NaN/100 votes#1 - Hawaii: Crucible of Life
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 1/18/1983
This land of fire and beauty is the most isolated island chain in the world. NOVA cameras uncover an extraordinary world far from the teeming tourist hotels, one filled with unique life forms, but also scarred by tragic extinction.
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- 8.3/1048 votes
#2 - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 1/25/1983
NOVA captivates a remarkably candid portrait of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, a man of few pretensions and tremendous personal charm, who speaks with the same passion about a child's toy wagon and the frontiers of subatomic physics.
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#3 - Lassa Fever
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 2/8/1983
A gripping docudrama about a mysterious, highly lethal disease which struck a village in Nigeria in 1969, and the frustrating, seesaw battle against it. NOVA recounts how public health workers came perilously close to accidentally releasing a deadly virus in the US.
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- 7.4/1031 votes
#4 - The Miracle of Life
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 2/15/1983
NOVA presents the first film ever made of the incredible chain of events which turns a sperm and an egg into a newborn baby. Amazing photographic techniques give the viewers the feeling of being reduced to the size of cells, following the sperm on its perilous voyage toward the egg, and meeting protectors and enemies along the way—like Ulysses on a microscopic odyssey.
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#5 - Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 3/1/1983
Every 58 minutes between now and the end of the century, one American will die from asbestos exposure. NOVA turns its spotlight on the tragic consequences of asbestos use and on the current controversy over who is responsible.
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- 8.4/108 votes
#6 - City of Coral
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 3/8/1983
NOVA takes a spellbinding voyage through one of the world's most fascinating and colorful ecosystems: a coral reef, where the line between plants and animals is blurred, "rocks" move, eat and fight, fish farm, and weak animals borrow the shields and weapons of stronger ones.
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- 7.8/107 votes
#7 - Fat Chance in a Thin World
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 3/22/1983
"Why can't I lose weight?" It's a question many Americans ask themselves everyday. NOVA comes up with some surprising answers about weight and dieting that could have significant impact on our daily lives.
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#8 - Sixty Minutes to Meltdown
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 3/29/1983
The accident at Three Mile Island made front page news all over the world and rocked the entire nuclear power industry. In this special 90-minute broadcast, NOVA presents a docudrama chronicling the minute-by-minute events leading up to the accident and examines the questions raised about safety confronting nuclear power industry today.
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- 7.8/108 votes
#9 - Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales
Season 10 Episode 9 - Aired 10/11/1983
The dream of talking with animals has been with us for centuries. NOVA explores the latest research, from language experiments with dolphins and apes to studies of animal calls in the wild.
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#10 - The Artificial Heart
Season 10 Episode 10 - Aired 10/18/1983
Seattle dentist Barney Clark received the first artificial heart implant in 1982. He died in March 1983, having survived 112 days with the world's first permanent, pneumatic, totally artificial heart. NOVA follows the case with the surgeon, William DeVries, and looks at the prospects for this technology to save lives. It also explored the work of Dr. William F. Bernhard on the Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) ongoing at the Cardiovascular Surgical Research Laboratories, Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center.
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#11 - Talking Turtle
Season 10 Episode 11 - Aired 10/25/1983
NOVA looks at computers in the classroom through the eyes of MIT's Seymour Papert, father of the Turtle—a computerized robot that crawls on the floor and talks in versatile language even five-year-olds can learn.
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- 8.0/109 votes
#12 - Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial
Season 10 Episode 12 - Aired 11/1/1983
Remote tribes and exotic islanders have been made known to the world through the lens of anthropology. But in recent years, some of these people have begun to object. NOVA travels to Margaret Mead's Papua New Guinea and looks at anthropology from the other side.
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#13 - To Live Until You Die: The Work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Season 10 Episode 13 - Aired 11/8/1983
Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has become a legend in her lifetime for her work with the dying. For the first time on American television, her explorations with patients are captured in film, as NOVA presents an intimate portrait of the Swiss-born psychiatrist at work.
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- 7.8/1011 votes
#14 - A Magic Way of Going: The Story of Thoroughbreds
Season 10 Episode 14 - Aired 11/15/1983
Can the thoroughbred horse run any faster? NOVA examines the billion-dollar horse racing industry in its search for the magic combination of speed, stamina and the will to win.
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#15 - A Normal Face: The Wonders of Plastic Surgery
Season 10 Episode 15 - Aired 11/22/1983
When plastic surgeons repair the shattered face of a soldier or rescue a child from a disfiguring disease, the victory is more than skin-deep. NOVA looks at the history, heroes and miracles of plastic surgery in mending the accidents of war and birth.
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#16 - Captives of Care
Season 10 Episode 16 - Aired 11/29/1983
Patients at an Australian institution for the severely handicapped rebel against a pair of over-zealous custodians. This astonishing true story was filmed as a docudrama, written and performed by the patients themselves.
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- 8.2/108 votes
#17 - Twenty-Five Years in Space
Season 10 Episode 17 - Aired 12/6/1983
As the American space program celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, NOVA chronicles the effects of the space age on Earth, drawing on popular music, film and television archives from the last quarter of a century.
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- 8.0/1010 votes
#18 - Nuclear Strategy for Beginners
Season 10 Episode 18 - Aired 12/13/1983
Will nuclear weapons deter World War III or only make it more likely? NOVA explores the military strategies of the nuclear age, now that the challenge may no longer be to win global war but to prevent it.
Director: Robert Zalisk
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- NaN/100 votes
#19 - The Climate Crisis
Season 10 Episode 19 - Aired 12/20/1983
This summer's record temperatures may be one of the signs that the earth's atmosphere is warming up. NOVA looks at the climate predictions and hazard warnings for the next century, based on the effects of our soaring consumption of Fossil fuels.
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#20 - Eyes Over China
Season 10 Episode 20 - Aired 12/27/1983
NOVA documents a dramatic encounter in international medicine when an American plane lands in China—equipped with a state-of-the-art eye-operating theater—and two very different medical systems meet eyeball to eyeball.
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#21 - Alcoholism: Life Under The Influence
Season 10 Episode 21 - Aired 1/10/1984
In a culture laced with alcohol, the search for a scientific understanding of alcoholism is as complex as the disease. In an interdisciplinary report, NOVA looks at the many faces of alcoholism—medical, historical and social.
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The Best Episodes of NOVA Season 10
Every episode of NOVA Season 10 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of NOVA Season 10!
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Season 10 Ratings Summary
"Hawaii: Crucible of Life" is the best rated episode of "NOVA" season 10. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/18/1983. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out".