1969
Episodes • 1969

1. Inside Every Fat Man
60 minHorizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.
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2. If Only They Could Speak
60 minA 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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3. The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye
60 minHorizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.
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4. The Years of the Locust
60 minIn 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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5. The Gifted Child
60 minHorizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.
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6. The Last of the Polymaths
60 minThis 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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7. Music and the Mind
60 minHorizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.
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8. Report on V.D.
60 minThis investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.
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9. Extra-Sensory Perception
60 minIn 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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10. The Drift from Science
60 minThis report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.
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11. Powers of Persuasion
60 minThis 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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12. The View from Space
60 minHorizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.
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13. The Unborn Patient
60 minHorizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.
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14. The Physicist in the Kitchen
60 minNicholas 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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15. King Solomon's Garden
60 minThis episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.
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16. Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow
60 minHorizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.
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17. Shark
60 minIn this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.
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18. Technology and Self-Determination
60 minSebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.
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19. After Apollo
60 minThe US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.
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20. Discovery
60 minHorizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.
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21. Machines and People
60 minThe Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
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22. Science on Safari
60 minThe Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
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23. A True Madness
60 minSchizophrenia 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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24. Problems of Pain
60 minIn 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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25. Four Fast Legs and a Nose
60 minHorizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.
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26. Father of the Man
60 minHorizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.
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27. Master of the Microscope
60 minIn this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.
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28. C.E.R.N.
60 minHorizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.
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29. Snap, Crackle and Bang
60 minThe 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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30. Cancer Now
60 minA report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.
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31. There's a Rhino in My Sugar
60 minFor 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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32. Fit to Live?
60 minHorizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.
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33. Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs
60 minHorizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.
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34. How Much Do You Drink?
60 minHorizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.
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35. A Game of War
60 minHorizon 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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37. For the Safety of Mankind
60 minHorizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.
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