NOVA · Season 3 · Episode 5

“A Desert Place”

Aired Monday 2 February 1976

NOVA explores the mysterious ecosystem of the desert: a snowstorm; a lashing summer monsoon; and the emergence—in a pool created only minutes before—of a pair of adult spadefoot toads. Toads who had been waiting beneath the sand for a year for this brief and fortuitous moment to procreate the next generation...

S3 E5 discussion