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1969

37 episodes · 1969

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    Inside Every Fat Man

    Jan 2, 196960 min

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

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    If Only They Could Speak

    Jan 9, 196960 min

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

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    The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye

    Jan 16, 196960 min

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

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    The Years of the Locust

    Jan 23, 196960 min

    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.

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    The Gifted Child

    Jan 30, 196960 min

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

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    The Last of the Polymaths

    Feb 6, 196960 min

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

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    Music and the Mind

    Feb 13, 196960 min

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

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    Report on V.D.

    Feb 20, 196960 min

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

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    Extra-Sensory Perception

    Feb 27, 196960 min

    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.

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    The Drift from Science

    Mar 6, 196960 min

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

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    Powers of Persuasion

    Mar 13, 196960 min

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

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    The View from Space

    Mar 20, 196960 min

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

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    The Unborn Patient

    Mar 27, 196960 min

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

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    The Physicist in the Kitchen

    Apr 3, 196960 min

    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.

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    King Solomon's Garden

    Apr 10, 196960 min

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

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    Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow

    Apr 24, 196960 min

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

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    Shark

    May 1, 196960 min

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

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    Technology and Self-Determination

    May 15, 196960 min

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

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    After Apollo

    May 22, 196960 min

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

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    Discovery

    May 29, 196960 min

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

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    Machines and People

    Jun 5, 196960 min

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

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    Science on Safari

    Sep 15, 196960 min

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

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    A True Madness

    Sep 22, 196960 min

    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.

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    Problems of Pain

    Sep 29, 196960 min

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

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    Four Fast Legs and a Nose

    Oct 6, 196960 min

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

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    Father of the Man

    Oct 13, 196960 min

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

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    Master of the Microscope

    Oct 20, 196960 min

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

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    C.E.R.N.

    Oct 27, 196960 min

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

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    Snap, Crackle and Bang

    Nov 3, 196960 min

    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.

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    Cancer Now

    Nov 10, 196960 min

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

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    There's a Rhino in My Sugar

    Nov 17, 196960 min

    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.

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    Fit to Live?

    Nov 24, 196960 min

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

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    Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs

    Dec 1, 196960 min

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

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    How Much Do You Drink?

    Dec 8, 196960 min

    Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.

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    A Game of War

    Dec 15, 196960 min

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

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    Bread

    Dec 22, 196960 min

    Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.

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    For the Safety of Mankind

    Dec 29, 196960 min

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