Horizon (1964)

1969

January 2, 1969 37 Episodes

Episodes

Episode 1

Inside Every Fat Man

Jan 2, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 2

If Only They Could Speak

Jan 9, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 3

The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye

Jan 16, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 4

The Years of the Locust

Jan 23, 1969

60 minutes

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.

Episode 5

The Gifted Child

Jan 30, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 6

The Last of the Polymaths

Feb 6, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 7

Music and the Mind

Feb 13, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 8

Report on V.D.

Feb 20, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 9

Extra-Sensory Perception

Feb 27, 1969

60 minutes

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.

Episode 10

The Drift from Science

Mar 6, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 11

Powers of Persuasion

Mar 13, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 12

The View from Space

Mar 20, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 13

The Unborn Patient

Mar 27, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 14

The Physicist in the Kitchen

Apr 3, 1969

60 minutes

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.

Episode 15

King Solomon's Garden

Apr 10, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 16

Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow

Apr 24, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 17

Shark

May 1, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 18

Technology and Self-Determination

May 15, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 19

After Apollo

May 22, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 20

Discovery

May 29, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 21

Machines and People

Jun 5, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 22

Science on Safari

Sep 15, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 23

A True Madness

Sep 22, 1969

60 minutes

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.

Episode 24

Problems of Pain

Sep 29, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 25

Four Fast Legs and a Nose

Oct 6, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 26

Father of the Man

Oct 13, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 27

Master of the Microscope

Oct 20, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 28

C.E.R.N.

Oct 27, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 29

Snap, Crackle and Bang

Nov 3, 1969

60 minutes

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.

Episode 30

Cancer Now

Nov 10, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 31

There's a Rhino in My Sugar

Nov 17, 1969

60 minutes

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.

Episode 32

Fit to Live?

Nov 24, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 33

Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs

Dec 1, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 34

How Much Do You Drink?

Dec 8, 1969

60 minutes

Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.

Episode 35

A Game of War

Dec 15, 1969

60 minutes

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

Episode 36

Bread

Dec 22, 1969

60 minutes

Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.

Episode 37

For the Safety of Mankind

Dec 29, 1969

60 minutes

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