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 - Awakening the Frozen Addicts
Release Date: 1993-01-04Horizons presents a report on a daring Swedish operation that transplants foetal tissue into the brains of Parkinson's disease sufferers.
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Episode 2 - Cheating Time
Release Date: 1993-01-11Horizon investigates the current benefits and disadvantages of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).
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Episode 3 - TB - The Forgotten Plague
Release Date: 1993-01-18This Horizon episode is about the new and terrible threat from tuberculosis which kills more people than any other infection.
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Episode 4 - No Ordinary Genius (1)
Release Date: 1993-01-25This is the first part of a two-part Horizon series presenting a portrait of Richard Feynman, the American Nobel Prize winning physicist.
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Episode 5 - No Ordinary Genius (2)
Release Date: 1993-02-01This is the second part of a two-part Horizon series presenting a portrait of Richard Feynman, the American Nobel Prize winning physicist.
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Episode 6 - Mars Alive
Release Date: 1993-02-08This Horizon episode attempts to answer the question if it will be possible to 'terraform' Mars by creating a new atmosphere, and then adding water and plants to make the planet habitable.
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Episode 7 - Suggers, Fruggers and Data-Muggers
Release Date: 1993-02-15Horizon investigates how market research, opinion polls, TV ratings, and consumer surveys have got it disastrously wrong. Commercial decisions depend increasingly on this information, but just how good is that information?
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Episode 8 - The Pyramid Builders
Release Date: 1993-02-22This Horizon documentary looks at how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids without the use of the wheel, ramps, or levers.
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Episode 9 - Here Be Monsters
Release Date: 1993-03-01This documentary by Horizon looks at how the Hubble space telescope is uncovering evidence of black holes in our distant galaxies.
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Episode 10 - Iceman (Update)
Release Date: 1993-03-08This is a Horizon update to the story of the Stone Age man found frozen in an Alpine glacier in 1991.
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Episode 11 - Whatever Happened to Star Wars
Release Date: 1993-03-15Horizon shows how American scientists struggled to fulfil the dreams which challenged fundamental scientific laws.
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Episode 12 - Resurrecting the Dead Sea Scrolls
Release Date: 1993-03-22In this episode, Horizon examines the latest scientific evidence about the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Episode 13 - Dante Goes to Hell
Release Date: 1993-03-29Horizon presents the story of a robot named Dante, who goes into an active volcano in Antarctica to find out if volcanoes contribute to the ozone hole in our atmosphere.
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Episode 14 - Ghosts in the Dinosaur Graveyard
Release Date: 1993-04-05Follows a team of archaeologists led by Michael Novacek as they try to retrace the steps of an expedition launched by the American Museum of Natural History in the 1920's. The original expedition sought the origins of humanity but instead came across a virtual graveyard of the dinosaurs.
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Episode 15 - The New Alchemists
Release Date: 1993-04-19Horizon reports on scientists who are planning smart aircraft wings and smart buildings that can sense earthquakes.
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Episode 16 - Allergic to the 20th Century
Release Date: 1993-05-10In this episode, Horizon examines Asthma, the illness that is the most common condition of the developed world.
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Episode 17 - Wot U Looking At?
Release Date: 1993-05-24Horizon looks at causes of violence and asks psychologists to interview men and boys with a record of violence.
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Episode 18 - The Electronic Frontier
Release Date: 1993-06-07In this story, Horizon explores the endless stream of digital information available on demand to the public, but do we need, or even want it?
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Episode 19 - A Vital Poison
Release Date: 1993-06-14Horizon describes how researchers discovered that a lethal gas, called nitric oxide, was behind some of the most basic functions of our bodies.
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Episode 20 - Chimp Talk
Release Date: 1993-06-21This documentary by Horizon looks back into the 1980's where the work of pioneer researchers trying to determine if chimpanzees could understand language was attacked as charlatanism. Now the public opinion has moved back in favour of the idea that apes can indeed talk to us. The program looks at the latest developments in the chimpanzee language laboratories in America.
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Episode 21 - Life is Impossible
Release Date: 1993-06-28Horizon investigates how life began on Earth. Did it evolve on land surfaces on Earth, in the sea, or in space?