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Horizon (Season 22)
Colourful Notions (Episode 1)
Air date: 1985-01-07
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Documentary about colour perception based on the theories of Dr. Edwin Land, which oppose the long-held three-receptor theory of colour vision
A World of Their Own (Episode 2)
Air date: 1985-01-14
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon takes a look at consultant psychiatrists.
Decoding Danebury (Episode 3)
Air date: 1985-01-21
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon looks at the way modern archaeologists extract information from a site dig.
A Mission to Heal (Episode 4)
Air date: 1985-01-28
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: This Horizon episode is about a hospital in the African country of Kenya where the medical staff tells of a new approach to health care among the Pokot tribe.
Mystery of the Left Hand (Episode 5)
Air date: 1985-02-04
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: In this episode, Horizon explores the characteristics of left-handed people.
The Theatre of War (Episode 6)
Air date: 1985-02-11
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon examines new military technology which will come to dominate the battlefields of the future.
The Careful Predator (Episode 7)
Air date: 1985-02-25
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: This episode of Horizon is about the controversial policy in African nation of Zimbabwe of encouraging villagers to allow wild animals back onto their land.
What Einstein Never Knew (Episode 8)
Air date: 1985-03-04
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: This documentary by Horizon attempts to explain the advances in physics in the search for the ultimate equation that explains the meaning of life, the universe, and everything else in existence.
Eurekaaargh! (Episode 9)
Air date: 1985-03-11
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon brings you a report by Robert Symes who offers ten golden guidelines on how to be a successful inventor.
Careering On (Episode 10)
Air date: 1985-03-18
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: This is a Horizon follow-up report on the careers of seven British teenagers studying Science 'O' levels back in 1978.
How to Film the Impossible (Episode 11)
Air date: 1985-03-25
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: This episode of Horizon looks at how the world's best special effects technicians create some of Hollywood's most spectacular film scenes.
The Food Allergy War (Episode 12)
Air date: 1985-04-01
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon investigates how food allergy has developed from the 1950's to the present.
The Goddess of the Earth (Episode 13)
Air date: 1985-04-15
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon examines a hypothesis that life itself manipulates the planet to enhance it's own survival.
IRAS - The Supercooled Eye (Episode 14)
Air date: 1985-04-22
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: This Horizon documentary examines the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) which has detected evidence of planetary systems around distant stars.
A Prize Discovery (Episode 15)
Air date: 1985-04-29
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon reports on the current medical treatment of Malaria and Leukemia.
The Wrong Stuff (Episode 16)
Air date: 1985-05-13
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Eighty per cent of all crashes are caused by 'human error'. Finding out what that means in terms of human behaviour has been called the last great frontier in aviation safety.
