Horizon (1964)
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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7.4/10
- Country: GB
- Language: English
- Runtime: 60
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Episode 1 - Wildlife - The Last Great Battle
Release Date: 1971-01-04In this episode, Horizon looks a the efforts of zoos to save animal species from extinction by breeding enough to ensure their survival in captivity
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Episode 2 - Great Ormond Street
Release Date: 1971-01-18In this episode, Horizon looks at the renowned British hospital for children, Great Ormond Street, and the Institute of Child Health.
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Episode 3 - A Bulldozer Through Heaven
Release Date: 1971-01-25Horizon explores the island of New Guinea and its cultural changes going on there.
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Episode 4 - Rumors of War
Release Date: 1971-02-01This episode of Horizon looks at the growing arsenal of nuclear weapons over the last 25 years and the effects it has on the arms race.
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Episode 5 - I'm Dependent - You're Addicted (I)
Release Date: 1971-02-15The first of a two-programme investigation in which Horizon and Man Alive have combined forces. This episode investigates the facts about drug abuse and experimental work undertaken in this area.
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Episode 6 - Kuru - To Tremble with Fear
Release Date: 1971-02-22Kuru is a unique disease of the people of New Guinea. Horizon goes with Prof. E. J. Field to find out why.
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Episode 7 - Due to a Lack of Interest, Tomorrow Has Been Canceled
Release Date: 1971-03-08Horizon interviews ecologists that claim that man is irrevocably destroying its habitat.
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Episode 8 - What Kind of Doctor?
Release Date: 1971-03-15Horizon investigates medical student training at the St. Thomas hospital in London, England.
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Episode 9 - A Nice Sort of Accident to Have
Release Date: 1971-03-22Horizon explores the causes, and looks for way to prevent car accidents
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Episode 10 - The Wood
Release Date: 1971-04-05This report by Horizon looks at the long term ecological study of the forest at Wytham Wood, Oxon, in England.
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Episode 11 - The Measure of Man
Release Date: 1971-04-12In 1971, Horizon reviews the life and work of Prof. Hans Eysnck, the most controversial psychologists of the time.
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Episode 12 - Three Score Years and Then?
Release Date: 1971-04-26This report by Horizon explores care for the aged, for both medical and welfare services in Britain.
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Episode 13 - Darwin's Bulldog
Release Date: 1971-05-03Horizon reports on the famous protagonist of "The Origin of Species," Thomas Henry Huxley.
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Episode 14 - The Secret
Release Date: 1971-05-10This episode of Horizon examines how cells organize to become complex organs, and bodies.
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Episode 15 - What Every Girl Should Know
Release Date: 1971-05-17At the moment, legal abortions in the UK are being performed at the rate of over 90,000 a year and it is considered that the number is likely to rise. But why are so many people not prepared to use contraceptives? Are the contraceptives themselves at fault or is it part of a deep-rooted attitude to sex? A drug is now being tested which makes it possible for a woman to procure her own abortion in the first few weeks of pregnancy.
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Episode 16 - Tastes of Foods to Come
Release Date: 1971-05-24Horizon reports on food technology now experimenting with meat substitutes.
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Episode 17 - Looking for a Happy Landing
Release Date: 1971-05-31Within 20 years vertical take-off airliners could be hovering over Hampstead and Dulwich before landing, one a minute, day and night, at a Thames-side V-port. Horizon looks at what could be one of the great environmental debates of the century to have, or not to have, aircraft flying in and out of city centres.
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Episode 18 - A Case of Depression
Release Date: 1971-06-07Horizon investigates how to treat depressive illneses.
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Episode 19 - The Total War Machine
Release Date: 1971-06-14This episode of Horizon reports on the development of the aircraft bomber throughout periods of war.
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Episode 20 - The Dinosaur Hunters
Release Date: 1971-06-21Horizon explores the field of palaeontology, the study of dinosaurs.
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Episode 21 - Your Country Needs You?
Release Date: 1971-09-27This episode of Horizon looks at Britain's civil defense program, and to see if it is adequate in the event of a nuclear war.
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Episode 22 - Rheumatism
Release Date: 1971-10-04Horizon investigates rheumatism, and looks at why this disease is under-researched.
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Episode 23 - If at First You Don't Succeed... You Don't Succeed
Release Date: 1971-10-11Can new born babies solve complex problems? Horizon works with psychologists to see how they measure this capacity.
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Episode 24 - One Liverpool or Two?
Release Date: 1971-10-18Do city planners in Liverpool have unrealistic expectations? Horizon looks into the development and planning process of Liverpool, England.
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Episode 25 - Rutherford / The Cavendish Today
Release Date: 1971-10-25This is a two part episode of Horizon. First, Horizon looks at the life of centenary Ernest Rutherford, followed by a report of the Cavendish Labratory in Cambridge, England.
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Episode 26 - The Fierce People
Release Date: 1971-11-01Horizon explores a primitive tribe of Yanomamo Indians living in southern Venezula.
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Episode 27 - The Men Who Painted Caves
Release Date: 1971-11-15This episode of Horizon looks in the ancient cave paintings found in France.
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Episode 28 - The Crab Nebula
Release Date: 1971-11-22This episode of Horizon reports on how the Crab Nebula was discovered, and continuing observation of the space encounter.
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Episode 29 - Can Venice Survive?
Release Date: 1971-11-29Horizon reports on the continuing problem of the city of Venice, Italy sinking into the sea.
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Episode 30 - Willingly to School?
Release Date: 1971-12-06This report by Horizon is about Prof. Hean Piaget and her child center education theory.
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Episode 31 - The Periscope War
Release Date: 1971-12-20Horizon presents the history of the submarines, from pre-World War I to today's nuclear powered submarines.
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Episode 32 - Patently Absurd
Release Date: 1971-12-27This episode of Horizon investigates strange new inventions.