1967
Episodes • 1967

1. Sons of Cain
60 minHorizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?
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2. When Is a Body Dead? / How to Win Friends and Influence People
60 minMedical advances have made it possible for 'life' to be maintained in an unconscious patient who has irrevocable brain damage and who might also be dependent on artificial aids to circulation and respiration. Is it now meaningless to define 'death' as the cessation of a heart beat? Why do so many people have difficulty In communicating, or in simply getting-on with other people? Psychologists have now begun to analyse aspects of social behaviour in a way which they believe will lead to more pleasant and more effective human relationships.
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3. How Best to Make a Man / How Best to Make a Scientist
60 minIn 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.
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4. Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday
60 minHorizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.
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5. Migraine
60 minHorizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.
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6. How Safe Is Surgery?
60 minHorizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.
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7. Sleep and Dreams
60 minJoel, a healthy young American, is reduced to a restless neurotic state after being deprived of his dreams for three nights. Mr Bates, an eighty-four-year-old ex-milk man, has never dreamed in his life, or so he says until he is woken by scientists in the middle of a dream trip to New York.
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8. The Shape of War to Come
60 minWill the next major war be fought with biological and chemical weapons? What are the available weapons? What is the horror they can cause? Is there any moral justification for their use?
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10. Masters of the Desert
60 minHorizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.
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11. Cancer - The Search for the Virus
60 minIn this the first of two programmes dealing with cancer, Horizon looks at the intensive search now going on to discover whether a virus is one of the causes of cancer in humans and at the implications of this search in the treatment for such killer diseases as leukemia.
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12. Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble
60 minWhy is there doubt in so many people's minds about the relationship between lung cancer and smoking? Tonight's programme examines the latest scientific evidence in detail.
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13. Science and the Supernatural
60 minHorizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).
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14. Hypnosis
60 minHorizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.
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15. The War of the Boffins
60 minDuring the human struggles between the British and German air forces ... another conflict was going on step by step, month by month. This was a secret war whose battles were lost or won unknown to the public: and only with difficulty is it comprehended even now by those outside the smalt high scientific circles concerned.
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17. Aspects of Alcohol
60 minHorizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbon 14 used for determining how old an object is.
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18. Lords of the Sea
60 minHorizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.
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19. Will Art Last?
60 minIn this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.
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20. Air Safety: The Unknown Factor
60 minHorizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.
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21. The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary
60 minHorizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.
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22. Koestler on Creativity
60 minArthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.
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23. The World of Ted Serios
60 minHorizon 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.
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24. Professor in Toyland
60 minProf. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.
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