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 6)
Inside Every Fat Man (Episodio 1)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-01-02
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.
If Only They Could Speak (Episodio 2)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-01-09
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.
The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye (Episodio 3)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-01-16
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.
The Years of the Locust (Episodio 4)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-01-23
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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.
The Gifted Child (Episodio 5)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-01-30
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.
The Last of the Polymaths (Episodio 6)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-02-06
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.
Music and the Mind (Episodio 7)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-02-13
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.
Report on V.D. (Episodio 8)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-02-20
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.
Extra-Sensory Perception (Episodio 9)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-02-27
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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.
The Drift from Science (Episodio 10)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-03-06
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.
Powers of Persuasion (Episodio 11)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-03-13
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.
The View from Space (Episodio 12)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-03-20
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.
The Unborn Patient (Episodio 13)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-03-27
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.
The Physicist in the Kitchen (Episodio 14)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-04-03
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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.
King Solomon's Garden (Episodio 15)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-04-10
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.
Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow (Episodio 16)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-04-24
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.
Shark (Episodio 17)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-05-01
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.
Technology and Self-Determination (Episodio 18)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-05-15
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.
After Apollo (Episodio 19)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-05-22
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.
Discovery (Episodio 20)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-05-29
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.
Machines and People (Episodio 21)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-06-05
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
Science on Safari (Episodio 22)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-09-15
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
A True Madness (Episodio 23)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-09-22
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Problems of Pain (Episodio 24)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-09-29
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.
Four Fast Legs and a Nose (Episodio 25)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-10-06
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.
Father of the Man (Episodio 26)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-10-13
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.
Master of the Microscope (Episodio 27)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-10-20
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.
C.E.R.N. (Episodio 28)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-10-27
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.
Snap, Crackle and Bang (Episodio 29)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-11-03
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Cancer Now (Episodio 30)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-11-10
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.
There's a Rhino in My Sugar (Episodio 31)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-11-17
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fit to Live? (Episodio 32)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-11-24
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.
Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs (Episodio 33)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-12-01
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.
How Much Do You Drink? (Episodio 34)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-12-08
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.
A Game of War (Episodio 35)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-12-15
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.
Bread (Episodio 36)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-12-22
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.
For the Safety of Mankind (Episodio 37)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-12-29
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.
