Nova

Season 3 Episode 4: The Planets

51 Seasons Jan 25, 1976 TV-PG 55m 7.6

The last fourteen years have been a revolution in our understanding of our place in the stars, the Solar System. Beginning in 1961 with a Russian spacecraft flying to Venus, quickening with the Apollo manned missions to the Moon, it came of age in the Spring of 1974, when there were six spacecrafts traveling simultaneously from the Earth to the planets. NOVA looks at the era of manned and unmanned exploration of the Solar System.

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Season 3 Episodes:

Episode 1 Predictable Disaster

1. Predictable Disaster

Aired: Jan 4, 1976

It is now possible to predict earthquakes. At least two successful prediction...

Episode 2 Joey

2. Joey

Aired: Jan 11, 1976

NOVA takes viewers into the world of Joey Deacon, 54 years old and a spastic ...

Episode 4 The Planets

4. The Planets

Aired: Jan 25, 1976

The last fourteen years have been a revolution in our understanding of our pl...

Episode 5 A Desert Place

5. A Desert Place

Aired: Feb 1, 1976

NOVA explores the mysterious ecosystem of the desert: a snowstorm; a lashing ...

Episode 6 A Small Imperfection

6. A Small Imperfection

Aired: Feb 8, 1976

Every year, some 5,000 babies are born in the US with spina bifida, a congeni...

Episode 7 Ninety Degrees Below

7. Ninety Degrees Below

Aired: Feb 15, 1976

There's one place on earth where no one will ever catch a cold. And the freez...

Episode 9 The Renewable Tree

9. The Renewable Tree

Aired: Mar 7, 1976

Each Sunday edition of the New York Times consumes 153 acres of trees. The pa...

Episode 14 Hunters of the Seal

14. Hunters of the Seal

Aired: May 2, 1976

NOVA shows the Netsilik eskimoes of Pelly Bay and their traditional way of li...

Episode 15 Benjamin

15. Benjamin

Aired: May 9, 1976

Benjamin is a healthy, normal baby, whom we meet at birth and whose first yea...

Episode 16 The Women Rebel

16. The Women Rebel

Aired: May 23, 1976

Margaret Sanger was responsible almost single-handedly for changing the whole...

Episode 17 Death of a Disease

17. Death of a Disease

Aired: Jun 6, 1976

The true story of smallpox and the successful campaign to eradicate the virus...

Episode 18 Inside the Shark

18. Inside the Shark

Aired: Jun 13, 1976

The "Jaws" phenomenon has given sharks a bad name. But is the shark really su...

Episode 19 The Genetic Chance

19. The Genetic Chance

Aired: Jun 20, 1976

Recent scientific developments have made it possible to detect a wide variety...


Info about Nova

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Genres: Documentary