1. Salmon on the Run
Aired: Jan 10, 1982 NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creat...
2. Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter for Judy
Aired: Jan 17, 1982 NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born i...
3. A Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson
Aired: Jan 24, 1982 NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-sellin...
4. The Hunt for the Legion Killer
Aired: Jan 31, 1982 One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious ...
5. Finding a Voice
Aired: Feb 7, 1982 What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the ...
6. The Television Explosion
Aired: Feb 14, 1982 NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including ...
7. Life: Patent Pending
Aired: Feb 28, 1982 Supreme Court ruling on the patentability of life in the context of the recom...
8. Palace of Delights
Aired: Mar 7, 1982 NOVA visits San Francisco's Exploratorium—part laboratory, part school, part ...
9. Animal Impostors
Aired: Mar 14, 1982 In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how sna...
10. Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome
Aired: Mar 28, 1982 What is aging? Why does it happen? Can it be stopped? NOVA presents a startli...
11. The Case of the UFOs
Aired: Oct 12, 1982 For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into th...
12. The Fragile Mountain
Aired: Oct 19, 1982 The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making t...
13. Here's Looking at You Kid
Aired: Nov 9, 1982 Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe Burns, one-third are...
14. Adventures of Teenage Scientists
Aired: Nov 16, 1982 NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent S...
15. The Cobalt Blues
Aired: Nov 23, 1982 An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic mine...
16. Goodbye Louisiana
Aired: Nov 30, 1982 Documents the loss of Louisiana coastlines.
17. Whale Watch
Aired: Dec 7, 1982 NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from...
18. Tracking the Supertrains
Aired: Dec 14, 1982 While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Eur...
19. The Making of a Natural History Film
Aired: Jan 4, 1983 To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA prog...