1969

Episodes • 1969

Inside Every Fat Man

1. Inside Every Fat Man

60 min

Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.

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If Only They Could Speak

2. If Only They Could Speak

60 min

A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.

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The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye

3. The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye

60 min

Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.

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The Years of the Locust

4. The Years of the Locust

60 min

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.

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The Gifted Child

5. The Gifted Child

60 min

Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.

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The Last of the Polymaths

6. The Last of the Polymaths

60 min

This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.

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Music and the Mind

7. Music and the Mind

60 min

Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.

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Report on V.D.

8. Report on V.D.

60 min

This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.

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Extra-Sensory Perception

9. Extra-Sensory Perception

60 min

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.

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The Drift from Science

10. The Drift from Science

60 min

This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.

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Powers of Persuasion

11. Powers of Persuasion

60 min

This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.

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The View from Space

12. The View from Space

60 min

Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.

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The Unborn Patient

13. The Unborn Patient

60 min

Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.

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The Physicist in the Kitchen

14. The Physicist in the Kitchen

60 min

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.

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King Solomon's Garden

15. King Solomon's Garden

60 min

This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.

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Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow

16. Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow

60 min

Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.

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Shark

17. Shark

60 min

In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.

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Technology and Self-Determination

18. Technology and Self-Determination

60 min

Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.

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After Apollo

19. After Apollo

60 min

The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.

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Discovery

20. Discovery

60 min

Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.

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Machines and People

21. Machines and People

60 min

The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.

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Science on Safari

22. Science on Safari

60 min

The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.

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A True Madness

23. A True Madness

60 min

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.

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Problems of Pain

24. Problems of Pain

60 min

In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.

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Four Fast Legs and a Nose

25. Four Fast Legs and a Nose

60 min

Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.

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Father of the Man

26. Father of the Man

60 min

Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.

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Master of the Microscope

27. Master of the Microscope

60 min

In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.

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C.E.R.N.

28. C.E.R.N.

60 min

Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.

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Snap, Crackle and Bang

29. Snap, Crackle and Bang

60 min

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.

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Cancer Now

30. Cancer Now

60 min

A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.

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There's a Rhino in My Sugar

31. There's a Rhino in My Sugar

60 min

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.

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Fit to Live?

32. Fit to Live?

60 min

Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.

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Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs

33. Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs

60 min

Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.

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How Much Do You Drink?

34. How Much Do You Drink?

60 min

Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.

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A Game of War

35. A Game of War

60 min

Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.

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Bread

36. Bread

60 min

Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.

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For the Safety of Mankind

37. For the Safety of Mankind

60 min

Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.

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