1969 (1969)
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Episodes 37
Inside Every Fat Man
Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.
Read MoreIf Only They Could Speak
A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.
Read MoreThe Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye
Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.
Read MoreThe Years of the Locust
In this episode, Horizon reports on how in the last 2 years, the desert locust has been breeding in Southern Arabia by the Red Sea.
Read MoreThe Gifted Child
Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.
Read MoreThe Last of the Polymaths
This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.
Read MoreMusic and the Mind
Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.
Read MoreReport on V.D.
This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.
Read MoreExtra-Sensory Perception
In 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.
Read MoreThe Drift from Science
This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.
Read MorePowers of Persuasion
This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.
Read MoreThe View from Space
Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.
Read MoreThe Unborn Patient
Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.
Read MoreThe Physicist in the Kitchen
Nicholas 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.
Read MoreKing Solomon's Garden
This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.
Read MoreMuck Today, Poison Tomorrow
Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.
Read MoreTechnology and Self-Determination
Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.
Read MoreAfter Apollo
The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.
Read MoreMachines and People
The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
Read MoreScience on Safari
The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
Read MoreA True Madness
Schizophrenia 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.
Read MoreProblems of Pain
In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.
Read MoreFour Fast Legs and a Nose
Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.
Read MoreFather of the Man
Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.
Read MoreMaster of the Microscope
In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.
Read MoreSnap, Crackle and Bang
The 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.
Read MoreCancer Now
A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.
Read MoreThere's a Rhino in My Sugar
For 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.
Read MoreFit to Live?
Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.
Read MoreDon't Cackle, Lay Eggs
Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.
Read MoreHow Much Do You Drink?
Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.
Read MoreA Game of War
Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.
Read MoreFor the Safety of Mankind
Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.
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