From The TV IV
Season Sixteen of NOVA premiered on September 6, 1988.
Episodes
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| 282 | 1 | Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft | September 6, 1988
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| 283 | 2 | Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart | September 13, 1988
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| 284 | 3 | Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old | September 20, 1988
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| 285 | 4 | Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife | September 27, 1988
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| 286 | 5 | Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel? | October 14, 1988
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| 287 | 6 | Can the Next President Win the Space Race? | October 11, 1988
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| 288 | 7 | Do Scientists Cheat? | October 25, 1988
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| 289 | 8 | Who Shot President Kennedy? | November 15, 1988
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| 290 | 9 | The Light Stuff | November 22, 1988
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| 291 | 10 | The All-American Bear | December 6, 1988
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| 292 | 11 | Can We Make a Better Doctor? | December 13, 1988
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| 293 | 12 | Hot Enough for You? | January 17, 1989
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| 294 | 13 | The Last Journey of a Genius | January 24, 1989
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| 295 | 14 | The Strange New Science of Chaos | January 31, 1989
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| 296 | 15 | Back to Chernobyl | February 14, 1989
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| 297 | 16 | God, Darwin and Dinosaurs | February 21, 1989
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| 298 | 17 | Adrift on the Gulf Stream | February 28, 1989
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| 299 | 18 | Secrets of Easter Island | March 7, 1989
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| 300 | 19 | Legends of Easter Island | March 14, 1989
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| 301 | 20 | The World Is Full of Oil! | March 21, 1989
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| 302 | 21 | Confronting the Killer Gene | March 28, 1989
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