Horizon (1964)
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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1967x01 Sons of Cain
17 January, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?
1967x03 How Best to Make a Man, How Best to Make a Scientist
17 February, 1967 9:00 pm
In this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. This school uses a competition held for Russian school children to qualify new students.
1967x04 Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday
28 February, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.
1967x05 Migraine
14 March, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.
1967x06 How Safe is Surgery?
28 March, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.
1967x07 Sleep and Dreams
11 April, 1967 9:00 pm
1967x08 The Shape of War to Come
25 April, 1967 9:00 pm
Christopher Chataway presents a program which looks at whether biological and chemical warfare will supercede conventional weapons of war and at the ethical and political implications of such unconventional weapons.
1967x10 Masters of the Desert
23 May, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.
1967x11 Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble
20 June, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon looks at the links between smoking and cancer. Presented by Christopher Chataway.
1967x12 Science and the Supernatural
04 July, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).
1967x13 Hypnosis
18 July, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.
1967x14 The War of the Boffins
12 September, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon looks at the secret war between scientists from Germany and scientists from Britain during the second world war.
1967x15 Aspects of Alcohol
26 September, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbon 14 used for determining how old an object is.
1967x16 Lords of the Sea
10 October, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.
1967x17 Will Art Last?
24 October, 1967 9:00 pm
In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.
1967x18 Air Safety - The Unknown Factor
07 November, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.
1967x19 The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary
21 November, 1967 9:00 pm
An extraordinary and beautiful film shows the hazardous existence of a caterpillar Thaumetopoea Pityocampa.
Sometimes joyful, sometimes pitiful and seemingly innocuous,' the Pine Processionary, as it is more familiarly called, is a wonderful subject for the French film director Robert Enrico ; but the wake of destruction it leaves behind in its struggle for survival has forced French biologists to declare war on the species.
1967x20 Koestler on Creativity
05 December, 1967 9:00 pm
Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.
1967x21 The World of Ted Serios
12 December, 1967 9:00 pm
Horizon looks into the life of Ted Serios who claims to have psychic powers and to be able to project images onto film using only his thoughts.
1967x22 Professor in Toyland
24 December, 1967 9:00 pm
Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.
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