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NOVA; Palace of Delights

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Series

NOVA

Program

Palace of Delights

Program Number

908

Series Description

Premiered March 1974 NOVA is a general-interest documentary series that addresses a single science issue each week. Billed as "science adventures for curious grown-ups" when it first aired in March, 1974, NOVA continues to offer an informative and entertaining approach to a challenging subject. 1996 marked NOVA's 23rd season, which makes it the longest-running science program on national television. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over. Series release date: 3/3/1974

Program Description

Visits Frank Oppenheimer's famed science museum, the Exploratorium of San Francisco -- part laboratory, part school, part three-ring circus--run by an unlikely collection of physicists and high school students.

Duration

00:61:00

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres

Documentary

Topics

Science

Citation

Chicago: “NOVA; Palace of Delights,” WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed September 28, 2016, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_490BC35A224D4E689C4484D29F3A98D0.

MLA: “NOVA; Palace of Delights.” WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. September 28, 2016. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_490BC35A224D4E689C4484D29F3A98D0>.

APA: NOVA; Palace of Delights. Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_490BC35A224D4E689C4484D29F3A98D0