NOVA brings you stories from the frontlines of science and engineering, answering the big questions of today and tomorrow, from how our ancestors lived, to whether parallel universes exist, to how technology will transform our lives.
NOVA brings you stories from the frontlines of science and engineering, answering the big questions of today and tomorrow, from how our ancestors lived, to whether parallel universes exist, to how technology will transform our lives.
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Seasons (53)
Season 1
3 Mar 1974 – 26 May 1974 · 13 episodes
1The Making of a Natural History Film3 Mar 1974
2Where Did the Colorado Go?10 Mar 1974
3Whales, Dolphins, and Men17 Mar 1974
4The Search for Life24 Mar 1974
5Last of the Cuiva31 Mar 1974
6Strange Sleep7 Apr 1974
7The Crab Nebula14 Apr 1974
8Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation21 Apr 1974
9Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?28 Apr 1974
10The First Signs of Washoe5 May 1974
11The Case of the Midwife Toad12 May 1974
12Fusion: The Energy of Promise19 May 1974
13The Mystery of the Anasazi26 May 1974
Season 2
3 Nov 1974 – 6 Apr 1975 · 17 episodes
1Why Do Birds Sing?3 Nov 1974
2How Much Do You Smell?10 Nov 1974
3The Hunting of the Quark17 Nov 1974
4The Secrets of Sleep24 Nov 1974
5Inside the Golden Gate1 Dec 1974
6The Men Who Painted Caves8 Dec 1974
7Red Sea Coral15 Dec 1974
8War from the Air5 Jan 1975
9What Time Is Your Body?12 Jan 1975
10The Rise and Fall of DDT19 Jan 1975
11Take the World from Another Point of View2 Feb 1975
12The Lysenko Affair9 Feb 1975
13The Tuaregs16 Feb 1975
14The Plutonium Connection9 Mar 1975
15The Other Way16 Mar 1975
16The Lost World of the Maya30 Mar 1975
17Will the Fishing Have to Stop?6 Apr 1975
Season 3
4 Jan 1976 – 27 Jun 1976 · 20 episodes
1Predictable Disaster4 Jan 1976
2Joey11 Jan 1976
3Meditation and the Mind18 Jan 1976
4The Planets25 Jan 1976
5A Desert Place1 Feb 1976
6A Small Imperfection8 Feb 1976
7Ninety Degrees Below15 Feb 1976
8The Race for the Double Helix7 Mar 1976
9The Renewable Tree7 Mar 1976
10The Williamsburgh File14 Mar 1976
11The Overworked Miracle21 Mar 1976
12The Transplant Experiment11 Apr 1976
13The Underground Movement18 Apr 1976
14Hunters of the Seal2 May 1976
15Benjamin9 May 1976
16The Women Rebel23 May 1976
17Death of a Disease6 Jun 1976
18Inside the Shark13 Jun 1976
19The Genetic Chance20 Jun 1976
20The Case of the Bermuda Triangle27 Jun 1976
Season 4
5 Jan 1977 – 11 Jan 1978 · 20 episodes
1Hitler's Secret Weapon5 Jan 1977
2The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs12 Jan 1977
3What Price Coal?19 Jan 1977
4The Sunspot Mystery2 Feb 1977
5The Plastic Prison9 Feb 1977
6Incident at Brown's Ferry23 Feb 1977
7Bye Bye Blackbird2 Mar 1977
8The Pill for the People9 Mar 1977
9The Gene Engineers16 Mar 1977
10The Human Animal23 Mar 1977
11The Wolf Equation30 Mar 1977
12The Dawn of the Solar Age20 Apr 1977
13The Business of Extinction20 Apr 1977
14The Red Planet27 Apr 1977
15Tongues of Men (1)11 May 1977
16Tongues of Men (2)18 May 1977
17Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist1 Jun 1977
18Across the Silent Barrier22 Jun 1977
19The New Healers29 Jun 1977
20The Green Machine11 Jan 1978
Season 5
4 Jan 1978 – 28 Jun 1978 · 20 episodes
1In the Event of Catastrophe4 Jan 1978
2Blueprints in the Bloodstream18 Jan 1978
3One Small Step (1)25 Jan 1978
4The Final Frontier (2)1 Feb 1978
5BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest15 Feb 1978
6Trial of Denton Cooley22 Feb 1978
7The Great Wine Revolution1 Mar 1978
8The Case of the Ancient Astronauts8 Mar 1978
9The Mind Machines22 Mar 1978
10Icarus' Children29 Mar 1978
11Still Waters12 Apr 1978
12Battle for the Acropolis19 Apr 1978
13Road to Happiness3 May 1978
14Light of the 21st Century10 May 1978
15The Insect Alternative24 May 1978
16The Desert's Edge31 May 1978
17The Tse Tse Trap7 Jun 1978
18Memories from Eden14 Jun 1978
19A Whisper from Space21 Jun 1978
20Alaska: The Closing Frontier28 Jun 1978
Season 6
4 Jan 1979 – 18 Dec 1979 · 19 episodes
1Black Tide4 Jan 1979
2Long Walk of Fred Young11 Jan 1979
3A World of Difference18 Jan 1979
4Cashing in on the Ocean1 Feb 1979
5Patterns from the Past8 Feb 1979
6The Invisible Flame22 Feb 1979
7The End of the Rainbow1 Mar 1979
8The Beersheva Experiment8 Mar 1979
9Einstein15 Mar 1979
10The Keys of Paradise29 Mar 1979
11A Plague on our Children2 Oct 1979
12Life on a Silken Thread9 Oct 1979
13Sweet Solutions16 Oct 1979
14Race for the Gold30 Oct 1979
15All Part of the Game6 Nov 1979
16India: Machinery of Hope20 Nov 1979
17The Bridge that Spanned the World4 Dec 1979
18Termites to Telescopes11 Dec 1979
19Blindness: Five Points of Views18 Dec 1979
Season 7
15 Jan 1980 – 30 Dec 1980 · 20 episodes
1The Elusive Illness15 Jan 1980
2A is for Atom, B is for Bomb22 Jan 1980
3Living Machines5 Feb 1980
4Portrait of a Killer19 Feb 1980
5Umealit: The Whale Hunters4 Mar 1980
6The Safety Factor11 Mar 1980
7A Mediterranean Prospect18 Mar 1980
8Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland25 Mar 1980
9The Pinks and the Blues30 Sep 1980
10The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian7 Oct 1980
11The Sea Behind the Dunes14 Oct 1980
12Do We Really Need the Rockies?28 Oct 1980
13The Big IF4 Nov 1980
14Voyager: Jupiter & Beyond11 Nov 1980
15The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor18 Nov 1980
16The Water Crisis25 Nov 1980
17Moving Still2 Dec 1980
18A Touch of Sensitivity9 Dec 1980
19The Red Deer of Rhum23 Dec 1980
20It's About Time30 Dec 1980
Season 8
6 Jan 1981 – 6 Dec 1981 · 20 episodes
1Doctors of Nigeria6 Jan 1981
2Message in the Rocks20 Jan 1981
3The Dead Sea Lives27 Jan 1981
4Anatomy of a Volcano10 Feb 1981
5The Science of Murder17 Feb 1981
6The Malady of Health Care24 Feb 1981
7Beyond the Milky Way3 Mar 1981
8The Asteroid and the Dinosaur10 Mar 1981
9Animal Olympians17 Mar 1981
10Resolution on Saturn28 Aug 1981
11Computers, Spies & Private LIves27 Sep 1981
12Why America Burns4 Oct 1981
13The Great Violin Mystery11 Oct 1981
14Cosmic Fire18 Oct 1981
15Locusts: War Without End25 Oct 1981
16Did Darwin Get It Wrong?1 Nov 1981
17Artists in the Lab15 Nov 1981
18Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas22 Nov 1981
19City Spaces, Human Places29 Nov 1981
20Twins6 Dec 1981
Season 9
10 Jan 1982 – 14 Dec 1982 · 18 episodes
1Salmon on the Run10 Jan 1982
2Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter for Judy17 Jan 1982
3Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson24 Jan 1982
4The Hunt for the Legion Killer31 Jan 1982
5Finding a Voice7 Feb 1982
6The Television Explosion14 Feb 1982
7Life: Patent Pending28 Feb 1982
8Palace of Delights7 Mar 1982
9Animal Imposters14 Mar 1982
10Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome28 Mar 1982
11The Case of the UFOs12 Oct 1982
12The Fragile Mountain19 Oct 1982
13Here's Looking at You Kid9 Nov 1982
14Adventures of Teenage Scientists16 Nov 1982
15The Cobalt Blues23 Nov 1982
16Goodbye Louisiana30 Nov 1982
17Whale Watch7 Dec 1982
18Tracking the Supertrains14 Dec 1982
Season 10
18 Jan 1983 – 10 Jan 1984 · 21 episodes
1Hawaii: Crucible of Life18 Jan 1983
2The Pleasure of Finding Things Out25 Jan 1983
3Lassa Fever8 Feb 1983
4The Miracle of Life15 Feb 1983
5Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy1 Mar 1983
6City of Coral8 Mar 1983
7Fat Chance in a Thin World22 Mar 1983
8Sixty Minutes to Meltdown29 Mar 1983
9Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales11 Oct 1983
10The Artificial Heart18 Oct 1983
11Talking Turtle25 Oct 1983
12Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial1 Nov 1983
13To Live Until You Die: The Work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross8 Nov 1983
14A Magic Way of Going: The Story of Thoroughbreds15 Nov 1983
15A Normal Face: The Wonders of Plastic Surgery22 Nov 1983
16Captives of Care25 Nov 1983
17Twenty-Five Years in Space6 Dec 1983
18Nuclear Strategy for Beginners13 Dec 1983
19The Climate Crisis20 Dec 1983
20Eyes Over China27 Dec 1983
21Alcoholism: Life Under the Influence10 Jan 1984
Season 11
17 Jan 1984 – 8 Jan 1985 · 20 episodes
1The Case of ESP17 Jan 1984
2Antarctica: Earth's Last Frontier31 Jan 1984
3China's Only Child14 Feb 1984
4Will I Walk Again?28 Feb 1984
5Visions of the Deep: The Underwater World of Al Giddings6 Mar 1984
6Down on the Farm20 Mar 1984
7Make My People Live: The Crisis in Indian Health Care27 Mar 1984
8The World According to Weiskoff30 Apr 1984
9Space Bridge to Moscow2 Oct 1984
10The National Science Test I16 Oct 1984
11Fountains of Paradise20 Oct 1984
12The Mystery of Yellow Rain30 Oct 1984
13The Nomads of the Rain Forest6 Nov 1984
14Farmers of the Sea13 Nov 1984
15Frontiers of Plastic Surgery20 Nov 1984
16Space Women27 Nov 1984
17Jaws: The True Story4 Dec 1984
18Acid Rain: New Bad News11 Dec 1984
19Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life18 Dec 1984
20The Garden of Inheritance8 Jan 1985
Season 12
15 Jan 1985 – 17 Dec 1985 · 20 episodes
1Edgerton and His Incredible Seeing Machines15 Jan 1985
2Global Village22 Jan 1985
3Conquest of the Parasites29 Jan 1985
4In the Land of the Polar Bears5 Feb 1985
5AIDS: Chapter One12 Feb 1985
6The Shape of Things19 Feb 1985
7Baby Talk26 Feb 1985
8The Mathematical Mystery Tour5 Mar 1985
9Child's Play: Prodigies and Possibilities12 Mar 1985
10Monarch of the Mountains19 Mar 1985
11The National Science Test II8 Oct 1985
12Seeds of Tomorrow15 Oct 1985
13What Einstein Never Knew22 Oct 1985
14The Robot Revolution?29 Oct 1985
15The Magic of Special Effects5 Nov 1985
16Child Survival: The Silent Emergency12 Nov 1985
17Tornado!19 Nov 1985
18The Genetic Gamble26 Nov 1985
19Animal Architects3 Dec 1985
20The Plane that Changed the World17 Dec 1985
Season 13
21 Jan 1986 – 13 Jan 1987 · 21 episodes
1Halley's Comet: Once in a Lifetime21 Jan 1986
2Goddess of the Earth28 Jan 1986
3Horsemen of China4 Feb 1986
4Life's First Feelings11 Feb 1986
5The Case of the Frozen Addict18 Feb 1986
6Toxic Trials25 Feb 1986
7Skydive to the Rain Forest4 Mar 1986
8Return of the Osprey11 Mar 1986
9The Rise of a Wonder Drug18 Mar 1986
10When Wonder Drugs Don't Work25 Mar 1986
11Visions of Star Wars22 Apr 1986
12The Search for the Disappeared14 Oct 1986
13The Planet that Got Knocked on its Side21 Oct 1986
14High-Tech Babies4 Nov 1986
15Can AIDS Be Stopped?11 Nov 1986
16Is Anybody Out There?18 Nov 1986
17Mystery of the Animal Pathfinders25 Nov 1986
18Are You Swimming in a Sewer?2 Dec 1986
19Sail Wars!9 Dec 1986
20Leprosy Can Be Cured!16 Dec 1986
21How Babies Get Made13 Jan 1987
Season 14
20 Jan 1987 – 15 Dec 1987 · 21 episodes
1Countdown to the Invisible Universe20 Jan 1987
2Children of Eve27 Jan 1987
3Why Planes Crash3 Feb 1987
4Orangutans of the Rain Forest10 Feb 1987
5Freud Under Analysis17 Feb 1987
6The Hole in the Sky24 Feb 1987
7Confessions of a Weaponeer3 Mar 1987
8Great Moments from NOVA10 Mar 1987
9Will the World Starve?24 Mar 1987
10The Desert Doesn't Bloom Here Anymore31 Mar 1987
11Rocky Road to Jupiter7 Apr 1987
12Death of a Star6 Oct 1987
13Spy Machines13 Oct 1987
14Hidden Power of Plants20 Oct 1987
15Japan's American Genius27 Oct 1987
16A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama3 Nov 1987
17Volcano!10 Nov 1987
18How Good is Soviet Science?17 Nov 1987
19Ancient Treasures from the Deep1 Dec 1987
20Riddle of the Joints8 Dec 1987
21Secrets of the Lost Red Paint People15 Dec 1987
Season 15
19 Jan 1988 – 5 Apr 1988 · 11 episodes
1Top Gun and Beyond19 Jan 1988
12How to Create a Junk Food26 Jan 1988
13Buried in Ice2 Feb 1988
14Why Planes Burn9 Feb 1988
15Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial23 Feb 1988
16Battles in the War on Cancer: Breast Cancer - Turning the Tide1 Mar 1988
17Mystery of the Master Builders8 Mar 1988
18Whale Rescue15 Mar 1988
19The Man Who Loved Numbers22 Mar 1988
20Race for the Superconductor29 Mar 1988
21Can You Still Get Polio?5 Apr 1988
Season 16
6 Sep 1988 – 28 Mar 1989 · 21 episodes
1Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft6 Sep 1988
2Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart13 Sep 1988
3Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old20 Sep 1988
4Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife27 Sep 1988
5Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel?4 Oct 1988
6Can the Next President Win the Space Race?11 Oct 1988
7Do Scientists Cheat?25 Oct 1988
8Who Shot President Kennedy?15 Nov 1988
9The Light Stuff22 Nov 1988
10The All-American Bear6 Dec 1988
11Can We Make a Better Doctor?13 Dec 1988
12Hot Enough for You?17 Jan 1989
13The Last Journey of a Genius24 Jan 1989
14The Strange New Science of Chaos31 Jan 1989
15Back to Chernobyl14 Feb 1989
16God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs21 Feb 1989
17Adrift on the Gulf Stream28 Feb 1989
18Secrets of Easter Island (1)7 Mar 1989
19Legends of Easter Island (2)7 Mar 1989
20The World Is Full of Oil!21 Mar 1989
21Confronting the Killer Gene28 Mar 1989
Season 17
3 Oct 1989 – 3 Apr 1990 · 19 episodes
1The Hidden City3 Oct 1989
2The Controversial Dr. Koop10 Oct 1989
3Design Wars!17 Oct 1989
4Echoes of War24 Oct 1989
5Decoding the Book of Life31 Oct 1989
6Hurricane!7 Nov 1989
7Will Venice Survive Its Rescue14 Nov 1989
8What Is Music21 Nov 1989
9Yellowstone's Burning Question5 Dec 1989
10The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret12 Dec 1989
11Poison in the Rockies9 Jan 1990
12Race for the Top23 Jan 1990
13Disguises of War6 Feb 1990
14The Bomb's Lethal Legacy13 Feb 1990
15The Big Spill27 Feb 1990
16The Genius That Was China: Rise of the Dragon15 Mar 1990
17The Genius That Was China: Empires in Collision20 Mar 1990
18The Genius That Was China: The Threat from Japan27 Mar 1990
19The Genius That Was China: Will the Dragon Rise Again?3 Apr 1990
Season 18
3 Oct 1990 – 26 Mar 1991 · 21 episodes
1The KGB, The Computer and Me3 Oct 1990
2Neptune's Cold Fury9 Oct 1990
3To Boldly Go...16 Oct 1990
4Poisoned Winds of War23 Oct 1990
5The Blimp is Back!30 Oct 1990
6Earthquake!6 Nov 1990
7Killing Machines13 Nov 1990
8Can the Elephant Be Saved?20 Nov 1990
9We Know Where You Live27 Nov 1990
10In the Land of the Llamas4 Dec 1990
11What's Killing the Children?18 Dec 1990
12Return to Mt. St. Helens8 Jan 1991
13ConFusion in a Jar30 Apr 1991
14The Hunt for China's Dinosaurs5 Feb 1991
15Case of the Flying Dinosaur12 Feb 1991
16T-Rex Exposed19 Feb 1991
17The Russian Right Stuff: The Invisible Spaceman26 Feb 1991
18The Russian Right Stuff: The Dark Side of the Moon27 Feb 1991
19The Russian Right Stuff: The Mission28 Feb 1991
20Swimming with Whales5 Mar 1991
21The Chip vs. the Chessmaster26 Mar 1991
Season 19
1 Oct 1991 – 24 Mar 1992 · 18 episodes
1Sex, Lies and Toupee Tape1 Oct 1991
2So You Want to Be a Doctor?9 Oct 1991
3Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls15 Oct 1991
4Suicide Mission to Chernobyl22 Oct 1991
5Taller Than Everest?5 Nov 1991
6Fastest Planes in the Sky12 Nov 1991
7Avoiding the Surgeon's Knife3 Dec 1991
8Skyscraper! A NOVA Special10 Dec 1991
9The Fine Art of Faking It17 Dec 1991
10Hell Fighters of Kuwait14 Jan 1992
11Submarine!21 Jan 1992
12Saddam's War on Wildlife28 Jan 1992
13What Smells?11 Feb 1992
14Can You Believe TV Ratings?18 Feb 1992
15Making a Dishonest Buck3 Mar 1992
16Rescuing Baby Whales10 Mar 1992
17An Astronaut's View of the Earth17 Mar 1992
18Eclipse of the Century24 Mar 1992
Season 20
25 Aug 1992 – 30 Mar 1993 · 20 episodes
1Animal Olympians II25 Aug 1992
2The Genius Behind the Bomb29 Sep 1992
3Mind of a Serial Killer13 Oct 1992
4Search for the First Americans20 Oct 1992
5Rafting Through the Grand Canyon27 Oct 1992
6This Old Pyramid4 Nov 1992
7Iceman10 Nov 1992
8Private Lives of Dolphins17 Nov 1992
9Brain Transplant1 Dec 1992
10Can You Stop People from Drinking?22 Dec 1992
11Sex and the Single Rhino29 Dec 1992
12The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons5 Jan 1993
13Can Bombing Win a War?19 Jan 1993
14The Deadly Deception26 Jan 1993
15Nazis and the Russian Bomb2 Feb 1993
16In the Path of a Killer Volcano9 Feb 1993
17Can Science Build a Champion Athlete?16 Feb 1993
18Diving for Pirate Gold23 Feb 1993
19Murder, Rape and DNA2 Mar 1993
20The Lost Tribe30 Mar 1993
Season 21
5 Oct 1993 – 19 Apr 1994 · 21 episodes
1The NOVA Quiz5 Oct 1993
2Wanted: Butch and Sundance12 Oct 1993
3Secrets of the Psychics19 Oct 1993
4Dying to Breathe26 Oct 1993
5Shadow of the Condor2 Nov 1993
6The Real Jurassic Park9 Nov 1993
7Roller Coaster!16 Nov 1993
8Mysterious Crash of Flight 20130 Nov 1993
9Great Moments from NOVA7 Dec 1993
10The Best Mind Since Einstein21 Dec 1993
11Stranger in the Mirror28 Dec 1993
12Codebreakers18 Jan 1994
13Dinosaurs of the Gobi25 Jan 1994
14Daredevils of the Sky1 Feb 1994
15Journey to Kilimanjaro8 Feb 1994
16Can Chimps Talk?15 Feb 1994
17In Search of Human Origins, Part One28 Feb 1994
18In Search of Human Origins, Part Two1 Mar 1994
19In Search of Human Origins, Part Three2 Mar 1994
20Can China Kick the Habit?12 Apr 1994
21Aircraft Carrier!19 Apr 1994
Season 22
11 Oct 1994 – 23 May 1995 · 23 episodes
1The Great Wildlife Heist11 Oct 1994
2Secret of the Wild Child18 Oct 1994
3Haunted Cry of a Long Gone Bird25 Oct 1994
4What's New About Menopause1 Nov 1994
5The Tribe that Time Forgot8 Nov 1994
6Killer Quake!15 Nov 1994
7Buried in Ash29 Nov 1994
8Rescue Mission in Space6 Dec 1994
9Journey to the Sacred Sea20 Dec 1994
10In Search of the First Language27 Dec 1994
11Mammoths of the Ice Age9 Jan 1995
12Vikings in America24 Jan 1995
13Ants: Little Creatures Who Run the World31 Jan 1995
14Nazi Designers of Death7 Feb 1995
15Siamese Twins14 Feb 1995
16Mystery of the Senses: Hearing19 Feb 1995
17Mystery of the Senses: Smell20 Feb 1995
18Mystery of the Senses: Taste21 Feb 1995
19Mystery of the Senses: Touch22 Feb 1995
20Mystery of the Senses: Vision22 Feb 1995
21The Universe Within7 Mar 1995
22Making of a Doctor3 May 1995
23Fast Cars23 May 1995
Season 23
10 Oct 1995 – 16 Apr 1996 · 19 episodes
1Anastasia Dead or Alive?10 Oct 1995
2Venus Unveiled17 Oct 1995
3Hawaii Born of Fire24 Oct 1995
4The Doomsday Asteroid31 Oct 1995
5Lightning!7 Nov 1995
6Hunt for the Serial Arsonist14 Nov 1995
7Treasures of the Great Barrier Reef28 Nov 1995
8Race to Catch a Buckyball19 Dec 1995
9Can Buildings Make You Sick?26 Dec 1995
10Terror in the Mine Fields9 Jan 1996
11The Day the Earth Shook16 Jan 1996
12B-29 Frozen in Time30 Jan 1996
13Ebola: The Plague Fighters6 Feb 1996
14War Machines of Tomorrow20 Feb 1996
15Kidnapped by U.F.O.'s?27 Feb 1996
16Flood!26 Mar 1996
17Dr. Spock the Baby Doc2 Apr 1996
18Warriors of the Amazon9 Apr 1996
19Bombing of America16 Apr 1996
Season 24
1 Oct 1996 – 15 Apr 1997 · 20 episodes
1Einstein Revealed1 Oct 1996
2Lost City of Arabia8 Oct 1996
3Three Men and a Balloon15 Oct 1996
4Secrets of Making Money22 Oct 1996
5Top Gun Over Moscow12 Nov 1996
6Shark Attack19 Nov 1996
7Odyssey of Life: The Ultimate Journey24 Nov 1996
8Odyssey of Life: The Unknown World25 Nov 1996
9Odyssey of Life: The Photographer's Secrets26 Nov 1996
10Cracking the Ice Age31 Dec 1996
11Kaboom!14 Jan 1997
12Titanic's Lost Sister28 Jan 1997
13Secrets of Lost Empires (1): Stonehenge11 Feb 1997
14Secrets of Lost Empires (2): Inca11 Feb 1997
15Secrets of Lost Empires (3): Obelisk12 Feb 1997
16Secrets of Lost Empires (4): Colosseum12 Feb 1997
17Hunt for Alien Worlds18 Feb 1997
18Curse of T. Rex25 Feb 1997
19Cut to the Heart8 Apr 1997
20Kingdom of the Seahorse15 Apr 1997
Season 25
7 Oct 1997 – 12 May 1998 · 19 episodes
1Coma7 Oct 1997
2Faster Than Sound14 Oct 1997
3Bomb Squad21 Oct 1997
4The Proof28 Oct 1997
5Wild Wolves11 Nov 1997
6Super Bridge12 Nov 1997
7Treasures of a Sunken City18 Nov 1997
8Avalanche!25 Nov 1997
9Danger in the Jet Stream2 Dec 1997
10Night Creatures of the Kalahari6 Jan 1998
11Mysterious Mummies of China20 Jan 1998
12Supersonic Spies27 Jan 1998
13Animal Hospital3 Feb 1998
14The Brain Eater10 Feb 1998
15Everest - The Death Zone24 Feb 1998
16Search for the Lost Cave People31 Mar 1998
17Warnings from the Ice21 Apr 1998
18Crocodiles!28 Apr 1998
19The Truth About Impotence12 May 1998
Season 26
6 Oct 1998 – 13 Jul 1999 · 21 episodes
1Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude6 Oct 1998
2Chasing El Niño13 Oct 1998
3Terror in Space27 Oct 1998
4Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond3 Nov 1998
5Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius10 Nov 1998
6Ice Mummies (1): Frozen in Heaven24 Nov 1998
7Ice Mummies (2): Siberian Ice Maiden24 Nov 1998
8Ice Mummies (3): Return of the Iceman24 Nov 1998
9Leopards of the Night1 Dec 1998
10The Perfect Pearl29 Dec 1998
11The Beast of Loch Ness12 Jan 1999
12Submarines, Secrets & Spies19 Jan 1999
13Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvin6 Oct 1999
14Surviving AIDS2 Feb 1999
15Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Fire (1)16 Feb 1999
16Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Car Crash (2)16 Feb 1999
17Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Plane Crash (3)17 Feb 1999
18Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Abandon Ship (4)17 Feb 1999
19Battle Alert in the Gulf23 Feb 1999
20Volcanoes of the Deep30 Mar 1999
21To the Moon13 Jul 1999
Season 27
5 Oct 1999 – 9 May 2000 · 21 episodes
1Fall of the Leaning Tower5 Oct 1999
2Time Travel12 Oct 1999
3The Killer's Trail19 Oct 1999
4Island of the Spirits2 Nov 1999
5Decoding Nazi Secrets9 Nov 1999
6Voyage of Doom23 Nov 1999
7Electric Heart21 Dec 1999
8Tales from the Hive4 Jan 2000
9Lost on Everest18 Jan 2000
10Secrets of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege1 Feb 2000
11Diamond Deception1 Feb 2000
12Secrets of Lost Empires: Pharaoh's Obelisk8 Feb 2000
13Trillion Dollar Bet8 Feb 2000
14Secrets of Lost Empires: Easter Island15 Feb 2000
15Mystery of the First Americans15 Feb 2000
16Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath22 Feb 2000
17Lost Tribes of Israel22 Feb 2000
18Secrets of Lost Empires: China Bridge29 Feb 2000
19What's Up with the Weather?18 Apr 2000
20Stationed in the Stars25 Apr 2000
21The Vikings9 May 2000
Season 28
24 Oct 2000 – 24 Apr 2001 · 17 episodes
1Lincoln's Secret Weapon24 Oct 2000
2Holocaust on Trial31 Oct 2000
3Hitler's Lost Sub14 Nov 2000
4Runaway Universe21 Nov 2000
5Garden of Eden28 Nov 2000
6Dying to Be Thin12 Dec 2000
7Japan's Secret Garden18 Dec 2000
8Sultan's Lost Treasure16 Jan 2001
9Vanished!30 Jan 2001
10Nazi Prison Escape6 Feb 2001
11Lost King of the Maya13 Feb 2001
12The Cancer Warrior27 Feb 2001
13Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor27 Mar 2001
14Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions3 Apr 2001
15Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds10 Apr 2001
16Cracking the Code of Life17 Apr 2001
17Harvest of Fear24 Apr 2001
Season 29
2 Oct 2001 – 7 May 2002 · 17 episodes
1Search for a Safe Cigarette2 Oct 2001
218 Ways to Make a Baby9 Oct 2001
3Secrets of the Mind (aka Phantoms in the Brain)23 Oct 2001
4Sex: Unknown30 Oct 2001
5Russia's Nuclear Warriors6 Nov 2001
6Bioterror13 Nov 2001
7Life's Greatest Miracle20 Nov 2001
8Methuselah Tree11 Dec 2001
9Flying Casanovas25 Dec 2001
10Death Star8 Jan 2002
11Neanderthals on Trial22 Jan 2002
12Fireworks!5 Feb 2002
13Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies5 Feb 2002
14The Missing Link26 Feb 2002
15Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance26 Mar 2002
16Why the Towers Fell30 Apr 2002
17Fire Wars7 May 2002
Season 30 · Spies that Fly
3 Sep 2002 – 15 Apr 2003 · 16 episodes
1Killer Disease on Campus3 Sep 2002
2Mysterious Life of Caves1 Oct 2002
3Lost Roman Treasure8 Oct 2002
4Galileo's Battle for the Heavens29 Oct 2002
5Volcano's Deadly Warning12 Nov 2002
6Sinking City of Venice19 Nov 2002
7The Orchid Hunter26 Nov 2002
8Spies That Fly7 Jan 2003
9Last Flight of Bomber 3114 Jan 2003
10Ancient Creature of the Deep21 Jan 2003
11Battle of the X-Planes4 Feb 2003
12Mountain of Ice11 Feb 2003
13Lost Treasures of Tibet18 Feb 2003
14Dirty Bomb25 Feb 2003
15Deep Sea Invasion1 Apr 2003
16Secret of Photo 5115 Apr 2003
Season 31
30 Sep 2003 – 4 May 2004 · 18 episodes
1Infinite Secrets30 Sep 2003
2Who Killed the Red Baron?7 Oct 2003
3The Elegant Universe: Einstein's Dream (1)28 Oct 2003
4The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing (2)28 Oct 2003
5The Elegant Universe: Welcome to the 11th Dimension (3)4 Nov 2003
6Wright Brothers' Flying Machine11 Nov 2003
7Magnetic Storm18 Nov 2003
8Volcano Above the Clouds18 Nov 2003
9MARS: Dead or Alive4 Jan 2004
10Secrets of the Crocodile Caves20 Jan 2004
11Dogs and More Dogs3 Feb 2004
12Descent Into the Ice10 Feb 2004
13Crash of Flight 11117 Feb 2004
14Life and Death in the War Zone2 Mar 2004
15Hunt for the Supertwister30 Mar 2004
16World in the Balance: The People Paradox (1)20 Apr 2004
17World in the Balance: China Revs Up (2)20 Apr 2004
18Battle Plan Under Fire4 May 2004
Season 32
28 Sep 2004 – 29 Mar 2005 · 15 episodes
1Origins (1): Earth is Born28 Sep 2004
2Origins (2): How Life Began28 Sep 2004
3Origins (3): Where Are the Aliens?29 Sep 2004
4Origins (4): Back to the Beginning29 Sep 2004
5The Most Dangerous Woman in America12 Oct 2004
6America's Stone Age Explorers9 Nov 2004
7Great Escape16 Nov 2004
8Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land23 Nov 2004
9Welcome to Mars4 Jan 2005
10The Boldest Hoax11 Jan 2005
11Supersonic Dream18 Jan 2005
12The Viking Deception8 Feb 2005
13Saving the National Treasures15 Feb 2005
14A Daring Flight22 Feb 2005
15Wave That Shook the World29 Mar 2005
Season 33
20 Sep 2005 – 18 Apr 2006 · 16 episodes
1Mystery of the Megaflood20 Sep 2005
2Sinking the Supership4 Oct 2005
3Einstein's Big Idea11 Oct 2005
4Volcano Under the City1 Nov 2005
5Hitler's Sunken Secret8 Nov 2005
6Newton's Dark Secrets15 Nov 2005
7Storm That Drowned a City22 Nov 2005
8The Mummy Who Would Be King3 Jan 2006
9Deadly Ascent17 Jan 2006
10The Perfect Corpse7 Feb 2006
11Jewel of the Earth14 Feb 2006
12The Ghost Particle21 Feb 2006
13Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice28 Feb 2006
14The Great Robot Race28 Mar 2006
15Voyage to the Mystery Moon4 Apr 2006
16Dimming the Sun18 Apr 2006
Season 34
5 Sep 2006 – 26 Jun 2007 · 15 episodes
1Building on Ground Zero5 Sep 2006
2Mystery of the Megavolcano26 Sep 2006
3The Deadliest Plane Crash17 Oct 2006
4Monster of the Milky Way31 Oct 2006
5Wings of Madness7 Nov 2006
6The Family That Walks on All Fours14 Nov 2006
7Underwater Dream Machine26 Dec 2006
8Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius6 Feb 2007
9The Last Great Ape13 Feb 2007
10Kings of Camouflage3 Apr 2007
11First Flower17 Apr 2007
12Saved By the Sun24 Apr 2007
13Pocahontas Revealed8 May 2007
14Bone Diggers19 Jun 2007
15The Great Inca Rebellion26 Jun 2007
Season 35
9 Oct 2007 – 20 May 2008 · 17 episodes
1Secrets of the Samurai Sword9 Oct 2007
2Ghost in Your Genes16 Oct 2007
3Marathon Challenge30 Oct 2007
4Sputnik Declassified7 Nov 2007
5Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial13 Nov 2007
6Master of the Killer Ants20 Nov 2007
7Missing in MiG Alley18 Dec 2007
8Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold (1)8 Jan 2008
9Absolute Zero: The Race for Absolute Zero (2)15 Jan 2008
10Secrets of the Parthenon29 Jan 2008
11Astrospies12 Feb 2008
12Ape Genius19 Feb 2008
13The Four-Winged Dinosaur26 Feb 2008
14Cracking the Maya Code8 Apr 2008
15Car of the Future22 Apr 2008
16A Walk to Beautiful13 May 2008
17Lord of the Ants20 May 2008
Season 36
7 Oct 2008 – 30 Jun 2009 · 17 episodes
1Arctic Dinosaurs7 Oct 2008
2Space Shuttle Disaster14 Oct 2008
3Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives21 Oct 2008
4Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension28 Oct 2008
5Alien from Earth11 Nov 2008
6The Bible's Buried Secrets18 Nov 2008
7Ocean Animal Emergency25 Nov 2008
8Is There Life on Mars?30 Dec 2008
9The Big Energy Gamble20 Jan 2009
10The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies27 Jan 2009
11The Spy Factory3 Feb 2009
12Rat Attack24 Feb 2009
13Extreme Ice24 Mar 2009
14Last Extinction (Megabeasts' Sudden Death)31 Mar 2009
15Doctors' Diaries (1)7 Apr 2009
16Doctors' Diaries (2)14 Apr 2009
17Musical Minds30 Jun 2009
Season 37
6 Oct 2009 – 4 May 2010 · 18 episodes
1Darwin's Darkest Hour6 Oct 2009
2Hubble's Amazing Rescue13 Oct 2009
3Lizard Kings20 Oct 2009
4Becoming Human Part 1: First Steps3 Nov 2009
5Becoming Human Part 2: Birth of Humanity10 Nov 2009
6Becoming Human Part 3: Last Human Standing17 Nov 2009
7What Are Dreams?24 Nov 2009
8What Darwin Never Knew29 Dec 2009
9Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor5 Jan 2010
10Building Pharaoh's Ship12 Jan 2010
11Riddles of the Sphinx19 Jan 2010
12Ghosts of Machu Picchu2 Feb 2010
13Extreme Cave Diving9 Feb 2010
14The Pluto Files2 Mar 2010
15Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space - The Mystery of the Milky Way6 Apr 2010
16Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space - The Ever Expanding Universe13 Apr 2010
17Mind Over Money27 Apr 2010
18Mt. St. Helens Back from the Dead4 May 2010
Season 38
19 Oct 2010 – 20 Apr 2011 · 17 episodes
1Building the Great Cathedrals19 Oct 2010
2Emergency Mine Rescue26 Oct 2010
3Trapped in an Elevator2 Nov 2010
4Dogs Decoded9 Nov 2010
5Secrets of Stonehenge16 Nov 2010
6Quest for Solomon's Mines23 Nov 2010
7Secrets Beneath the Ice28 Dec 2010
8Deadliest Earthquakes11 Jan 2011
9Making Stuff Stronger (1)19 Jan 2011
10Making Stuff Smaller (2)26 Jan 2011
11Making Stuff Cleaner (3)2 Feb 2011
12Making Stuff Smarter (4)9 Feb 2011
13Smartest Machine on Earth9 Feb 2011
14Crash of Flight 44716 Feb 2011
15Venom: Nature's Killer23 Feb 2011
16Japan's Killer Quake30 Mar 2011
17Power Surge20 Apr 2011
Season 39
7 Sep 2011 – 25 Apr 2012 · 19 episodes
1Engineering Ground Zero7 Sep 2011
2Surviving the Tsunami28 Sep 2011
3Finding Life Beyond Earth: Are We Alone?19 Oct 2011
4Iceman Murder Mystery26 Oct 2011
5The Fabric of the Cosmos - What is Space?2 Nov 2011
6The Fabric of the Cosmos - The Illusion of Time9 Nov 2011
7The Fabric of the Cosmos - Quantum Leap16 Nov 2011
8The Fabric of the Cosmos - Universe or Multiverse?23 Nov 2011
9Deadliest Volcanoes4 Jan 2012
10Bombing Hitler's Dams11 Jan 2012
113D Spies of WWII18 Jan 2012
12Mystery of a Masterpiece25 Jan 2012
13Ice Age Death Trap1 Feb 2012
14Separating Twins8 Feb 2012
15Cracking Your Genetic Code28 Mar 2012
16Hunting the Elements4 Apr 2012
17Deadliest Tornadoes11 Apr 2012
18Why Ships Sink18 Apr 2012
19Secrets of the Sun25 Apr 2012
Season 40
10 Oct 2012 – 29 May 2013 · 20 episodes
1Secrets of the Viking Sword10 Oct 2012
2Forensics on Trial17 Oct 2012
3Mystery of Easter Island7 Nov 2012
4Ultimate Mars Challenge14 Nov 2012
5Inside the Megastorm18 Nov 2012
6Doomsday Volcanoes2 Jan 2013
7Decoding Neanderthals9 Jan 2013
8Rise of the Drones23 Jan 2013
9Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?30 Jan 2013
10Building Pharaoh's Chariot6 Feb 2013
11Earth from Space13 Feb 2013
12Mind of a Rampage Killer20 Feb 2013
13Meteor Strike27 Mar 2013
14Ancient Computer3 Apr 2013
15Australia's First 4 Billion Years - Awakening10 Apr 2013
16Australia's First 4 Billion Years - Life Explodes17 Apr 2013
17Australia's First 4 Billion Years - Monsters24 Apr 2013
18Australia's First 4 Billion Years - Strange Creatures1 May 2013
19Manhunt - Boston Bombers29 May 2013
20Oklahoma's Deadliest Tornadoes29 May 2013
Season 41
11 Sep 2013 – 28 May 2014 · 22 episodes
1Ground Zero Supertower11 Sep 2013
2Megastorm Aftermath9 Oct 2013
3Making Stuff Faster16 Oct 2013
4Making Stuff Wilder23 Oct 2013
5Making Stuff Colder30 Oct 2013
6Making Stuff Safer6 Nov 2013
7Cold Case JFK13 Nov 2013
8At the Edge of Space20 Nov 2013
9Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday?20 Nov 2013
10Alien Planets Revealed8 Jan 2014
11Zeppelin Terror Attack15 Jan 2014
12Killer Typhoon22 Jan 2014
13Ghosts of Murdered Kings29 Jan 2014
14Roman Catacomb Mystery5 Feb 2014
15Great Cathedral Mystery12 Feb 2014
16Wild Predator Invasion2 Apr 2014
17Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius9 Apr 2014
18Inside Animal Minds: Dogs & Super Senses16 Apr 2014
19Inside Animal Minds: Who's the Smartest?23 Apr 2014
20Why Sharks Attack7 May 2014
21Escape from Nazi Alcatraz14 May 2014
22D-Day's Sunken Secrets28 May 2014
Season 42
10 Sep 2014 – 29 Jul 2015 · 22 episodes
1Vaccines—Calling the Shots10 Sep 2014
2Rise of the Hackers24 Sep 2014
3Why Planes Vanish8 Oct 2014
4Surviving Ebola8 Oct 2014
5Ben Franklin's Balloons22 Oct 2014
6First Air War29 Oct 2014
7Bigger Than T. Rex5 Nov 2014
8Emperor's Ghost Army12 Nov 2014
9Killer Landslides19 Nov 2014
10First Man on the Moon3 Dec 2014
11Big Bang Machine14 Jan 2015
12Sunken Ship Rescue21 Jan 2015
13Sinkholes—Buried Alive28 Jan 2015
14Colosseum: Roman Death Trap11 Feb 2015
15Petra: Lost City of Stone18 Feb 2015
16Hagia Sophia: Istanbul's Ancient Mystery25 Feb 2015