1. Halley's Comet: Once in a Lifetime
Aired: Jan 21, 1986 NOVA observes worldwide preparations as amateur comet hunters, astronomers an...
2. Goddess of the Earth: Gaia
Aired: Jan 28, 1986 Gaia, the Greek word for Earth goddess, also is the name of the controversial...
3. Horsemen of China
Aired: Feb 4, 1986 For centuries, the Chinese Kazakh horseman preserved their ancient traditions...
4. Life's First Feelings
Aired: Feb 11, 1986 NOVA explores the incredibly complex emotional development of infants and exa...
5. The Case of the Frozen Addict
Aired: Feb 18, 1986 In July 1982, a 42-year-old addict in a San Jose, California jail became para...
6. Toxic Trials
Aired: Feb 25, 1986 When a high number of cancer cases struck the suburban community of Woburn, M...
7. Skydive to the Rain Forest
Aired: Mar 4, 1986 NOVA journeys to a remote region of southern Venezuela where the land is aliv...
8. Return of the Osprey
Aired: Mar 11, 1986 NOVA follows a conservation success story as environmentalists, scientists an...
9. The Rise of a Wonder Drug
Aired: Mar 18, 1986 When Alexander Fleming discovered the penicillin mold in 1928, he never consi...
10. When Wonder Drugs Don't Work
Aired: Mar 25, 1986 NOVA examines the medical community's alarm as the spread of antibiotic-resis...
11. Visions of Star Wars
Aired: Apr 22, 1986 NOVA and Frontline combine resources to explore the Strategic Defense Initiat...
12. The Search for the Disappeared
Aired: Oct 14, 1986 Shows the exhumation and study of the frozen remains of expedition members fo...
13. The Planet that Got Knocked on its Side
Aired: Oct 21, 1986 The adventures of the Voyager 2 spacecraft continue as it passes the rings of...
14. High-Tech Babies
Aired: Nov 4, 1986 Scientific breakthroughs now make it possible to reproduce ourselves in ways ...
15. Can AIDS Be Stopped?
Aired: Nov 11, 1986 Alzheimer's disease ravages the minds of over 40 million victims worldwide. T...
16. Is Anybody Out There?
Aired: Nov 18, 1986 Could there be life beyond Earth? Only recently has it become possible to sca...
17. The Mystery of the Animal Pathfinders
Aired: Nov 25, 1986 Birds do it; bees do it, butterflies, bats and eels do it—all leave one habit...
18. Are You Swimming in a Sewer?
Aired: Dec 2, 1986 NOVA dips into the sad plight of our coastal waters, where toxic chemicals, r...
19. Sail Wars!
Aired: Dec 9, 1986 Yankee ingenuity has designs on the America's Cup. NOVA goes behind-the-scene...
20. Leprosy Can Be Cured!
Aired: Dec 16, 1986 Leprosy, a misunderstood disease that has been curable for 40 years, still af...
21. How Babies Get Made
Aired: Jan 13, 1987 NOVA explores the ground-breaking experiments that led to the discovery of a ...
