• Premiered: Mar 1974
  • Episodes: 1033
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Season 25
25x1
Night Creatures of the Kalahari
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Air date
Jan 06, 1998
Beneath the grassland plains of the Kalahari lies a hidden world of rare and exotic animals. By day, the Kalahari belongs to familiar predators and grazing animals. At night, the earth .. show full overview
25x2
Mysterious Mummies of China
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Jan 20, 1998
Perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies have been unearthed in a remote Chinese desert. They have long, blonde hair and blue eyes, and don't appear to be the ancestors of the .. show full overview
25x3
Supersonic Spies
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Jan 27, 1998
The race to build the world's first supersonic passenger airliner led to a massive espionage effort during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the west. The Soviets started years .. show full overview
25x4
Animal Hospital
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Air date
Feb 03, 1998
Tapping into the clearly demonstrated affection we all have for our pets, this program will offer an offbeat, sometimes humorous, sometimes sad portrait of pets, their owners, and the .. show full overview
25x5
The Brain Eater
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Feb 10, 1998
In this scientific mystery, NOVA ventures to the front lines of medical research where scientists are scrambling to understand the strange new ailment popularly known as "mad cow .. show full overview
25x6
Everest - The Death Zone
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Feb 24, 1998
NOVA treks with a group of Himalayan climbers in their quest to reach the summit of Everest, along the way exploring in never-before-conducted tests how extremes of weather and altitude .. show full overview
25x7
Search for the Lost Cave People
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Air date
Mar 31, 1998
NOVA follows an international team of archaeologists and spelunkers into the Rio la Venta Gorge deep in the Chiapas jungle of Central America. In a rugged canyon they find caves filled .. show full overview
25x8
Warnings from the Ice
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Apr 21, 1998
Could the earth as we know it be about to drown? Huge ice sheets in Antarctica may be in the process of collapse, triggering a catastrophic rise in sea level that will inundate the most .. show full overview
25x9
Crocodiles!
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Apr 28, 1998
An unprecedented look at a dangerous predator, this is the second of three natural history programs hosted by Sir David Attenborough. Surviving virtually unchanged since the days of the .. show full overview
25x10
The Truth About Impotence
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May 12, 1998
NOVA reports on new hope for victims of erectile dysfunction, also known as impotence. Among the promising therapies covered in the program are ones developed by Dr. Irwin Goldstein of .. show full overview
25x11
Lost At Sea: The Search For Longitude
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Oct 06, 1998
In 1714, following a maritime disaster, British Parliament offers £20,000 for the first reliable method of determining longitude on a ship at sea. It's known that longitude can be found .. show full overview
25x12
Chasing El Niño
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Oct 13, 1998
A massive planet-sized machine controls our weather day-to-day, and our climate season-to-season. It takes an event of staggering proportions to disrupt a machine this large and .. show full overview
25x13
Terror In Space
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Oct 27, 1998
Experience the harrowing and life-threatening problems aboard the aging Mir space station through the eyes of the Russian and American astronauts who lived through them. Feel the heat .. show full overview
25x14
Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond
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Air date
Nov 03, 1998
NOVA goes behind the scenes in Hollywood, where the art of illusion meets the science of perception.
25x15
Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius
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Air date
Nov 10, 1998
The shattered remnants of the Roman city of Pompeii bear witness to the risk that the people of Naples still face today.
25x16
Ice Mummies (1): Frozen In Heaven
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Air date
Nov 24, 1998
This is the bizarre and fascinating story of the remains of Inca culture, frozen for posterity high in the mountains of the Andes. Evidence has emerged of sacrifice to the mountain gods, .. show full overview
25x17
Ice Mummies (2): Siberian Ice Maiden
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Nov 24, 1998
The Siberian Ice Maiden, discovered in the Pastures of Heaven, on the high Steppes, is believed to have been a shamaness of the lost Pazyryk culture. She had been mummified and then .. show full overview
25x18
Ice Mummies (3): Return of the Iceman
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Nov 24, 1998
Cutting-edge science and archaeology are reconstructing the life and culture of The Iceman—the 5000-year-old frozen corpse found buried in the ice of the Alps. By analyzing every inch of .. show full overview
25x19
Leopards of the Night
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Dec 01, 1998
Night stalkers by nature, leopards are observed both by night and day, using state-of-the-art camera equipment, to reveal never before seen hunting behavior. Filmed in the Luangua Valley .. show full overview
25x20 Season finale
The Perfect Pearl
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Dec 29, 1998
The pearl—the only gem produced by a living animal—has long carried a certain allure. Yet the best mollusk for making this gem—the pearl oyster—doesn't always produce a pearl, and even .. show full overview

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