Horizon (1964)
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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7.3/10
- Country: GB
- Language: English
- Runtime: 60
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Episode 1 - Inside Every Fat Man
Release Date: 1969-01-02Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.
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Episode 2 - If Only They Could Speak
Release Date: 1969-01-09A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.
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Episode 3 - The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye
Release Date: 1969-01-16Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.
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Episode 4 - The Years of the Locust
Release Date: 1969-01-23In this episode, Horizon reports on how in the last 2 years, the desert locust has been breeding in Southern Arabia by the Red Sea.
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Episode 5 - The Gifted Child
Release Date: 1969-01-30Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.
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Episode 6 - The Last of the Polymaths
Release Date: 1969-02-06This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.
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Episode 7 - Music and the Mind
Release Date: 1969-02-13Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.
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Episode 8 - Report on V.D.
Release Date: 1969-02-20This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.
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Episode 9 - Extra-Sensory Perception
Release Date: 1969-02-27In scientific circles extra-sensory perception is a subject which has never failed to arouse controversy and skepticism. Cecil King, having spent a lifetime in Fleet Street, discusses, with due caution, a subject which he believes might be of primary importance to scientists in the coming century.
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Episode 10 - The Drift from Science
Release Date: 1969-03-06This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.
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Episode 11 - Powers of Persuasion
Release Date: 1969-03-13This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.
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Episode 12 - The View from Space
Release Date: 1969-03-20Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.
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Episode 13 - The Unborn Patient
Release Date: 1969-03-27Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.
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Episode 14 - The Physicist in the Kitchen
Release Date: 1969-04-03Nicholas Kurti, Professor of Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, specializes in the field of low temperature science. He is acknowledged among his friends as an expert in the kitchen.
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Episode 15 - King Solomon's Garden
Release Date: 1969-04-10This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.
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Episode 16 - Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow
Release Date: 1969-04-24Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.
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Episode 17 - Shark
Release Date: 1969-05-01In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.
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Episode 18 - Technology and Self-Determination
Release Date: 1969-05-15Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.
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Episode 19 - After Apollo
Release Date: 1969-05-22The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.
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Episode 20 - Discovery
Release Date: 1969-05-29Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.
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Episode 21 - Machines and People
Release Date: 1969-06-05The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
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Episode 22 - Science on Safari
Release Date: 1969-09-15The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
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Episode 23 - A True Madness
Release Date: 1969-09-22Schizophrenia is an unsolved mystery of modern medicine. Horizon looks at some of the possible explanations and their relevance not only to schizophrenics but to the mystery of the human mind.
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Episode 24 - Problems of Pain
Release Date: 1969-09-29In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.
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Episode 25 - Four Fast Legs and a Nose
Release Date: 1969-10-06Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.
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Episode 26 - Father of the Man
Release Date: 1969-10-13Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.
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Episode 27 - Master of the Microscope
Release Date: 1969-10-20In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.
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Episode 28 - C.E.R.N.
Release Date: 1969-10-27Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.
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Episode 29 - Snap, Crackle and Bang
Release Date: 1969-11-03The props for this programme are pistols, muskets and, above all, explosives. For 30 years now these are what Colonel Brian Shaw, marksman and lecturer in chemistry, has been using in his now famous lecture on explosives. He gave it once again for Horizon before an invited audience at University College, London.
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Episode 30 - Cancer Now
Release Date: 1969-11-10A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.
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Episode 31 - There's a Rhino in My Sugar
Release Date: 1969-11-17For some time now rhinos have been disturbing the workers in the Tanzanian sugar plantation and ripping open the plastic water pipes to get at the water. These incidents, and the hunting of the rhinos by helicopter, are typical of the increasing conflict between wildlife and man for land in East Africa.
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Episode 32 - Fit to Live?
Release Date: 1969-11-24Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.
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Episode 33 - Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs
Release Date: 1969-12-01Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.
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Episode 34 - How Much Do You Drink?
Release Date: 1969-12-08Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.
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Episode 35 - A Game of War
Release Date: 1969-12-15Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.
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Episode 36 - Bread
Release Date: 1969-12-22Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.
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Episode 37 - For the Safety of Mankind
Release Date: 1969-12-29Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.