Surgeons have always been eager to help patients, even at the risk of killing them. NOVA looks at some of the excesses of surgery, and at how new drugs and technologies are rendering some operations obsolete.
Aired: Jan 19, 1988 Today's sophisticated fighter jets can almost fly themselves, but well-traine...
Aired: Jan 26, 1988 Julia Child introduces NOVA's behind-the-scenes look at how science aids in t...
Aired: Feb 2, 1988 Scientists investigate the frozen remains of members of the 19th century Fran...
Aired: Feb 9, 1988 Airplane fires are often deadly. NOVA looks at efforts to make fires aboard p...
5. Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial
Aired: Feb 23, 1988In part one of a two-part special presentation, NOVA reports on the trials to...
6. Battles in the War on Cancer: Breast Cancer - Turning the Tide
Aired: Mar 1, 1988Breast cancer claims the lives of four American women every hour. Jane Pauley...
7. The Mystery of the Master Builders
Aired: Mar 8, 1988Princeton professor and author Robert Mark tracks down the engineering secret...
Aired: Mar 15, 1988 It was a blustery day in December 1986, and the New England Coast was in the ...
Aired: Mar 22, 1988 NOVA explores the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor clerk from India who as...
10. Race for the Superconductor
Aired: Mar 29, 1988NOVA charts an electronics revolution in the making as Japan and the United S...
Aired: Apr 5, 1988 Most cases of polio in this country are caused by the vaccine designed to pre...
12. Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft (1)
Aired: Sep 6, 1988Part one of a four-part series on the pioneers of modern surgery relives the ...
13. Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart (2)
Aired: Sep 13, 1988Once unthinkable, open-heart surgery is now an everyday miracle. NOVA looks a...
14. Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old (3)
Aired: Sep 20, 1988From kidneys to hearts, NOVA examines the daring attempts to replace diseased...
15. Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife (4)
Aired: Sep 27, 1988Surgeons have always been eager to help patients, even at the risk of killing...
16. Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel?
Aired: Oct 4, 1988Science meets art in the controversial effort to restore Michelangelo's famou...
17. Can the Next President Win the Space Race?
Aired: Oct 11, 1988Thirty years after Sputnik, the United States space program is mired in uncer...
Aired: Oct 18, 1988 NOVA examines the troubling question of scientific fraud: How prevalent is it...
19. Who Shot President Kennedy?
Aired: Nov 15, 1988Using previously unavailable technology, NOVA probes the available evidence s...
Aired: Nov 22, 1988 Reliving a Greek myth takes an effort of mythic proportions, as NOVA reveals ...
Aired: Dec 6, 1988 The life of the shy, intelligent black bear in the wild-foraging, mating, pla...
22. Can We Make a Better Doctor?
Aired: Dec 13, 1988NOVA embarks on a 10-year project to profile—in its entirety—the education of...
Main Cast
Current Status: Returning Series
Network: PBS
Production Country: United States
Genres: Documentary
