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NOVA: Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy

Nova (1982)

Documentary | United States

Director: Kirk Wolfinger, Sarah Holt

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SEASON: 9

EPISODE: 2 - Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy

SYNOPSIS

NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jordan Carr. NOVA follows the pregnancy from the start, presenting the only view on American TV of the extraordinary medical procedures used to remove and fertilize the egg, and of the historic birth, 28 December 1981 in Norfolk, VA.

Actors

Voice: Eriq La Salle, Kay Tong Lim, Yu Beng Lim, Timothy Nga, Gerald Chew, Dan Ziskie, Craig S. Wollman, Patrice Donnell

Writer: Julia Cort, Joseph McMaster

Narrator: Will Lyman, Neil Ross

RUNTIME: 55 min

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