NOVA Season 1

Right now you can watch NOVA Season 1 on and — and it earns the access it was given. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. Its 7/10 TMDB score, built from 140 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Worth watching in order, from the beginning — the cumulative effect is the point. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

NOVA Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The access NOVA Season 1 gets is remarkable — and the storytelling does full justice to it. Season 1 of NOVA includes 13 episodes. It aired from March 1974 to May 1974. Episodes include "The Making Of A Natural History Film", "Where Did the Colorado Go?", "Whales, Dolphins, and Men". It was aired in 1974. What elevates NOVA Season 1 above most documentary work is a refusal to settle for the easy version of the story. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Anyone after documentary work that genuinely informs rather than confirms will value NOVA Season 1. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. The access the production gets is remarkable, and the storytelling does full justice to it. Worth watching in order, from the beginning.

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🎬 NOVA Season 1 — Episode Guide

The Making Of A Natural History Film

1974-03-03

NOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it tackles such problems as filming a wood-wasp laying its egg inside trees, the hatching of a chick and the courtship rituals of the stickleback.

Where Did the Colorado Go?

1974-03-10

NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water and electricity to the farms and cities of California, Nevada, and Arizona. The program examines the political expediency and technological over-optimism that has led to some major miscalc...

Whales, Dolphins, and Men

1974-03-17

NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury of this intelligent mammal of the sea.

The Search For Life

1974-03-24

Does life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to find out just that. NOVA explores how life started on Earth and examines the Viking Lander being built in its germ-free room before starting its long journey.

Last of the Cuiva

1974-03-31

How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA looks at both sides of the story, revealing the misunderstandings between the two cultures.

Strange Sleep

1974-04-07

Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody and completely unable to deal with internal disorders, subsequently took its place in the front rank of medical practice. This NOVA docudrama depicts the pioneers of medicine.

The Crab Nebula

1974-04-14

In 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three weeks, even during the day. It was the explosion of a dying star that was bigger than our sun. NOVA explores this mysterious explosion that led to the discovery of Crab Nebula.

Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation

1974-04-21

Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar to track and identify migrating birds that travel at night, focusing on how they coose routes tat avoid bad weather and make the best of prevailing winds—information that can aid mete...

Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?

1974-04-28

The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either the healthy or the sick. Yet such procedures are often dangerous, and may not be of direct benefit to the subject. NOVA examines how individuals' interests are safeguarded, and asks, ...

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The First Signs Of Washoe

1974-05-05

Washoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teachers—Professor Allen Gardner and Dr. Trixie Gardner—to learn more about this unusual animal.

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The Case of the Midwife Toad

1974-05-12

When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of guilt that he had faked his experiments purporting to show the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Arthur Koestler joins NOVA in an in-depth examination of Kammerer's infamous exp...

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Fusion: The Energy of Promise

1974-05-19

Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved one of the most difficult and elusive goals of the physicist. NOVA tells the story of the twists and turns and the international competition along the road toward the achievement of fusion; an...

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The Mystery Of The Anasazi

1974-05-26

Who were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North America? They were the Anasazi Indians, who lived in the Southwest for some eight or nine thousand years and who then, in about 1300 AD, abruptly abandoned their cities and apparently disappeared. NOVA trac...

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