NOVA · Season 9 · Episode 2

“Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter for Judy”

Aired Monday 18 January 1982

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, December 28, 1981 in Norfolk, VA.

S9 E2 discussion