Horizon (1964)
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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1981x01 Spend and Prosper
05 January, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.
1981x02 A Whole New Medicine
12 January, 1981 9:00 pm
This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.
1981x03 The Qualyub Project
19 January, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.
1981x04 No-One Will Take Me Seriously
26 January, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.
1981x05 Living With Dying
02 February, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.
1981x06 A is for Atom, B is for Bomb
09 February, 1981 9:00 pm
In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.
1981x07 Who Will Deliver Your Baby?
16 February, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.
1981x08 West of Bangalore
02 March, 1981 9:00 pm
A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.
1981x09 Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts
09 March, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.
1981x10 Hello Universe!
16 March, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.
1981x11 Voices From Silent Hands
23 March, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.
1981x12 Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
30 March, 1981 9:00 pm
In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.
1981x13 East of Bombay
06 April, 1981 9:00 pm
This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are common killers in Indian communities. Also, a report on Salubai, one of these native health workers and her work at Kamkhed in Western India.
1981x14 Resolution on Saturn - The Rings
11 April, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
1981x15 Resolution on Saturn - The Moons
13 April, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
1981x16 Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
28 September, 1981 9:00 pm
In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near where they live.
1981x17 The Hunt for the Legion Killer
05 October, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.
1981x18 Breaking in Children
12 October, 1981 9:00 pm
In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.
1981x19 The Grid
19 October, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierce competition of the French and Italian racings teams by finding ways around new rulings to make their cars first on the grid.
1981x20 Butterflies or Barley?
26 October, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.
1981x21 Science for the People
02 November, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical processing plant from the UK and computers from the USA when they have a quarter of the world's scientists and still give science and research the highest priority.
1981x22 The Race to Ruin
09 November, 1981 9:00 pm
This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for the extensive space defense system to match the Russians based on a misconception of the USSR war effort from space?
1981x23 Death of the Dinosaurs
16 November, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.
1981x24 The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out
23 November, 1981 9:00 pm
Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965. In this documentary he talks about his motivations to be a scientist and a teacher of science.
1981x25 The Cornucopia
30 November, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies which leads to the creation of overproduction of agricultural products. Do they need to reform the policy?
1981x26 The Race Against Time
07 December, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first run.
1981x27 Painting by Numbers
21 December, 1981 9:00 pm
Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It looks at the manipulation of 3-D images to paint, animate, design, and test scientific hypothesis.
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