NOVA (1974)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Walter Corbett
Camera Operator
Stephen McCarthy
Director of Photography
Keon Abbott
Camera Operator
Wes C. Skiles
Director of Photography
Oktay Ortabasi
Director of Photography / Cinematography
Lisa Vidal
Assistant Camera
Christopher Titus King
Director of Photography
Jon Lane
Director of Photography
Sven Nykvist
Director of Photography
Vahe Papazyan
Director of Photography
Brian Dowley
Director of Photography
Mark Daniels
Director of Photography
Ralf Klingelhöfer
Camera Operator
Dominik Giapis
Camera Operator
Jason Longo
Director of Photography
Adam Lee
Camera Operator
Ezra Wolfinger
Director of Photography
Erin Bitman
Makeup & Hair
Carl Jablonski
Thanks
Steven Reich
Script / Writer
Barbara Olachea
Post Production Assistant
Nicholas Ostrander
Post Production Assistant
Donald Gordon
Clearances Consultant
Lisa Janssen
Clearances Coordinator
Sarah Holt
Director / Producer / Writer
Kirk Wolfinger
Director
Doug Hamilton
Director / Producer / Writer
Michael Barnes
Director / Producer / Writer
Liesl Clark
Director / Producer / Writer
Gary Glassman
Director / Producer / Writer
Julia Cort
Director / Executive Producer / Writer
Graham Townsley
Director / Producer / Writer
Larry Klein
Director / Writer
Duncan Copp
Director
Chris Schmidt
Director / Producer / Executive Producer / Writer
Joseph McMaster
Director / Writer
Ian Duncan
Director / Writer
Mark Davis
Director / Writer
Gail Willumsen
Director / Writer
David Dugan
Director / Writer
Daniel McCabe
Director / Producer / Writer
Terri Randall
Director / Producer / Writer
Miles O'Brien
Director
Stephen Sweigart
Director / Writer
Oliver Twinch
Director / Writer
Michael Bicks
Director / Producer / Writer
Peter Jones
Director
David Murdock
Director / Writer
Joseph Seamans
Director / Writer
Thomas Lucas
Director / Writer
Jonathan Challis
Director
Carl Charlson
Director / Writer
Robert Zalisk
Director / Producer / Writer
Gwyn Williams
Director / Producer
Nick Clarke Powell
Director
Scott Tiffany
Director
David Sington
Director / Producer / Writer
Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones
Director / Writer
Gisela Kaufmann
Director / Writer
David Axelrod
Director / Writer
Jon Palfreman
Director / Writer
Peter Yost
Director / Writer
Matthew Barrett
Director
Paul Olding
Director / Writer
Nancy Linde
Director / Writer
Louise Lockwood
Director
Marco Visalberghi
Director
Gary Johnstone
Director / Writer
Nick Davidson
Director / Writer
John Hayes Fisher
Director / Producer
Leslie Woodhead
Director / Writer
Malcolm Clark
Director / Writer
Nathan Williams
Director / Writer
John Rubin
Director / Writer
Ben Fox
Director
Alice Harper
Director
Peter Chinn
Director / Writer
David Lebrun
Director / Writer
Gary Hochman
Director / Writer
Sabin Streeter
Director
Nancy Porter
Director / Writer
Simon Nashi
Director
Peter Nicholson
Director
Chris Hale
Director
John Aitchison
Director
Jo Locke
Director
Joby Lubman
Director / Producer
Tug Yourgrau
Director
Eleanor Grant
Director
Hugh Thomson
Director / Writer
David McNab
Director
James Barrat
Director
Bonnie Brennan
Director / Producer / Writer
Stephen Lyons
Director / Editor / Writer
Jamie Lochhead
Director / Producer / Writer
Andrew Cohen
Director
Marian Marzynski
Director
Nick de Pencier
Director
Andy Awes
Director
Chris Oxley
Director
Dimitri Doganis
Director
Garfield Kennedy
Director
Ben Shackleford
Director
Katie Bauer
Director
Josh Rosen
Director
Iain Riddick
Director / Writer
Steven Latham
Director
Louise Osmond
Director
Jon Eastman
Director / Producer
Chantal Hébert
Director
Gilles Cayatte
Director
Bella Falk
Director
Kate Bartlett
Director / Producer
Stéphane Bégoin
Director
Kenny Scott
Director / Writer
Gianfranco Pannone
Director
Chris Durlacher
Director / Writer
Lisa Q. Wolfinger
Director
Mary Olive Smith
Director
Scott Willis
Director
Randall MacLowry
Director
Tom Stubberfield
Director
Noel Dockstader
Director
Paul Reddish
Director
Simon Nasht
Director
Shinichi Murata
Director
David Chmura
Director
Tim Dunn
Director / Writer
Thomas Levenson
Director
Clay Bryce
Director
Mike Beckham
Director / Writer
Charles Coville
Director
David Alvarado
Director
Ellen Giffard
Director
Amir Amirani
Director
Muffie Meyer
Director
Serena Davies
Director
Jackie Mow
Director
Harvey Lilley
Director
Daniel McCabe
Director / Producer / Writer
Owen Palmquist
Director
Alex Williams
Director
Adrian Pennink
Director / Writer
Edward Hart
Director
Celia Lowenstein
Director
Henry Chancellor
Director
Miles Barton
Director
Emily Roe
Director
Antoine de Maximy
Director
Kelly Tyler
Director / Writer
Kate Dart
Director
Susannah Ward
Director
Marti Louw
Director
David Conover
Director
Jonathan Dent
Director
Amy Bucher
Director
Thierry Ragobert
Director
Oscar Chan
Director / Writer
Elizabeth Arledge
Director / Writer
Ricardo Preve
Director
Richard Burke-Ward
Director
Andreas Sawall
Director
Michael Schwarz
Director
Stuart Scowcroft
Director
Dan Child
Director
James Brundige
Director
Adam English
Director
Tetsuji Miyagawa
Director
Lara Acaster
Director
Christopher Rawlence
Director / Writer
Ben Finney
Director
David Huntley
Director
Alan Govenar
Director / Writer
Mark Radice
Director
Bill Jersey
Director
Jemima Harrison
Director
David Belton
Director
Michael Jorgensen
Director
Jonathan Grupper
Director / Writer
Herbert Habersack
Director
Annámaria Tálas
Director
Peter Oxley
Director
Graham Judd
Director
David Shadrack Smith
Director
Robert Strange
Director
Talya Tibbon
Director
John Bradshaw
Director
Brian Breger
Director
Liz Tucker
Director
Rick King
Director
Sean Varley
Director
Larkin McPhee
Director / Writer
Lennart Nilsson
Director
Callum Macrae
Director
Anna Lee Strachan
Director / Producer
Jill Shinefield
Director
Adam Geiger
Director / Writer
Martin O'Collins
Director
Brando Quilici
Director
Llewellyn M. Smith
Director / Writer
Tetsunori Kikuchi
Director
Wolfgang Thaler
Director
Nigel Paterson
Director
Nic Young
Director / Writer
Tom Cook
Director
Graham Russell
Director
Nick Evans
Director
Adam Bolt
Director
Noel Buckner
Director
David Espar
Director / Writer
Dick Bower
Director
Ingo Helbig
Director
Jerome Raynaud
Director / Writer
Caroline Penry-Davey
Director / Writer
Peter Williams
Director
Jason Sussberg
Director
Carolyn Bertram
Director
Andrew Thompson
Director
Steve Greenwood
Director
Jacinth O'Donnell
Director
Alan Ritsko
Director
Joel Olicker
Director / Writer
Peter Bate
Director
Rob Whittlesey
Director
Leif Kaldor
Director / Writer
John Coldiron
Colorist / Editor
Brian Guerrero
Assistant Editor
Spencer Thompson
Assistant Editor
Arjun Pothuri
Assistant Editor
Will Ilgen
Additional Editing
Duncan Sinclair
Editor
Jennifer Belleville
Additional Editing
Ryan Shepheard
Editor
Paula S. Apsell
Producer
John Angier
Executive Producer
Ben Sweeney
Associate Producer
Florence Almeda
Research Assistant
Laurie Cahalane
Producer
Laurent Duret
Production Manager
Catherine Watling
Producer
Sacha Guillaume
Production Manager
Kevin Young
Co-Producer
Christine Le Goff
Executive Producer
Marko Kuo
Business Affairs Coordinator
Steffen Schlachtenhaufen
Producer's Assistant
Natalie Rose Viso
Production Assistant
James Millican
Producer
Chad Cohen
Producer
Fay Sutherland
Coordinating Producer
Stephen Gallagher
Business Affairs Coordinator
Will Kalec
Development Producer
Yves Jeanneau
Executive Producer
Becca Jauregui
Production Manager
Gary Tarpinian
Executive Producer
Paninee Theeranuntawat
Executive Producer
Hélène Coldefy
Executive Producer
Sarah Kinsella
Producer
Tristan Barako
Associate Producer
Isabelle Lemonnier
Line Producer
Bob Lange
Business Affairs Coordinator
Michella Williams
Accountant
Dan McCarthy
Production Coordinator
Cara Feinberg
Co-Producer
Nina Kraljić
Vocals
Ed Tomney
Original Music Composer
Ramón Balcázar
Music Supervisor
John Luker
Music
Walter Werzowa
Music
Seth Cooper
Sound Recordist
Benjamin Bober
Sound Recordist
Michael Thäte
Sound Recordist
Martin Gutierrez
Sound Mixer
Matt Blackerby
Sound Recordist
Sean-Michael Hamilton
Sound Recordist
Lachlan Westfall
Animation
James Bamford
Writer
Matthew Collins
Writer
Tom Shachtman
Writer
Michael Winship
Writer
Andrew Dean
Writer
Leslea Mair
Writer
Jonathan Renouf
Writer
Ronald H. Blumer
Writer
Evan I. Schwartz
Writer
Arnie Gelbart
Writer
Linda Harrar
Writer
Vincent Liota
Writer
William Hicklin
Writer
Judith Vecchione
Writer
Timothy Smith
Writer
Thomas Friedman
Writer
Jonathan Wickham
Writer
Adam Bolt
Writer
Mikael Agaton
Writer
John Goldsmith
Writer
Martin Williams
Writer
Wayne Dyer
Writer
Marrily Weisbord
Writer
Kate Hudec
Writer
Jeremy Hogarth
Writer
Satoko Saito
Writer
Courtney B. Vance
Narrator
Corey Johnson
Narrator
Craig Sechler
Narrator
Jay O. Sanders
Narrator (voice)
Demetri Goritsas
Narrator
Richard Smith
Host / Director
Bray Poor
Narrator
Lance Lewman
Narrator (voice)
Michael Scott
Narrator / Writer
Ted Marcoux
Narrator
Peter Thomas
Narrator
Jim Carter
Narrator
Kenichi Nakamaru
Reporter
Shu Morino
Reporter
Brian Greene
Host
Jamie Effros
Narrator
Eric Meyers
Narrator
John Lithgow
Narrator
John Mckenzie
Narrator
Neil Ross
Narrator
Henry Ian Cusick
Charles Darwin
Frances O'Connor
Emma Darwin
Liev Schreiber
Narrator (voice)
Nigel Bennett
Sir Charles Lyell
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Host / Narrator
Rushmore DeNooyer
Narrator / Director / Producer / Writer
Mark Oliver Everett
Himself
Stefanie E. Frame
Narrator
Kathryn Walker
Narrator
John Benjamin Hickey
Narrator
Stockard Channing
Narrator / Bible Reader
Alan Yentob
Narrator
Rob Tinworth
Narrator / Editor
David Slavin
Narrator
Ray Magliozzi
Host
Tom Magliozzi
Host
Harrison Ford
Narrator
E.O. Wilson
Himself
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Percy Julian
Richard Donat
Narrator
Aidan McArdle
Albert Einstein
Shirley Henderson
Mileva Maric
Steven Robertson
Michael Faraday
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Antoine Lavoisier
Ty Glaser
Marie Anne Lavoisier
Brendan Fleming
Hermann Einstein
Stephen Noonan
Marat
Anton Lesser
Voltaire
Emily Woof
Lise Meitner
Alex MacQueen
Chater
Samuel West
Humphry Davy
Robert Styles
Newman
Philip Herbert
Count de Amerval
Di Trevis
Baroness de la Garde
James Tovell
Manson
F. Murray Abraham
Narrator
Scott Handy
Isaac Newton
Christian Pedersen
Gustav Wiik / Otto Hahn
David Attenborough
Narrator / Writer
Anthony Garner
Sir John Franklin
Maureen Bennett
Lady Franklin
Thom Fell
James Fitzjames
Bohdan Poraj
Francis Crozier
Corey Conradi
Roald Amundsen
Darri Ingolfsson
Godfred Hansen
Marian Tomas Griffin
Mary Mallon
Jere Shea
George Soper
Natalie Rose
Josephine Baker
Keith David
Narrator
Gene Galusha
Narrator
David Ogden Stiers
Narrator
Jeremiah Kissel
Narrator
Oliver Platt
Narrator
Calvin Sims
Reporter
C. Scott Willis
Reporter / Director
Edd Gasper
Narrator
Simon Callow
Galileo
Laura Nardi
Maria Celeste
John Fraser
Inquisitor
Alexa Jago
Voice of Maria Celeste
Cornelius Garrett
Voices of the Ambassador and Castelli
Tony Kahn
Narrator
Sigourney Weaver
Narrator
Stacy Keach
Narrator / Narrator (voice)
Rena Baskin
Narrator
Vladimir Pozner
Host
Roger McGough
Narrator
William Hootkins
Voice of Methuselah
Will Lyman
Narrator / Narrator (voice)
Joe Morton
Narrator / Additional Narration
Derek Jacobi
Voice of Ernest Shackleton
Roy Scheider
Narrator
Susan Sarandon
Narrator (voice)
Hector Elizondo
Narrator
John Hockenberry
Narrator
Robert Krulwich
Correspondent
Hal Linden
Narrator
John Hurt
Narrator
Rebecca De Mornay
Narrator
Sally Kellerman
Narrator
Jeremy Akerman
Parslow
Jan Maxwell
Narrator
Salvatore Vecchio
Narrator
Kirk Johnson
Host
Richard Allinson
Narrator
Lee Rogers Berger
Himself
Zeresenay Alemseged
Himself
John Hawks
Himself
David Pogue
Host
Zachary Quinto
Narrator
Laurence Golborne
Self
Talithia Williams
Self - Narrator
John Pallister
Self - USGS Geologist
Charlie Crisafulli
Self - USGS Geologist
Robert Michelson
Self
Reinhard Genzel
Self
Manfred von Richthofen
Self (archive footage)
William H. Whyte
Self
James R. Schlesinger
Self (archive footage)
Heather Berlin
Self
George Pataki
Self
John E. Mack
Self - Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Bernard Arcand
Self
Duncan Carse
Narrator
Carl Sagan
Self
Beatrix Gardner
Self
R. Allen Gardner
Self
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Self
Patricia Marks Greenfield
Self
Duane Rumbaugh
Self
Sarah Boyson
Self
Ian Holm
Narrator (voice) / Narrator
Robert Sinsheimer
Self
David Baltimore
Self
George Church
Self
Jennifer Doudna
Self
Rodolphe Barrangou
Self
Antonio Regalado
Self
Valerie Harper
Self / Narrator (voice)
Christopher Molesworth
Joey as a Boy
John Prasher
Joey as a Young Man
Joseph Deacon
Joey Today
Tony Robinson
Younger Ernie
Ernie Roberts
Ernie Today
Anita Carey
Joey's Mother
Mark Wing-Davey
Joey's Father
Shankara Murthi
S. Ramanujan (voice)
A. Tarcisius
Indian Voices (voice)
Gregory Harris
J.E. Littlewood (voice)
Don Wescott
Narrator (voice)
Jean Dieudonne
Self
Paul Erdös
Self
Greg Moore
Self
Maureen Stapleton
Narrator (voice)
Paul Vaughan
Narrator (voice) / Narrator
David Rose
Self
Richard Post
Self
William Franklyn
Narrator (voice)
Terrence Hardiman
Trofim Lysenko
David Swift
Nikolai Vavilov
Martin Jarvis
G.H. Hardy (voice) / Narrator (voice)
Simon Lack
Zhukovsky
Richard Ireson
Prezent
George Cormack
Ivan Michurin
Forbes Collins
Iakovlev
Richard Beale
Lysenko's Father
Noel Davis
Scientist
Michael David
Agrobiologist
David James
Gorshkov
Brian Poyser
Shudenko
Eve Karpf
Woman
Frank Gillard
Narrator (voice)
Jeremy Keenan
Anthropologist
Linus Pauling
Self
Ray Moore
Narrator (voice)
Joseph Campanella
Narrator (voice)
Alexander John
Narrator (voice)
Robin King
Narrator (voice)
David Suzuki
Narrator (voice)
Harry Mannis
Narrator (voice)
Will Lyman
Narrator (voice)
Bill Mason
Narrator (voice)
Lee Grant
Narrator (voice)
Richard Kiley
Narrator (voice)
Ursula Drabik
Narrator (voice)
Lanie Zera
Narrator (voice)
Stephen Jay Gould
Self
Mimi Michaela Konoza
High School Student (uncredited)
Alkibiadis Bakogianis
Demetris Xilas
Argirios Bangelis
Aristotelles Kariofillas
Andreas Charitopoulos
Carl Sagan
Kostas Baras
Elias Papadopoulos
Kiriakos Kamaros
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 3, 1974
StatusReturning Series
Seasons51
Episodes980
Running Time55m
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
Wiki.
Nova (stylized as NOVΛ) is an American popular science television program produced by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1974. It is broadcast on PBS in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries. The program has won many major television awards.Nova often includes interviews with scientists doing research in the subject areas covered and occasionally includes footage of a particular discovery. Some episodes have focused on the history of science. Examples of topics covered include the following:
Colditz Castle,
the Drake equation,
elementary particles,
the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens,
Fermat's Last Theorem,
the AIDS epidemic,
global warming,
moissanite,
Project Jennifer,
storm chasing,
Unterseeboot 869,
Vinland,
Tarim mummies,
and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Nova programs have been praised for their pacing, writing, and editing. Websites that accompany the segments have also won awards.