1967
23 episodes · Jan 17, 1967
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- S4E1
Sons of Cain
Jan 17, 196760mHorizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?
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When Is a Body Dead? / How to Win Friends and Influence People
Jan 31, 196760mMedical advances have made it possible for 'life' to be maintained in an unconscious patient who has irrevocable brain damage and who might also be dependent on artificial aids to circulation and respiration. Is it now meaningless to define 'death' as the cessation of a heart beat? Why do so many people have difficulty In communicating, or in simply getting-on with other people? Psychologists have now begun to analyse aspects of social behaviour in a way which they believe will lead to more pleasant and more effective human relationships.
- S4E3
How Best to Make a Man / How Best to Make a Scientist
Feb 14, 196760mIn this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. This school uses a competition held for Russian school children to qualify new students.
- S4E4
Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday
Feb 28, 196760mHorizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.
- S4E5
Migraine
Mar 14, 196760mHorizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.
- S4E6
How Safe Is Surgery?
Mar 28, 196760mHorizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.
- S4E7
Sleep and Dreams
Apr 11, 196760mJoel, a healthy young American, is reduced to a restless neurotic state after being deprived of his dreams for three nights. Mr Bates, an eighty-four-year-old ex-milk man, has never dreamed in his life, or so he says until he is woken by scientists in the middle of a dream trip to New York.
- S4E8
The Shape of War to Come
Apr 25, 196760mWill the next major war be fought with biological and chemical weapons? What are the available weapons? What is the horror they can cause? Is there any moral justification for their use?
- S4E10
Masters of the Desert
May 23, 196760mHorizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.
- S4E11
Cancer - The Search for the Virus
Jun 6, 196760mIn this the first of two programmes dealing with cancer, Horizon looks at the intensive search now going on to discover whether a virus is one of the causes of cancer in humans and at the implications of this search in the treatment for such killer diseases as leukemia.
- S4E12
Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble
Jun 20, 196760mWhy is there doubt in so many people's minds about the relationship between lung cancer and smoking? Tonight's programme examines the latest scientific evidence in detail.
- S4E13
Science and the Supernatural
Jul 4, 196760mHorizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).
- S4E14
Hypnosis
Jul 18, 196760mHorizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.
- S4E15
The War of the Boffins
Sep 12, 196760mDuring the human struggles between the British and German air forces ... another conflict was going on step by step, month by month. This was a secret war whose battles were lost or won unknown to the public: and only with difficulty is it comprehended even now by those outside the smalt high scientific circles concerned.
- S4E17
Aspects of Alcohol
Sep 26, 196760mHorizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbon 14 used for determining how old an object is.
- S4E18
Lords of the Sea
Oct 10, 196760mHorizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.
- S4E19
Will Art Last?
Oct 24, 196760mIn this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.
- S4E20
Air Safety: The Unknown Factor
Nov 17, 196760mHorizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.
- S4E21
The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary
Nov 21, 196760mHorizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.
- S4E22
Koestler on Creativity
Dec 5, 196760mArthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.
- S4E23
The World of Ted Serios
Dec 12, 196760mHorizon looks into the life of Ted Serios who claims to have psychic powers and to be able to project images onto film using only his thoughts.
- S4E24
Professor in Toyland
Dec 24, 196760mProf. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.