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NOVA Season 53 at a glance
- Episodes announced
- 18 (16 aired)
- Premiere
- Wed, Jan 21, 2026
- Last announced episode
- Wed, Dec 16, 2026
- Release pattern
- Episodes release on varying dates
- Network
- PBS
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| Season 5318 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E1 | Asteroids: Spark of Life? | Aired | 9.6 | |
| E2 | Angkor: Hidden Jungle Empire | Aired | 9.2 | |
| E3 | Can Dogs Talk? | Aired | 9.5 | |
| E4 | Mammal Origins | Aired | 9.2 | |
| E5 | Stone Age Temple Mystery | Aired | 9.3 | |
| E6 | Return to the Moon | Aired | 9.8 | |
| E7 | Rain Bombs | Aired | 9 | |
| E8 | Athens: Birth of Democracy | Aired | 9.3 | |
| E9 | The Battle to Breathe | Aired | 9.8 | |
| E10 | Knowledge Keepers | Aired | 8.7 | |
| E11 | Stone Age Masterpiece | Aired | 9.7 | |
| E12 | Space Wars | Aired | 9.8 | |
| E13 | Evolution: Brain Power | Aired | 10 | |
| E14 | Evolution: Need to Feed | Aired | 9.7 | |
| E15 | Evolution: Body Builders | Aired | 10 | |
| E16 | Evolution: The Mating Game | Previous | — | |
| E17 | Evolution: On the Run | Next Episode | — | |
| E18 | Universe in Motion | Upcoming | — | |
| Season 5220 | ||||
| E1 | What Are UFOs? | Aired | 8.1 | |
| E2 | Extreme Airport Engineering | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E3 | Dino Birds | Aired | 9.3 | |
| E4 | Egypt's Tombs of Amun | Aired | 8.2 | |
| E5 | Pompeii's Secret Underworld | Aired | 8.4 | |
| E6 | Baltimore Bridge Collapse | Aired | 9.2 | |
| E7 | Revolutionary War Weapons | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E8 | Secrets of the Forest | Aired | 10 | |
| E9 | Critical Condition: Health in Black America | Aired | 6.3 | |
| E10 | Ultimate Crash Test: Countdown | Aired | 9.7 | |
| E11 | Ultimate Crash Test: Impact | Aired | 9.7 | |
| E12 | Human: Origins | Aired | 9.4 | |
| E13 | Human: Journeys | Aired | 9.3 | |
| E14 | Human: Neanderthal Encounters | Aired | 9.2 | |
| E15 | Human: Into the Americas | Aired | 9.5 | |
| E16 | Human: Building Empires | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E17 | Ancient Desert Death Trap | Aired | 9.1 | |
| E18 | Superfloods | Aired | 9.8 | |
| E19 | Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build | Aired | 9 | |
| E20 | Operation Space Station - Science and Survival | Aired | 9.5 | |
| Season 5118 | ||||
| E1 | When Whales Could Walk | Aired | 9 | |
| E2 | Easter Islands Origins | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E3 | Building the Eiffel Tower | Aired | 9.7 | |
| E4 | Hunt for the Oldest DNA | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E5 | A.I. Revolution | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E6 | Great American Eclipse | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E7 | Secrets in Your Data | Aired | 9.4 | |
| E8 | Decoding the Universe: Cosmos | Aired | 9.3 | |
| E9 | Solar System: Storm Worlds | Aired | 9 | |
| E10 | Solar System: Strange Worlds | Aired | 9.8 | |
| E11 | Solar System: Volcano Worlds | Aired | 9.5 | |
| E12 | Solar System: Icy Worlds | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E13 | Solar System: Wandering Worlds | Aired | 9.4 | |
| E14 | Decoding the Universe: Quantum | Aired | 9.6 | |
| E15 | Building Stuff: Boost It! | Aired | 9 | |
| E16 | Building Stuff: Reach It! | Aired | 9 | |
| E17 | Building Stuff: Change It! | Aired | 9.7 | |
| E18 | Lost Tombs of Notre Dame | Aired | 7.4 | |
| Season 5018 | ||||
| E1 | London Super Tunnel | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E2 | Star Chasers of Senegal | Aired | 7.4 | |
| E3 | Ancient Builders of the Amazon | Aired | 8.2 | |
| E4 | New Eye on the Universe | Aired | 7.4 | |
| E5 | Weathering the Future | Aired | 5.7 | |
| E6 | Chasing Carbon Zero | Aired | 6 | |
| E7 | Saving the Right Whale | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E8 | Hidden Volcano Abyss | Aired | 6.6 | |
| E9 | Your Brain: Perception Deception | Aired | 10 | |
| E10 | Your Brain: Who's in Control? | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Ancient Earth: Birth of the Sky | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E12 | Ancient Earth: Frozen | Aired | 8.2 | |
| E13 | Ancient Earth: Life Rising | Aired | 8.7 | |
| E14 | Ancient Earth: Inferno | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E15 | Ancient Earth: Humans | Aired | 8.7 | |
| E16 | Inside China's Tech Boom | Aired | 8 | |
| E17 | The Battle to Beat Malaria | Aired | 10 | |
| E18 | Lee and Liza's Family Tree | Aired | 8.5 | |
| Season 4924 | ||||
| E1 | High-Risk High-Rise | Aired | 7 | |
| E2 | Butterfly Blueprints | Aired | 8 | |
| E3 | Alaskan Dinosaurs | Aired | 8.2 | |
| E4 | Ancient Maya Metropolis | Aired | 8 | |
| E5 | Arctic Sinkholes | Aired | 7 | |
| E6 | Secrets in the Scat | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E7 | Great Mammoth Mystery | Aired | 8.2 | |
| E8 | Augmented | Aired | 7 | |
| E9 | Predicting My MS | Aired | 6.3 | |
| E10 | Determined: Fighting Alzheimer's | Aired | 8.7 | |
| E11 | Dinosaur Apocalypse: The New Evidence | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E12 | Dinosaur Apocalypse: The Last Day | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E13 | Why Ships Crash | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E14 | Ice Age Footprints | Aired | 7.6 | |
| E15 | Ultimate Space Telescope | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E16 | Saving Venice | Aired | 7.8 | |
| E17 | Ending HIV in America | Aired | 7.8 | |
| E18 | Computer v. Crime | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E19 | Can Psychedelics Cure? | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E20 | Ocean Invaders | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E21 | Nazca Desert Mystery | Aired | 6.8 | |
| E22 | Crypto Decoded | Aired | 6.4 | |
| E23 | Zero to Infinity | Aired | 7.8 | |
| E24 | Rebuilding Notre Dame | Aired | 8.7 | |
| Season 4821 | ||||
| E1 | Secrets In Our DNA | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E2 | Beyond the Elements: Reactions | Aired | 8.7 | |
| E3 | Beyond the Elements: Indestructible | Aired | 8.4 | |
| E4 | Beyond the Elements: Life | Aired | 8 | |
| E5 | Looking for Life on Mars | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E6 | Picture a Scientist / Search Engine Breakdown | Aired | 6 | |
| E7 | Reef Rescue | Aired | 7 | |
| E8 | Fighting for Fertility | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E9 | Hindenburg: The New Evidence | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E10 | Great Electric Airplane Race | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E11 | Ship That Changed the World | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E12 | Bat Superpowers | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E13 | The Cannabis Question | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E14 | Particles Unknown | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E15 | Arctic Drift | Aired | 4.7 | |
| E16 | Edible Insects | Aired | 4 | |
| E17 | NOVA Universe Revealed: Age of Stars | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E18 | NOVA Universe Revealed: Milky Way | Aired | 8.4 | |
| E19 | NOVA Universe Revealed: Alien Worlds | Aired | 8 | |
| E20 | NOVA Universe Revealed: Black Holes | Aired | 8.2 | |
| E21 | NOVA Universe Revealed: Big Bang | Aired | 7.9 | |
| Season 4716 | ||||
| E1 | Polar Extremes | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E2 | Dog Tales | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E3 | Cat Tales | Aired | 9.6 | |
| E4 | Mysteries of Sleep | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E5 | Cuba's Cancer Hope | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E6 | The Truth About Fat | Aired | 9 | |
| E7 | Decoding COVID-19 | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E9 | Eagle Power | Aired | 9 | |
| E11 | Human Nature / CRISPR Gene-Editing Reality Check | Aired | 8 | |
| E12 | Secret Mind of Slime | Aired | 9 | |
| E13 | A to Z: The First Alphabet | Aired | 8.4 | |
| E14 | A to Z: How Writing Changed the World | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E15 | Nature's Fear Factor | Aired | 8 | |
| E16 | Touching the Asteroid | Aired | 7.8 | |
| E17 | Can We Cool the Planet? | Aired | 6 | |
| E18 | Saving Notre Dame | Aired | 8.3 | |
| Season 4623 | ||||
| E1 | Pluto and Beyond | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E2 | Einstein's Quantum Riddle | Aired | 9 | |
| E3 | Kīlauea: Hawaiʻi on Fire | Aired | 8 | |
| E4 | Decoding the Great Pyramid | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E5 | Rise of the Rockets | Aired | 8.7 | |
| E6 | The Next Pompeii | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E7 | Saving the Dead Sea | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E8 | Inside the Megafire | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E9 | First Horse Warriors | Aired | 8 | |
| E10 | Lost Viking Army | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E11 | Back to the Moon | Aired | 8.4 | |
| E12 | The Planets: Inner Worlds | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E13 | The Planets: Mars | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E14 | The Planets: Jupiter | Aired | 8.8 | |
| E15 | The Planets: Saturn | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E16 | The Planets: Ice Worlds | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E17 | Why Bridges Collapse | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E18 | Look Who's Driving | Aired | 8.7 | |
| E19 | Rise of the Mammals | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E20 | Dead Sea Scroll Detectives | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E21 | Decoding da Vinci | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E22 | The Violence Paradox | Aired | 9 | |
| E23 | Animal Espionage | Aired | 9 | |
| Season 4517 | ||||
| E1 | Black Hole Apocalypse | Aired | 8.4 | |
| E2 | The Impossible Flight | Aired | 7.8 | |
| E3 | First Face of America | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E4 | Great Escape at Dunkirk | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E5 | Prediction by the Numbers | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E6 | Decoding the Weather Machine | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E7 | Rise of the Superstorms | Aired | 6.5 | |
| E8 | Transplanting Hope | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E9 | Operation Bridge Rescue | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E10 | Volatile Earth: Volcano on Fire | Aired | 8 | |
| E11 | Volatile Earth: Volcano on the Brink | Aired | 8 | |
| E12 | Addiction | Aired | 8.7 | |
| E13 | Flying Supersonic | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E14 | Last B-24 | Aired | 8.4 | |
| E15 | Thai Cave Rescue | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E16 | World's Fastest Animal | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E17 | Apollo's Daring Mission | Aired | 8.5 | |
| Season 4428 | ||||
| E1 | 15 Years of Terror | Aired | 5 | |
| E2 | School of the Future | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E3 | Great Human Odyssey | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E4 | Super Tunnel | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E5 | Treasures of the Earth: Gems | Aired | 8 | |
| E6 | Treasures of the Earth: Metals | Aired | 8 | |
| E7 | Treasures of the Earth: Power | Aired | 8 | |
| E8 | Secrets of the Sky Tombs | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E9 | The Nuclear Option | Aired | 8 | |
| E10 | Search for the Super Battery | Aired | 8.7 | |
| E11 | Ultimate Cruise Ship | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E12 | The Origami Revolution | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E13 | Why Trains Crash | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E14 | Holocaust Escape Tunnel | Aired | 5.7 | |
| E15 | Building Chernobyl's MegaTomb | Aired | 6 | |
| E16 | Chinese Chariot Revealed | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E17 | Poisoned Water | Aired | 8 | |
| E18 | Eclipse Over America | Aired | 9 | |
| E19 | Death Dive to Saturn | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E20 | Secrets of the Shining Knight | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E21 | Ghosts of Stonehenge | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E22 | Secrets of the Forbidden City | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E23 | Killer Volcanoes | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E24 | Killer Hurricanes | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E25 | Killer Floods | Aired | 7 | |
| E26 | Extreme Animal Weapons | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E27 | Bird Brain | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E28 | Day the Dinosaurs Died | Aired | 7 | |
| Season 4322 | ||||
| E1 | Dawn of Humanity | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Arctic Ghost Ship | Aired | 7 | |
| E3 | Secrets of Noah's Ark | Aired | 8 | |
| E4 | Cyberwar Threat | Aired | 8 | |
| E5 | Animal Mummies | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E6 | Making North America: Origins | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E7 | Making North America: Life | Aired | 7 | |
| E8 | Making North America: Human | Aired | 7.3 | |
| E9 | Inside Einstein's Mind | Aired | 9 | |
| E10 | Secret Tunnel Warfare | Aired | 8 | |
| E11 | Life's Rocky Start | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E12 | Mystery Beneath the Ice | Aired | 7 | |
| E13 | Himalayan Megaquake | Aired | 6.5 | |
| E14 | Creatures of Light | Aired | 7 | |
| E15 | Memory Hackers | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E16 | Iceman Reborn | Aired | 7 | |
| E17 | Rise of the Robots | Aired | 7 | |
| E18 | Vikings Unearthed | Aired | 6.5 | |
| E19 | Can Alzheimer's Be Stopped? | Aired | 8 | |
| E20 | Wild Ways | Aired | 7 | |
| E21 | Operation Lighthouse Rescue | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E22 | Bombing Hitler's Supergun | Aired | 8 | |
| Season 4222 | ||||
| E1 | Vaccines—Calling the Shots | Aired | 5.3 | |
| E2 | Rise of the Hackers | Aired | 8 | |
| E3 | Why Planes Vanish | Aired | 8 | |
| E4 | Surviving Ebola | Aired | 6 | |
| E5 | Ben Franklin's Balloons | Aired | 8 | |
| E6 | First Air War | Aired | 8 | |
| E7 | Bigger Than T. Rex | Aired | 8 | |
| E8 | Emperor's Ghost Army | Aired | 8.7 | |
| E9 | Killer Landslides | Aired | 6.5 | |
| E10 | First Man on the Moon | Aired | 8.6 | |
| E11 | Big Bang Machine | Aired | 8 | |
| E12 | Sunken Ship Rescue | Aired | 7 | |
| E13 | Sinkholes—Buried Alive | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E14 | Colosseum: Roman Death Trap | Aired | 8.7 | |
| E15 | Petra: Lost City of Stone | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E16 | Hagia Sophia: Istanbul's Ancient Mystery | Aired | 7 | |
| E17 | The Great Math Mystery | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E18 | Invisible Universe Revealed | Aired | 8 | |
| E19 | Nazi Attack on America | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E20 | Lethal Seas | Aired | 8 | |
| E21 | Chasing Pluto | Aired | 8 | |
| E22 | Nuclear Meltdown Disaster | Aired | 8 | |
| Season 4122 | ||||
| E1 | Ground Zero Supertower | Aired | 5.5 | |
| E2 | Megastorm Aftermath | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Making Stuff Faster | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Making Stuff Wilder | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Making Stuff Colder | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Making Stuff Safer | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Cold Case JFK | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E8 | At the Edge of Space | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E9 | Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday? | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E10 | Alien Planets Revealed | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Zeppelin Terror Attack | Aired | 7.7 | |
| E12 | Killer Typhoon | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Ghosts of Murdered Kings | Aired | 7 | |
| E14 | Roman Catacomb Mystery | Aired | 7 | |
| E15 | Great Cathedral Mystery | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E16 | Wild Predator Invasion | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E17 | Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius | Aired | 8 | |
| E18 | Inside Animal Minds: Dogs & Super Senses | Aired | 8 | |
| E19 | Inside Animal Minds: Who's the Smartest? | Aired | 8 | |
| E20 | Why Sharks Attack | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E21 | Escape from Nazi Alcatraz | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E22 | D-Day's Sunken Secrets | Aired | 7.5 | |
| Season 4020 | ||||
| E1 | Secrets of the Viking Sword | Aired | 7 | |
| E2 | Forensics on Trial | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Mystery of Easter Island | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E4 | Ultimate Mars Challenge | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Inside the Megastorm | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Doomsday Volcanoes | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Decoding Neanderthals | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Rise of the Drones | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby? | Aired | 6 | |
| E10 | Building Pharaoh's Chariot | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Earth from Space | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Mind of a Rampage Killer | Aired | 3 | |
| E13 | Meteor Strike | Aired | 8 | |
| E14 | Ancient Computer | Aired | 10 | |
| E15 | Australia's First 4 Billion Years - Awakening | Aired | 6.5 | |
| E16 | Australia's First 4 Billion Years - Life Explodes | Aired | 6.5 | |
| E17 | Australia's First 4 Billion Years - Monsters | Aired | 6.5 | |
| E18 | Australia's First 4 Billion Years - Strange Creatures | Aired | 6.5 | |
| E19 | Manhunt - Boston Bombers | Aired | 4.7 | |
| E20 | Oklahoma's Deadliest Tornadoes | Aired | — | |
| Season 3919 | ||||
| E1 | Engineering Ground Zero | Aired | 6.5 | |
| E2 | Surviving the Tsunami | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Finding Life Beyond Earth: Are We Alone? | Aired | 7 | |
| E4 | Iceman Murder Mystery | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E5 | The Fabric of the Cosmos - What is Space? | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Fabric of the Cosmos - The Illusion of Time | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Fabric of the Cosmos - Quantum Leap | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Fabric of the Cosmos - Universe or Multiverse? | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Deadliest Volcanoes | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Bombing Hitler's Dams | Aired | 5.5 | |
| E11 | 3D Spies of WWII | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Mystery of a Masterpiece | Aired | 8 | |
| E13 | Ice Age Death Trap | Aired | 7 | |
| E14 | Separating Twins | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Cracking Your Genetic Code | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Hunting the Elements | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Deadliest Tornadoes | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E18 | Why Ships Sink | Aired | 7 | |
| E19 | Secrets of the Sun | Aired | 8 | |
| Season 3817 | ||||
| E1 | Building the Great Cathedrals | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Emergency Mine Rescue | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Trapped in an Elevator | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Dogs Decoded | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Secrets of Stonehenge | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Quest for Solomon's Mines | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Secrets Beneath the Ice | Aired | 7 | |
| E8 | Deadliest Earthquakes | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E9 | Making Stuff Stronger (1) | Aired | 6 | |
| E10 | Making Stuff Smaller (2) | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Making Stuff Cleaner (3) | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Making Stuff Smarter (4) | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Smartest Machine on Earth | Aired | 8 | |
| E14 | Crash of Flight 447 | Aired | 6.5 | |
| E15 | Venom: Nature's Killer | Aired | 8.3 | |
| E16 | Japan's Killer Quake | Aired | 8 | |
| E17 | Power Surge | Aired | — | |
| Season 3718 | ||||
| E1 | Darwin's Darkest Hour | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Hubble's Amazing Rescue | Aired | 7 | |
| E3 | Lizard Kings | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E4 | Becoming Human Part 1: First Steps | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Becoming Human Part 2: Birth of Humanity | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Becoming Human Part 3: Last Human Standing | Aired | — | |
| E7 | What Are Dreams? | Aired | — | |
| E8 | What Darwin Never Knew | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Building Pharaoh's Ship | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Riddles of the Sphinx | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Ghosts of Machu Picchu | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Extreme Cave Diving | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Pluto Files | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space - The Mystery of the Milky Way | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space - The Ever Expanding Universe | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Mind Over Money | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Mt. St. Helens Back from the Dead | Aired | 7.5 | |
| Season 3617 | ||||
| E1 | Arctic Dinosaurs | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Space Shuttle Disaster | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Alien from Earth | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Bible's Buried Secrets | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Ocean Animal Emergency | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Is There Life on Mars? | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The Big Energy Gamble | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Spy Factory | Aired | 8 | |
| E12 | Rat Attack | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Extreme Ice | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Last Extinction (Megabeasts' Sudden Death) | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Doctors' Diaries (1) | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Doctors' Diaries (2) | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Musical Minds | Aired | — | |
| Season 3517 | ||||
| E1 | Secrets of the Samurai Sword | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Ghost in Your Genes | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Marathon Challenge | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Sputnik Declassified | Aired | 6.5 | |
| E5 | Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Master of the Killer Ants | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Missing in MiG Alley | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold (1) | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Absolute Zero: The Race for Absolute Zero (2) | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Secrets of the Parthenon | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Astrospies | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Ape Genius | Aired | 5.5 | |
| E13 | The Four-Winged Dinosaur | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Cracking the Maya Code | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Car of the Future | Aired | 5.5 | |
| E16 | A Walk to Beautiful | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Lord of the Ants | Aired | — | |
| Season 3415 | ||||
| E1 | Building on Ground Zero | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Mystery of the Megavolcano | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The Deadliest Plane Crash | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Monster of the Milky Way | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Wings of Madness | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Family That Walks on All Fours | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Underwater Dream Machine | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius | Aired | 7.5 | |
| E9 | The Last Great Ape | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Kings of Camouflage | Aired | — | |
| E11 | First Flower | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Saved By the Sun | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Pocahontas Revealed | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Bone Diggers | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Great Inca Rebellion | Aired | — | |
| Season 3316 | ||||
| E1 | Mystery of the Megaflood | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Sinking the Supership | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Einstein's Big Idea | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E4 | Volcano Under the City | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Hitler's Sunken Secret | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Newton's Dark Secrets | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Storm That Drowned a City | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Mummy Who Would Be King | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Deadly Ascent | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Perfect Corpse | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Jewel of the Earth | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Ghost Particle | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Great Robot Race | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Voyage to the Mystery Moon | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Dimming the Sun | Aired | — | |
| Season 3215 | ||||
| E1 | Origins (1): Earth is Born | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Origins (2): How Life Began | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Origins (3): Where Are the Aliens? | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Origins (4): Back to the Beginning | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Most Dangerous Woman in America | Aired | — | |
| E6 | America's Stone Age Explorers | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Great Escape | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Welcome to Mars | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Boldest Hoax | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Supersonic Dream | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Viking Deception | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Saving the National Treasures | Aired | — | |
| E14 | A Daring Flight | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Wave That Shook the World | Aired | — | |
| Season 3118 | ||||
| E1 | Infinite Secrets | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Who Killed the Red Baron? | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The Elegant Universe: Einstein's Dream (1) | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing (2) | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Elegant Universe: Welcome to the 11th Dimension (3) | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Wright Brothers' Flying Machine | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Magnetic Storm | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Volcano Above the Clouds | Aired | — | |
| E9 | MARS: Dead or Alive | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Secrets of the Crocodile Caves | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Dogs and More Dogs | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Descent Into the Ice | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Crash of Flight 111 | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Life and Death in the War Zone | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Hunt for the Supertwister | Aired | — | |
| E16 | World in the Balance: The People Paradox (1) | Aired | — | |
| E17 | World in the Balance: China Revs Up (2) | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Battle Plan Under Fire | Aired | — | |
| Season 3016 | ||||
| E1 | Killer Disease on Campus | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Mysterious Life of Caves | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Lost Roman Treasure | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Galileo's Battle for the Heavens | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Volcano's Deadly Warning | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Sinking City of Venice | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Orchid Hunter | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Spies That Fly | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Last Flight of Bomber 31 | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Ancient Creature of the Deep | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Battle of the X-Planes | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Mountain of Ice | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Lost Treasures of Tibet | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Dirty Bomb | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Deep Sea Invasion | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Secret of Photo 51 | Aired | — | |
| Season 2917 | ||||
| E1 | Search for a Safe Cigarette | Aired | — | |
| E2 | 18 Ways to Make a Baby | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Secrets of the Mind (aka Phantoms in the Brain) | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Sex: Unknown | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Russia's Nuclear Warriors | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Bioterror | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Life's Greatest Miracle | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Methuselah Tree | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Flying Casanovas | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Death Star | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Neanderthals on Trial | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Fireworks! | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Missing Link | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Why the Towers Fell | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E17 | Fire Wars | Aired | — | |
| Season 2817 | ||||
| E1 | Lincoln's Secret Weapon | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Holocaust on Trial | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Hitler's Lost Sub | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Runaway Universe | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Garden of Eden | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Dying to Be Thin | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Japan's Secret Garden | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Sultan's Lost Treasure | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Vanished! | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Nazi Prison Escape | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Lost King of the Maya | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Cancer Warrior | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Cracking the Code of Life | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Harvest of Fear | Aired | — | |
| Season 2721 | ||||
| E1 | Fall of the Leaning Tower | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Time Travel | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The Killer's Trail | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Island of the Spirits | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Decoding Nazi Secrets | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Voyage of Doom | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Electric Heart | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Tales from the Hive | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Lost on Everest | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Secrets of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Diamond Deception | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Secrets of Lost Empires: Pharaoh's Obelisk | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Trillion Dollar Bet | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Secrets of Lost Empires: Easter Island | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Mystery of the First Americans | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Lost Tribes of Israel | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Secrets of Lost Empires: China Bridge | Aired | — | |
| E19 | What's Up with the Weather? | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Stationed in the Stars | Aired | — | |
| E21 | The Vikings | Aired | — | |
| Season 2621 | ||||
| E1 | Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Chasing El Niño | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Terror in Space | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Ice Mummies (1): Frozen in Heaven | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Ice Mummies (2): Siberian Ice Maiden | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Ice Mummies (3): Return of the Iceman | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Leopards of the Night | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Perfect Pearl | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Beast of Loch Ness | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Submarines, Secrets & Spies | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvin | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Surviving AIDS | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Fire (1) | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Car Crash (2) | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Plane Crash (3) | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Abandon Ship (4) | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Battle Alert in the Gulf | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Volcanoes of the Deep | Aired | — | |
| E21 | To the Moon | Aired | — | |
| Season 2519 | ||||
| E1 | Coma | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Faster Than Sound | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Bomb Squad | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Proof | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Wild Wolves | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Super Bridge | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Treasures of a Sunken City | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Avalanche! | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Danger in the Jet Stream | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Night Creatures of the Kalahari | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Mysterious Mummies of China | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Supersonic Spies | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Animal Hospital | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Brain Eater | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Everest - The Death Zone | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Search for the Lost Cave People | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Warnings from the Ice | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Crocodiles! | Aired | — | |
| E19 | The Truth About Impotence | Aired | — | |
| Season 2420 | ||||
| E1 | Einstein Revealed | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Lost City of Arabia | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Three Men and a Balloon | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Secrets of Making Money | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Top Gun Over Moscow | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Shark Attack | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Odyssey of Life: The Ultimate Journey | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Odyssey of Life: The Unknown World | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Odyssey of Life: The Photographer's Secrets | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Cracking the Ice Age | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Kaboom! | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Titanic's Lost Sister | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Secrets of Lost Empires (1): Stonehenge | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Secrets of Lost Empires (2): Inca | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Secrets of Lost Empires (3): Obelisk | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Secrets of Lost Empires (4): Colosseum | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Hunt for Alien Worlds | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Curse of T. Rex | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Cut to the Heart | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Kingdom of the Seahorse | Aired | — | |
| Season 2319 | ||||
| E1 | Anastasia Dead or Alive? | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Venus Unveiled | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Hawaii Born of Fire | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Doomsday Asteroid | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Lightning! | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Hunt for the Serial Arsonist | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Treasures of the Great Barrier Reef | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Race to Catch a Buckyball | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Can Buildings Make You Sick? | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Terror in the Mine Fields | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Day the Earth Shook | Aired | — | |
| E12 | B-29 Frozen in Time | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Ebola: The Plague Fighters | Aired | — | |
| E14 | War Machines of Tomorrow | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Kidnapped by U.F.O.'s? | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Flood! | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Dr. Spock the Baby Doc | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Warriors of the Amazon | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Bombing of America | Aired | — | |
| Season 2223 | ||||
| E1 | The Great Wildlife Heist | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Secret of the Wild Child | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Haunted Cry of a Long Gone Bird | Aired | — | |
| E4 | What's New About Menopause | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Tribe that Time Forgot | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Killer Quake! | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Buried in Ash | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Rescue Mission in Space | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Journey to the Sacred Sea | Aired | — | |
| E10 | In Search of the First Language | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Mammoths of the Ice Age | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Vikings in America | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Ants: Little Creatures Who Run the World | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Nazi Designers of Death | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Siamese Twins | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Mystery of the Senses: Hearing | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Mystery of the Senses: Smell | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Mystery of the Senses: Taste | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Mystery of the Senses: Touch | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Mystery of the Senses: Vision | Aired | — | |
| E21 | The Universe Within | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Making of a Doctor | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Fast Cars | Aired | — | |
| Season 2121 | ||||
| E1 | The NOVA Quiz | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Wanted: Butch and Sundance | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Secrets of the Psychics | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Dying to Breathe | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Shadow of the Condor | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Real Jurassic Park | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Roller Coaster! | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Mysterious Crash of Flight 201 | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Great Moments from NOVA | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Best Mind Since Einstein | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Stranger in the Mirror | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Codebreakers | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Dinosaurs of the Gobi | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Daredevils of the Sky | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Journey to Kilimanjaro | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Can Chimps Talk? | Aired | — | |
| E17 | In Search of Human Origins, Part One | Aired | — | |
| E18 | In Search of Human Origins, Part Two | Aired | — | |
| E19 | In Search of Human Origins, Part Three | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Can China Kick the Habit? | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Aircraft Carrier! | Aired | — | |
| Season 2020 | ||||
| E1 | Animal Olympians II | Aired | — | |
| E2 | The Genius Behind the Bomb | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Mind of a Serial Killer | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Search for the First Americans | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Rafting Through the Grand Canyon | Aired | — | |
| E6 | This Old Pyramid | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Iceman | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Private Lives of Dolphins | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Brain Transplant | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Can You Stop People from Drinking? | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Sex and the Single Rhino | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Can Bombing Win a War? | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Deadly Deception | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Nazis and the Russian Bomb | Aired | — | |
| E16 | In the Path of a Killer Volcano | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Can Science Build a Champion Athlete? | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Diving for Pirate Gold | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Murder, Rape and DNA | Aired | — | |
| E20 | The Lost Tribe | Aired | — | |
| Season 1918 | ||||
| E1 | Sex, Lies and Toupee Tape | Aired | — | |
| E2 | So You Want to Be a Doctor? | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Suicide Mission to Chernobyl | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Taller Than Everest? | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Fastest Planes in the Sky | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Avoiding the Surgeon's Knife | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Skyscraper! A NOVA Special | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The Fine Art of Faking It | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Hell Fighters of Kuwait | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Submarine! | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Saddam's War on Wildlife | Aired | — | |
| E13 | What Smells? | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Can You Believe TV Ratings? | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Making a Dishonest Buck | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Rescuing Baby Whales | Aired | — | |
| E17 | An Astronaut's View of the Earth | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Eclipse of the Century | Aired | — | |
| Season 1821 | ||||
| E1 | The KGB, The Computer and Me | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Neptune's Cold Fury | Aired | — | |
| E3 | To Boldly Go... | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Poisoned Winds of War | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Blimp is Back! | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Earthquake! | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Killing Machines | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Can the Elephant Be Saved? | Aired | — | |
| E9 | We Know Where You Live | Aired | — | |
| E10 | In the Land of the Llamas | Aired | — | |
| E11 | What's Killing the Children? | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Return to Mt. St. Helens | Aired | — | |
| E13 | ConFusion in a Jar | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Hunt for China's Dinosaurs | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Case of the Flying Dinosaur | Aired | — | |
| E16 | T-Rex Exposed | Aired | — | |
| E17 | The Russian Right Stuff: The Invisible Spaceman | Aired | — | |
| E18 | The Russian Right Stuff: The Dark Side of the Moon | Aired | — | |
| E19 | The Russian Right Stuff: The Mission | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Swimming with Whales | Aired | — | |
| E21 | The Chip vs. the Chessmaster | Aired | — | |
| Season 1719 | ||||
| E1 | The Hidden City | Aired | — | |
| E2 | The Controversial Dr. Koop | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Design Wars! | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Echoes of War | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Decoding the Book of Life | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Hurricane! | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Will Venice Survive Its Rescue | Aired | — | |
| E8 | What Is Music | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Yellowstone's Burning Question | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Poison in the Rockies | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Race for the Top | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Disguises of War | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Bomb's Lethal Legacy | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Big Spill | Aired | — | |
| E16 | The Genius That Was China: Rise of the Dragon | Aired | — | |
| E17 | The Genius That Was China: Empires in Collision | Aired | — | |
| E18 | The Genius That Was China: The Threat from Japan | Aired | — | |
| E19 | The Genius That Was China: Will the Dragon Rise Again? | Aired | — | |
| Season 1621 | ||||
| E1 | Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel? | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Can the Next President Win the Space Race? | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Do Scientists Cheat? | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Who Shot President Kennedy? | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The Light Stuff | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The All-American Bear | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Can We Make a Better Doctor? | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Hot Enough for You? | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Last Journey of a Genius | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Strange New Science of Chaos | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Back to Chernobyl | Aired | — | |
| E16 | God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Adrift on the Gulf Stream | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Secrets of Easter Island (1) | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Legends of Easter Island (2) | Aired | — | |
| E20 | The World Is Full of Oil! | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Confronting the Killer Gene | Aired | — | |
| Season 1511 | ||||
| E1 | Top Gun and Beyond | Aired | — | |
| E12 | How to Create a Junk Food | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Buried in Ice | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Why Planes Burn | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Battles in the War on Cancer: Breast Cancer - Turning the Tide | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Mystery of the Master Builders | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Whale Rescue | Aired | — | |
| E19 | The Man Who Loved Numbers | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Race for the Superconductor | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Can You Still Get Polio? | Aired | — | |
| Season 1421 | ||||
| E1 | Countdown to the Invisible Universe | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Children of Eve | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Why Planes Crash | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Orangutans of the Rain Forest | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Freud Under Analysis | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Hole in the Sky | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Confessions of a Weaponeer | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Great Moments from NOVA | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Will the World Starve? | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Desert Doesn't Bloom Here Anymore | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Rocky Road to Jupiter | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Death of a Star | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Spy Machines | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Hidden Power of Plants | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Japan's American Genius | Aired | — | |
| E16 | A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Volcano! | Aired | — | |
| E18 | How Good is Soviet Science? | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Ancient Treasures from the Deep | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Riddle of the Joints | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Secrets of the Lost Red Paint People | Aired | — | |
| Season 1321 | ||||
| E1 | Halley's Comet: Once in a Lifetime | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Goddess of the Earth | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Horsemen of China | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Life's First Feelings | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Case of the Frozen Addict | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Toxic Trials | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Skydive to the Rain Forest | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Return of the Osprey | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The Rise of a Wonder Drug | Aired | — | |
| E10 | When Wonder Drugs Don't Work | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Visions of Star Wars | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Search for the Disappeared | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Planet that Got Knocked on its Side | Aired | — | |
| E14 | High-Tech Babies | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Can AIDS Be Stopped? | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Is Anybody Out There? | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Mystery of the Animal Pathfinders | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Are You Swimming in a Sewer? | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Sail Wars! | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Leprosy Can Be Cured! | Aired | — | |
| E21 | How Babies Get Made | Aired | — | |
| Season 1220 | ||||
| E1 | Edgerton and His Incredible Seeing Machines | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Global Village | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Conquest of the Parasites | Aired | — | |
| E4 | In the Land of the Polar Bears | Aired | — | |
| E5 | AIDS: Chapter One | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Shape of Things | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Baby Talk | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Mathematical Mystery Tour | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Child's Play: Prodigies and Possibilities | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Monarch of the Mountains | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The National Science Test II | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Seeds of Tomorrow | Aired | — | |
| E13 | What Einstein Never Knew | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Robot Revolution? | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Magic of Special Effects | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Child Survival: The Silent Emergency | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Tornado! | Aired | — | |
| E18 | The Genetic Gamble | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Animal Architects | Aired | — | |
| E20 | The Plane that Changed the World | Aired | — | |
| Season 1120 | ||||
| E1 | The Case of ESP | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Antarctica: Earth's Last Frontier | Aired | — | |
| E3 | China's Only Child | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Will I Walk Again? | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Visions of the Deep: The Underwater World of Al Giddings | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Down on the Farm | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Make My People Live: The Crisis in Indian Health Care | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The World According to Weiskoff | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Space Bridge to Moscow | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The National Science Test I | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Fountains of Paradise | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Mystery of Yellow Rain | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Nomads of the Rain Forest | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Farmers of the Sea | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Frontiers of Plastic Surgery | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Space Women | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Jaws: The True Story | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Acid Rain: New Bad News | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life | Aired | — | |
| E20 | The Garden of Inheritance | Aired | — | |
| Season 1021 | ||||
| E1 | Hawaii: Crucible of Life | Aired | — | |
| E2 | The Pleasure of Finding Things Out | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Lassa Fever | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Miracle of Life | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy | Aired | — | |
| E6 | City of Coral | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Fat Chance in a Thin World | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Sixty Minutes to Meltdown | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Artificial Heart | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Talking Turtle | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial | Aired | — | |
| E13 | To Live Until You Die: The Work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | Aired | — | |
| E14 | A Magic Way of Going: The Story of Thoroughbreds | Aired | — | |
| E15 | A Normal Face: The Wonders of Plastic Surgery | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Captives of Care | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Twenty-Five Years in Space | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Nuclear Strategy for Beginners | Aired | — | |
| E19 | The Climate Crisis | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Eyes Over China | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Alcoholism: Life Under the Influence | Aired | — | |
| Season 918 | ||||
| E1 | Salmon on the Run | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter for Judy | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Hunt for the Legion Killer | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Finding a Voice | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Television Explosion | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Life: Patent Pending | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Palace of Delights | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Animal Imposters | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Case of the UFOs | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Fragile Mountain | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Here's Looking at You Kid | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Adventures of Teenage Scientists | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Cobalt Blues | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Goodbye Louisiana | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Whale Watch | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Tracking the Supertrains | Aired | — | |
| Season 820 | ||||
| E1 | Doctors of Nigeria | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Message in the Rocks | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The Dead Sea Lives | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Anatomy of a Volcano | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Science of Murder | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Malady of Health Care | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Beyond the Milky Way | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Asteroid and the Dinosaur | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Animal Olympians | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Resolution on Saturn | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Computers, Spies & Private LIves | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Why America Burns | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Great Violin Mystery | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Cosmic Fire | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Locusts: War Without End | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Did Darwin Get It Wrong? | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Artists in the Lab | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas | Aired | — | |
| E19 | City Spaces, Human Places | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Twins | Aired | — | |
| Season 720 | ||||
| E1 | The Elusive Illness | Aired | — | |
| E2 | A is for Atom, B is for Bomb | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Living Machines | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Portrait of a Killer | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Umealit: The Whale Hunters | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Safety Factor | Aired | — | |
| E7 | A Mediterranean Prospect | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The Pinks and the Blues | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Sea Behind the Dunes | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Do We Really Need the Rockies? | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Big IF | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Voyager: Jupiter & Beyond | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor | Aired | — | |
| E16 | The Water Crisis | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Moving Still | Aired | — | |
| E18 | A Touch of Sensitivity | Aired | — | |
| E19 | The Red Deer of Rhum | Aired | — | |
| E20 | It's About Time | Aired | — | |
| Season 619 | ||||
| E1 | Black Tide | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Long Walk of Fred Young | Aired | — | |
| E3 | A World of Difference | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Cashing in on the Ocean | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Patterns from the Past | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Invisible Flame | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The End of the Rainbow | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Beersheva Experiment | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Einstein | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Keys of Paradise | Aired | — | |
| E11 | A Plague on our Children | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Life on a Silken Thread | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Sweet Solutions | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Race for the Gold | Aired | — | |
| E15 | All Part of the Game | Aired | — | |
| E16 | India: Machinery of Hope | Aired | — | |
| E17 | The Bridge that Spanned the World | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Termites to Telescopes | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Blindness: Five Points of Views | Aired | — | |
| Season 520 | ||||
| E1 | In the Event of Catastrophe | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Blueprints in the Bloodstream | Aired | — | |
| E3 | One Small Step (1) | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Final Frontier (2) | Aired | — | |
| E5 | BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Trial of Denton Cooley | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Great Wine Revolution | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Case of the Ancient Astronauts | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The Mind Machines | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Icarus' Children | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Still Waters | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Battle for the Acropolis | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Road to Happiness | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Light of the 21st Century | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Insect Alternative | Aired | — | |
| E16 | The Desert's Edge | Aired | — | |
| E17 | The Tse Tse Trap | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Memories from Eden | Aired | — | |
| E19 | A Whisper from Space | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Alaska: The Closing Frontier | Aired | — | |
| Season 420 | ||||
| E1 | Hitler's Secret Weapon | Aired | — | |
| E2 | The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs | Aired | — | |
| E3 | What Price Coal? | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Sunspot Mystery | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Plastic Prison | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Incident at Brown's Ferry | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Bye Bye Blackbird | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Pill for the People | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The Gene Engineers | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Human Animal | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Wolf Equation | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Dawn of the Solar Age | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Business of Extinction | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Red Planet | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Tongues of Men (1) | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Tongues of Men (2) | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Across the Silent Barrier | Aired | — | |
| E19 | The New Healers | Aired | — | |
| E20 | The Green Machine | Aired | — | |
| Season 320 | ||||
| E1 | Predictable Disaster | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Joey | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Meditation and the Mind | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Planets | Aired | — | |
| E5 | A Desert Place | Aired | — | |
| E6 | A Small Imperfection | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Ninety Degrees Below | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Race for the Double Helix | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The Renewable Tree | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Williamsburgh File | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Overworked Miracle | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Transplant Experiment | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Underground Movement | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Hunters of the Seal | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Benjamin | Aired | — | |
| E16 | The Women Rebel | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Death of a Disease | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Inside the Shark | Aired | — | |
| E19 | The Genetic Chance | Aired | — | |
| E20 | The Case of the Bermuda Triangle | Aired | — | |
| Season 217 | ||||
| E1 | Why Do Birds Sing? | Aired | — | |
| E2 | How Much Do You Smell? | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The Hunting of the Quark | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Secrets of Sleep | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Inside the Golden Gate | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Men Who Painted Caves | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Red Sea Coral | Aired | — | |
| E8 | War from the Air | Aired | — | |
| E9 | What Time Is Your Body? | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Rise and Fall of DDT | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Take the World from Another Point of View | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Lysenko Affair | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Tuaregs | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Plutonium Connection | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Other Way | Aired | — | |
| E16 | The Lost World of the Maya | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Will the Fishing Have to Stop? | Aired | — | |
| Season 113 | ||||
| E1 | The Making of a Natural History Film | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Where Did the Colorado Go? | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Whales, Dolphins, and Men | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Search for Life | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Last of the Cuiva | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Strange Sleep | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Crab Nebula | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor? | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The First Signs of Washoe | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Case of the Midwife Toad | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Fusion: The Energy of Promise | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Mystery of the Anasazi | Aired | — | |
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