The true story of smallpox and the successful campaign to eradicate the virus from the world. Telling the story of the long history of smallpox. How vaccination using Cowpox was started in England in the 1790s. Using circular vaccination...
Aired: Jan 4, 1976 It is now possible to predict earthquakes. At least two successful prediction...
Aired: Jan 11, 1976 NOVA takes viewers into the world of Joey Deacon, 54 years old and a spastic ...
Aired: Jan 18, 1976 What do singer Peggy Lee, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath and Congressma...
Aired: Jan 25, 1976 The last fourteen years have been a revolution in our understanding of our pl...
Aired: Feb 1, 1976 NOVA explores the mysterious ecosystem of the desert: a snowstorm; a lashing ...
Aired: Feb 8, 1976 Every year, some 5,000 babies are born in the US with spina bifida, a congeni...
Aired: Feb 15, 1976 There's one place on earth where no one will ever catch a cold. And the freez...
8. The Race for the Double Helix
Aired: Mar 7, 1976Author Isaac Asimov joins NOVA in the retelling of the remarkable story of th...
Aired: Mar 7, 1976 Each Sunday edition of the New York Times consumes 153 acres of trees. The pa...
Aired: Mar 14, 1976 NOVA joins chief archaeologist, Ivor Noel Hume, of Colonial Williamsburg, VA,...
Aired: Mar 21, 1976 Today we take antibiotics for granted, and by doing so are steadily eroding t...
Aired: Apr 11, 1976 Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford University has performed more heart transplant...
Aired: Apr 18, 1976 NOVA explores life underground, from foxes and badgers through moles and worm...
Aired: May 2, 1976 NOVA shows the Netsilik eskimoes of Pelly Bay and their traditional way of li...
Aired: May 9, 1976 Benjamin is a healthy, normal baby, whom we meet at birth and whose first yea...
Aired: May 23, 1976 Margaret Sanger was responsible almost single-handedly for changing the whole...
Aired: Jun 6, 1976 The true story of smallpox and the successful campaign to eradicate the virus...
Aired: Jun 13, 1976 The "Jaws" phenomenon has given sharks a bad name. But is the shark really su...
Aired: Jun 20, 1976 Recent scientific developments have made it possible to detect a wide variety...
20. The Case of the Bermuda Triangle
Aired: Jun 27, 1976Since 1945, hundreds of ships and planes and thousands of people have mysteri...
