Horizon (1964)
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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- Country: GB
- Language: English
- Runtime: 60
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Episode 1 - An Ingenious Man - Sir H. John Baker
Release Date: 1968-01-02Horizon reports on Prof. Sir John Baker who is a distinguished British engineer, tracing his career beginning from his early work on airships.
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Episode 2 - Man's Best Friend
Release Date: 1968-01-30This episode covers interviews with surgeons and research workers discussing the need for animal experimentation in medical work.
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Episode 3 - Once a Junkie
Release Date: 1968-02-13In England addicts get their heroin, and often cocaine, on the National Health Service: our system has prevented the growth of a drug-based criminal world, but Americans say that our system only worked when we did not have a serious addiction problem. Now we do. Does our present system make it too easy for the casual drug experimenter to become a hard-core addict? Is there anything we can learn from the American situation?
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Episode 4 - Towns, Traffic and Tomorrow
Release Date: 1968-02-27Horizon explores the problem of increasing traffic in Britain.
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Episode 5 - The Man Makers
Release Date: 1968-03-12In this episode, Horizon looks into the advances in medical science.
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Episode 6 - Man in Search of Himself
Release Date: 1968-03-26This episode presents the view by G. M. Carstairs, social psychiatrist, about the pleasures and problems of life in Britain in 1968.
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Episode 7 - Investigating Murder
Release Date: 1968-04-09Horizon looks into modern methods of crime investigation.
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Episode 8 - The Equation of Murder
Release Date: 1968-05-07Horizon follows reporter Paul Ferris as he examines the causes and motitives for murder.
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Episode 9 - The Lindemann Enigma
Release Date: 1968-09-12This is the story of the life and career of Winston Churchill's scientific advisor, Lord Cherwell, during World War II.
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Episode 10 - From Field to Factory
Release Date: 1968-09-19Horizon explores "factory farming" techniques for chickens and other livestock.
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Episode 11 - Comfort on Aging
Release Date: 1968-09-26In this episode, Dr. Alex Comfort looks at the scientific evidence for old age and the problems caused by ageing.
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Episode 12 - Experiments in War
Release Date: 1968-10-03Horizon investigates how science is used to enhance weapons of war, tactics, and strategy.
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Episode 13 - Medecine in Russia
Release Date: 1968-10-10In 1917, Russia had fewer than twenty doctors for every million of her people. Today, the figure is over 2,000: almost twice as many as in this country. The organisational changes that were necessary to build a Health Service in the country with the largest share of the earth's surface were vast. The resulting system is very different from ours.
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Episode 14 - African Medicine
Release Date: 1968-10-17In this episode, Horizon looks into controversial medicine practices in Nigeria.
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Episode 15 - The Broken Bridge
Release Date: 1968-10-24This episode by Horizon is about Irene Kassorlas, who's new treatment for autism has produced positive results with mute children.
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Episode 16 - Children Without Words
Release Date: 1968-10-31Horizon reports on speech and comprehension disorders in children, and how to educate them.
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Episode 17 - The Computer Revolution
Release Date: 1968-11-07Horizon explores how computers are changing our way of life.
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Episode 18 - Doctor's Dilemma
Release Date: 1968-11-14Horizon reports on the effects of the birth control pill on the body and how the pill can effect the changes in glucose metabolism.
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Episode 19 - In the Matter of Dr. Alfred Nobel
Release Date: 1968-11-21This is the fictional drama about the evidence for and against the charges that Dr. Alfred Noble misused his invention of dynamite.
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Episode 20 - Wheels Within Wheels
Release Date: 1968-11-28Horizon explores the possibility that our civilization as a whole can be viewed as a pattern based on the wheel.
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Episode 21 - Black Man, White Science
Release Date: 1968-12-05In this episode, Horizon investigates the study of science by african americans.
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Episode 22 - The Hidden World
Release Date: 1968-12-12In this episode, Horizon reports on the exploration and survey of the oceans of the world.
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Episode 23 - The Talgai Skull
Release Date: 1968-12-19Prof. N.W.G. MacIntosh investigates the origin of the Talgai Skull found in Australia in 1886.
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Episode 24 - Phantasmagoria or The Story of the Magic Lantern
Release Date: 1968-12-24In this episode of Horizon, Michael Balfour invites us to share in the mystery and magic of the "Magic Lantern".