Horizon es la serie documental de ciencia de 50 minutos de la BBC Two. En septiembre de 2004 celebró su 40 aniversario y continúa disfrutando de excelentes críticas. Reconocido como el líder mundial en su campo, regularmente gana una amplia gama de reconocimientos internacionales de ciencia, medicina y medioambiente, y recientemente ganó el Royal Television Society Award y el Prix Italia. En 2002, la Academia Británica de Artes Cinematográficas y de Televisión le otorgó a Horizon el Premio de Televisión BAFTA por Mejor Serie de Hechos o Strand. En 2003 ganó el prestigioso premio Images et Science al mejor documental médico y el Premio Carl von Linne en el festival de cine Living Europe en Suecia. Ese año, una coproducción de Horizon con WGBH Boston ganó el Emmy al mejor documental.
Horizon (Temporada 33)
The Butchers of Boxgrove (Episodio 1)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-01-08
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Investigates the case of the "Boxgrove Man". Follows archaeologist Mark Roberts who tries to piece together the history of the first Englishman, from a shin bone nearly 500,000 years old, discovered in Boxgrove in Sussex.
Fermat's Last Theorem (Episodio 2) 7.0
Fecha de emisión: 1996-01-15
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Tells the story of mathematician Andrew Wiles who has made it his life's work to solve the puzzle of Fermat's last theorem that has baffled minds for three centuries.
A Miracle for Cancer ? (Episodio 3)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-01-22
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Examines the latest research aimed at conquering cancer. Includes research into vaccines for prostate cancer and skin cancer.
Nature's Numbers (Episodio 4)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-01-29
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Follows a group of biologists Conservation International who take a pragmatic approach to what species can be saved.They travel to the Bolivian rainforest to assess missing species.
The Gene Race (Episodio 5)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-02-05
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Follows two teams of researchers, in Britain and USA as they use radically different genetic techniques in the race to find an effective treatment against cystic fibrosis.
Masters of the Ionosphere (Episodio 6)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-02-12
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Recounts the history of scientific attempts from Marconi onwards to understand the atmospheric layer, known as the ionosphere. Discusses interest shown by the US Military in the region which has led to the establishment of HAARP (High Altitude Auroral Research Project) which will beam energy directly into the ionosphere.
Assault on the Male (revisited) (Episodio 7)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-02-26
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Are changes in modern living increasing levels of oestrogen and threatening males of different species, from alligators to humans?
Death by Design (Episodio 8)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-03-04
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: In this Horizon documentary, we look at the notion that each cell in our body is programmed to die. Understanding this concept has major implications for research into disease.
The Planet Hunters (Episodio 9)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-03-11
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Follows astronomers from Manchester, Switzerland and California as they search for planets with liquid water on them, the prerequisite for life
Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update) (Episodio 10)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-03-25
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: In this episode of Horizon, which is a follow-up to the 1991 documentary, we follow a group of soviet scientists on a suicide mission as they search for the missing nuclear fuel inside the remains of the nuclear reactor 4.
Fallout from Chernobyl (Episodio 11)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-04-01
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Reports on the work by scientists Dr Keith Baverstock and Sir Dillwyn Williams to confirm that the outbreak of thyroid cancer in children in Belarus and the Ukraine was due to the Chernobyl disaster.
TV is Dead, Long Live TV (Episodio 12)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-11-04
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: In this documentary, Horizon compares the future of television with the years of experimentation before the first BBC broadcasts in 1936.
Aliens from Mars (Episodio 13)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-11-11
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: An investigation into claims that life once existed on Mars. NASA scientists and their critics discuss the fossils discovered in a small meteoric rock in Antarctica earlier in 1996.
Living Death (Episodio 14)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-11-25
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Looks at new treatments for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Focuses on the case of Geoffrey Wildsmith who was misdiagnosed as being PVS. He had awoken from his coma but was totally paralysed and unable to communicate. After two years he was transferred and it was found he could communicate by using a buzzer connected to a highly sensitive pressure-switch.
The Time Lords (Episodio 15)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-12-02
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: An investigation into claims by researchers that time travel is not only theoretically possible but is already happening.
Noah's Flood (Episodio 16)
Fecha de emisión: 1996-12-16
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Follows the work of geologists Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman, who for twenty five years have been investigating evidence for the location of the biblical flood and Noah's Ark.
