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 - The Twenty-Five Hour Clock
Release Date: 1987-01-05Report on research into biological body clocks, which can effect emotional and physical health and well-being.
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Episode 2 - The Search for the Disappeared
Release Date: 1987-01-12Report on how forensic scientists ae identifying individual victims amongst the people murdered by Argentina's military juntas, by examination and genetic testing of their remains.
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Episode 3 - The Blind Watchmaker
Release Date: 1987-01-19In this interview by Horizon, zoologist Richard Dawkins investigates an attack on evolution by scientific creationists, based on the book of the same name by the famous zoologist.
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Episode 4 - Riding the Stack
Release Date: 1987-01-26Astronauts and space shuttle designers talk about the risks of space flight, in the light of the space shuttle disaster of January 1986.
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Episode 5 - Bruno Bettelheim: The Man Who Cared for Children
Release Date: 1987-02-02Two part documentary on psychologist Bruno Bettelheim and his work with emotionally disturbed children.
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Episode 6 - Bruno Bettelheim: A Sense of Surviving
Release Date: 1987-02-09Two part documentary on psychologist Bruno Bettelheim and his work with emotionally disturbed children.
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Episode 7 - Energy from Outer Space
Release Date: 1987-02-16Report on exploration into releasing energy sources which came from outer space during the formation of the earth, 4,500 million years ago, and have lain dormant under the earth's crust. In Sweden a five mile deep drill hole was made to unleash this energy.
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Episode 8 - The Return of the Osprey
Release Date: 1987-02-23Documentary on the Osprey in north east America, where its natural habitat was being damaged by the use of DDT, but after some conservation work the Osprey is returning to the area.
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Episode 9 - Can AIDS Be Stopped?
Release Date: 1987-03-02Report on the development of the AIDS virus, and current research into vaccines to combat the disease.
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Episode 10 - Police Stress: The John Wayne Syndrome
Release Date: 1987-03-09Documentary on the increasing pressure put on the British police resulting in stress and psychological disorders, and also on the work of Dr. Douglas Duckworth, a psychologist at Leeds University who has worked with the police on these problems.
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Episode 11 - To Engineer Is Human
Release Date: 1987-03-16Engineer Henry Petroski explains why engineering can never be an exact science and looks at examples of engineering failures.
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Episode 12 - The Magma Chamber
Release Date: 1987-03-23Report on the research into volcanoes by British scientists Professor Geoff Brow n and Dr. Hazel Rymer, who have developed a technique of exploring the magma chambers of volcanoes and predicting when they will erupt.
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Episode 13 - Broken Images
Release Date: 1987-03-30Report on two sufferers of visual agnosia. The condition affects their ability to impose order on the visual world, even though they are not blind, but it does reveal a great deal about normal perception.
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Episode 14 - Trial Babies
Release Date: 1987-04-06Report on the different tests done on pregnant women to detect abnormalities in the foetus, with investigation of why these tests are not available in all pregnancies.
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Episode 15 - After Chernobyl - Closer to Home
Release Date: 1987-04-13Report on the safety of UK nuclear power stations, following the accident at Chernobyl in the USSR in 1986. The programme focuses on the nuclear installation at Hartlepool on Teeside, which has the smallest evacuation zone in the western world.
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Episode 16 - Making Sex Pay
Release Date: 1987-05-11James Gould, Professor of Biology at Princeton University, lectures on the mating habits of animals and humans.
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Episode 17 - The Anthropic Principle
Release Date: 1987-05-18Discussion of the Anthropic Principle, a scientific theory for man's place in th e Universe.
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Episode 19 - Aircrash: The Burning Issue
Release Date: 1987-06-01Report on the need for improved safety features on airplanes in particular the desirability of smoke hoods, plus an interview with a survivor of the 1985 Manchester aircrash.
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Episode 20 - The Riddle of the Joints
Release Date: 1987-06-08Report on research into rheumatoid arthritis.
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Episode 21 - To Catch a Falling Star
Release Date: 1987-05-15Report on the future and commercial benefit of research into astronomy conducted by the Royal Greenwich Observatory and other scientific institutions in Great Britain.
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Episode 22 - In the Light of New Information
Release Date: 1987-06-22Report on the evolution of laser light technology for communication in the 21st century, with a dramatised account of the effect of the technology on our daily lives.
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Episode 23 - Janice's Choice
Release Date: 1987-06-29Janice Blenkharn's mother died of Huntington's Chorea, which any child of a victim has a 50-50 chance of inheriting. Janice is faced with the choice of having a test, developed after research in South America, to see if she has this incurable genetic disease.