Horizon (1964)
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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1965x01 Learning from Machines
06 January, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon looks into the principles behind machines and investigates why they are so successful.
1965x02 The Technique of Change
20 January, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of the most important research and development centers where more than 4000 scientists work with a budget of one hundred million pounds every year. Horizon investigates the possibility of setting up a similar research station in Britain.
1965x03 Star Gazers
03 February, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the universe and learn how stars are created.
1965x04 Science and Art
17 February, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores artists attitudes towards science.
1965x05 The Great Computer Scandal
03 March, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, Horizon looks at the H-Bomb Detectors and how British scientists have developed a nuclear explosion detector which has changed the political outlook for nuclear test controls.
1965x06 Faster, Farther, Higher
17 March, 1965 9:00 pm
The episode was shot from a biplane taking off and flying over the CERN Nuclear Physics Laboratory in Switzerland. Colin Riach interviews Dr. Lipman from the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory where an experiment is running to find out if there is a fifth force in the Universe. Colin Riach also interviews De Vos by Gordon Rattray Taylor on his theories about mental illness and geographical location.
1965x07 Restless Genius
31 March, 1965 9:00 pm
A tribute by Professor E. N. da C. Andrade to
Robert Hooke architect, astronomer, geologist, and meteorologist who discovered the cell, the unit of living tissue, in plants 300 years ago and A report by Professor R. D. Preston
On thirty-six years of attempts to elucidate the baffling structure of plant cell walls
Faster, Farther, Higher - A Hungarian film-maker takes a wry look at man's attempts to accelerate with a commentary by Anthony Smith
1965x09 The Big Smoke
12 May, 1965 9:00 pm
Nine years after the passing of the Clean Air Act, where do we stand? Scientists are gradually finding out why dirty air Is so harmful to ill persons with Dr. P. J. Lawther of Air Pollution Research Centre at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
1965x10 The Long Slide
26 May, 1965 9:00 pm
When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water and begin to 'aquaplane.' Scientists are studying this fact which creates a real hazard to aircraft passengers and fast drivers.
Also: Men With Gills - A new membrane developed in America holds forth the prospect of men being able to live under water.
1965x11 Men and Sharks
09 June, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets with the eminent physiologist Sir Henry Dale as he celebrates his 90th birthday and looks back on his career in medical research.
1965x12 The Sudden Light
23 June, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon looks into the study of a total eclipse, and reports on a new machine and its potential to teach deaf children to speak.
1965x13 Dr. Joseph Needham
14 July, 1965 9:00 pm
This episode of Horizon features Dr. Joseph Needham, an eminent scientist and humanist who is perhaps the greatest living authority on China.
1965x14 Science Fiction: Science Fact?
28 July, 1965 9:00 pm
Is all science fiction mercly fantasy-or can it give valuable clues to the future?
Also: Desmond Morris interviews naturalist George Schaller about his work with gorillas studying their behavior in the wild, and work studying tigers in the wild.
1965x15 Certain of Uncertainty
11 August, 1965 9:00 pm
The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and George Thompson meet and discuss topic with John Charap at the annual science conference in Lindau, Germany.
1965x16 Time Stood Still
25 August, 1965 9:00 pm
Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has won international recognition for his achievements in ultra-high-speed photography, talks about his work and shows some of the remarkable pictures, both still and moving, that he has taken.
Also: Weighty Matters - Robin Clarke , Editor of .Science Journal, talks to Dr. Kilmister of King's College, London, about gravitational collapse and new developments in cosmology.
1965x17 Fuel for the Future
08 September, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific books which he was about to sell.
1965x18 Let Newton Be
22 September, 1965 9:00 pm
On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of his most ardent disciples, Prof. Julius Summer-Miller, comes from California to illustrate the excitement of seeing Newton's principles in action.
1965x19 Special Senses
10 October, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon investigates Dr. Gregory's viaduct experiment which involved looking at an object at night through the arches of a viaduct in order to test the effects of night on the accuracy of human vision.
1965x20 An Affair of the Heart
24 October, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.
1965x22 Toil, Sweat & Tears
21 November, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon profiles the scientist, polymath, and Nobel prize winner Prof. Albert Szent-Gyorgi.
1965x23 The Big Dishes and the Living Stream
05 December, 1965 9:00 pm
Horizon looks into radio telescopes.
1965x24 Boys on Bubbles
19 December, 1965 9:00 pm
Professor Charles Vernon Boys gives a Christmas lecture on bubbles.
Also: Problems and Puzzles - T. H. O'Beirne , a mathematician, challenges you to solve some of the puzzles he has invented.
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