NaN/100 votes#1 - Salmon on the Run
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/1982
NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creatures and examines how business and technology are changing the fishing industry—and the salmon itself.
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- 8.0/107 votes
#2 - Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/1982
NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jordan Carr. NOVA follows the pregnancy from the start, presenting the only view on American TV of the extraordinary medical procedures used to remove and fertilize the egg, and of the historic birth, 28 December 1981 in Norfolk, VA.
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#3 - Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/1982
NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a pivotal role in turning birdwatching into a mass sport.
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#4 - The Hunt for the Legion Killer
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/1982
One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independence celebrations in Philadelphia in 1976: Legionnaires' disease. NOVA traces the search for a cause and cure—a search bedeviled by false trails, accusations of incompetence and cover-up, and increasing urgency as the death toll mounted.
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#5 - Finding a Voice
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/1982
What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick Boydell—born with cerebral palsy, confined to a wheelchair and unable for 30 years to say more than "yes" or "no" and investigates some of the new technology that gives the speechless a "voice."
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#6 - The Television Explosion
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/1982
NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including the potential of cable, the Columbus, Ohio, two-way TV experiment, the array of new techniques and their potential social impact. Will the new video technology let people see what they really want, rather than what the networks want?
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#7 - Life: Patent Pending
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 2/28/1982
NOVA shows how scientists go about creating new forms of life, and investigates the impact of the gene bonanza on industry, medicine, and the universities themselves. NOVA reveals that other countries are plowing far more resources than the US into the burgeoning industry.
Director: Robert Zalisk
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- NaN/100 votes
#8 - Palace of Delights
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 3/7/1982
NOVA visits San Francisco's Exploratorium—part laboratory, part school, part three-ring circus—run by an unlikely collection of physicists and high school students.
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#9 - Animal Impostors
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 3/14/1982
In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish, turtles and many other kinds of animals, both predators and their intended victims, use remarkable forms of deception to achieve their goal: to eat, or avoid being eaten.
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#10 - Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 3/28/1982
What is aging? Why does it happen? Can it be stopped? NOVA presents a startling report on research into the processes which make us age and how to control them.
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- 8.4/107 votes
#11 - The Case of the UFOs
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 10/12/1982
For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of Unidentified flying objects. With vivid film and accounts from several eyewitnesses including astronauts, NOVA sifts the evidence for and against the existence of UFOs.
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#12 - The Fragile Mountain
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 10/19/1982
The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making them crumble, and people are the victims, as NOVA reveals in this breathtaking documentary.
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- 7.0/108 votes
#13 - Here's Looking At You Kid
Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 11/9/1982
Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe Burns, one-third are children. NOVA tells the story of extraordinary personal resilience in an 11-year-old boy's fight to recover from burns suffered over 73 percent of his body.
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#14 - Adventures of Teenage Scientists
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 11/16/1982
NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests range from silkworms to solar cells. With education facing a deepening financial crisis, will this year's group of well-trained young scientists be among the last of the best and the brightest?
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#15 - The Cobalt Blues
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 11/23/1982
An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic minerals, vital to the aerospace and steel industries, which examines and questions Reagan Administration policies toward those international sources.
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#16 - Goodbye Louisiana
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 11/30/1982
NOVA reports on the staggering water problems of Southern Louisiana—where the mighty Mississippi is threatening to change its course, and where last year 49 square miles of coastline disappeared into the Gulf of Mexico.
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#17 - Whale Watch
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 12/7/1982
NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from the Arctic to the Mexican coast and reveals little known facts about the mating and feeding habits of the gentle giants.
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#18 - Tracking The Supertrains
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 12/14/1982
While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles per hour. NOVA reports that the super-fast trains are finally coming to America.
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#19 - The Making of a Natural History Film
Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 1/4/1983
To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA program every aired, a fascinating and delightful program about how wildlife films are made.
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The Best Episodes of NOVA Season 9
Every episode of NOVA Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of NOVA Season 9!
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights...
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Season 9 Ratings Summary
"Salmon on the Run" is the best rated episode of "NOVA" season 9. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/10/1982. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy".