Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Horizon (Season 6)
Inside Every Fat Man (Episode 1)
Air date: 1969-01-02
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.
If Only They Could Speak (Episode 2)
Air date: 1969-01-09
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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 (Episode 3)
Air date: 1969-01-16
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.
The Years of the Locust (Episode 4)
Air date: 1969-01-23
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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 (Episode 5)
Air date: 1969-01-30
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.
The Last of the Polymaths (Episode 6)
Air date: 1969-02-06
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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 (Episode 7)
Air date: 1969-02-13
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.
Report on V.D. (Episode 8)
Air date: 1969-02-20
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.
Extra-Sensory Perception (Episode 9)
Air date: 1969-02-27
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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 (Episode 10)
Air date: 1969-03-06
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.
Powers of Persuasion (Episode 11)
Air date: 1969-03-13
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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 (Episode 12)
Air date: 1969-03-20
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.
The Unborn Patient (Episode 13)
Air date: 1969-03-27
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.
The Physicist in the Kitchen (Episode 14)
Air date: 1969-04-03
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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 (Episode 15)
Air date: 1969-04-10
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.
Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow (Episode 16)
Air date: 1969-04-24
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.
Shark (Episode 17)
Air date: 1969-05-01
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.
Technology and Self-Determination (Episode 18)
Air date: 1969-05-15
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.
After Apollo (Episode 19)
Air date: 1969-05-22
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.
Discovery (Episode 20)
Air date: 1969-05-29
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.
Machines and People (Episode 21)
Air date: 1969-06-05
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
Science on Safari (Episode 22)
Air date: 1969-09-15
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
A True Madness (Episode 23)
Air date: 1969-09-22
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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 (Episode 24)
Air date: 1969-09-29
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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 (Episode 25)
Air date: 1969-10-06
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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 (Episode 26)
Air date: 1969-10-13
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.
Master of the Microscope (Episode 27)
Air date: 1969-10-20
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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. (Episode 28)
Air date: 1969-10-27
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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 (Episode 29)
Air date: 1969-11-03
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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 (Episode 30)
Air date: 1969-11-10
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.
There's a Rhino in My Sugar (Episode 31)
Air date: 1969-11-17
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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? (Episode 32)
Air date: 1969-11-24
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.
Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs (Episode 33)
Air date: 1969-12-01
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.
How Much Do You Drink? (Episode 34)
Air date: 1969-12-08
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.
A Game of War (Episode 35)
Air date: 1969-12-15
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.
Bread (Episode 36)
Air date: 1969-12-22
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.
For the Safety of Mankind (Episode 37)
Air date: 1969-12-29
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.
