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February 09, 1977

S04 · E05 of 19 episodes

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The Plastic Prison #S04E05

55 min 1974 5 months ago

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55m 1977 39

NOVA S04 E05 1974

The Plastic Prison

NOVA · Season 4, Episode 5

NOVA follows the lives of three boys who have combined immuned deficiency—a disease that leaves its victims with no immune system.

Episode 5 of Season 4 from NOVA — available to stream in HD on any device.

Country United States

Genre

Documentary

Released

03 Mar, 1974

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1 Hitler's Secret Weapon 2 The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs 3 What Price Coal? 4 The Sunspot Mystery 5 The Plastic Prison 6 Incident at Brown's Ferry 7 Bye Bye Blackbird 8 The Pill for the People 9 The Gene Engineers 10 The Human Animal 11 The Wolf Equation 12 The Dawn of the Solar Age 13 The Business of Extinction 14 The Red Planet 15 Tongues of Men (1) 16 Tongues of Men (2) 17 Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist 18 Across the Silent Barrier 19 The New Healers

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