Virus(1960)
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First Air Date: 1960-01-01
Average Runtime: 29m
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Seasons: 1
Episodes: 8
From KQED in San Francisco and the Virus Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, comes a distinguished series of eight half-hour programs on the nature of the virus. Prepared using a National Science Foundation grant, the series is designed to explain to the viewer some of the basic facts about viruses, those structures so essential to life and health, facts which for the most part have only been discovered in the past twenty-five years. Drawing on advanced scientific techniques such as microcinematography, electron microscopy and freeze drying, as well as on animation, large-scale models and drawings, the programs combine lectures with demonstrations to give the viewer an extremely vivid picture of this complicated topic. Particularly emphasized are facts about the virus' relation to bacterial disease, to polio, and to cancer, and new information about viruses which may not yet be generally known to students of biology or to the non-scientific public.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 8E01
Between the Living and Non-living
Air Date: 1960-01-01
Shows how various viruses fit between the largest non-living molecule and the smallest unit of life. Uses models to e...
E02
Giant Molecules
Air Date: 1960-01-08
Presents an analysis of the structure of viruses and how they are studied. Shows and explains how an electron microsc...
E03
The Stuff of Life
Air Date: 1960-01-15
Dr. C. Arthur Knight, featured on this program, introduces his topic with a brief description of properties which cha...
E04
Viral Genes
Air Date: 1960-01-22
Presents an analysis of bacteriophages and how they may change. Explains why bacterial viruses are useful to scientis...
E05
How Viruses Kill
Air Date: 1960-01-29
Explains how a virus destroys cells. Uses animated films and microcinematography to show how a virus enters a cell, s...
E06
Threads of Life
Air Date: 1960-02-05
Presents an analysis of nucleic acid. Uses a large model of the tobacco mosaic virus to explain its structure. Demons...
E07
Killers and Carcinogens
Air Date: 1960-02-12
Discuses virus diseases. Reviews the known viral diseases and the development of vaccination. Explains how a polio vi...
E08
Cancer
Air Date: 1960-02-19
Discusses the relationship between viruses and cancer. Explains how viruses can cause cancers in animals and why it i...
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