1969
37 episodes · Jan 2, 1969
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- S6E1
Inside Every Fat Man
Jan 2, 196960mHorizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.
- S6E2
If Only They Could Speak
Jan 9, 196960mA report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.
- S6E3
The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye
Jan 16, 196960mHorizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.
- S6E4
The Years of the Locust
Jan 23, 196960mIn 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, 196960mHorizon 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, 196960mThis episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.
- S6E7
Music and the Mind
Feb 13, 196960mHorizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.
- S6E8
Report on V.D.
Feb 20, 196960mThis investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.
- S6E9
Extra-Sensory Perception
Feb 27, 196960mIn 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.
- S6E10
The Drift from Science
Mar 6, 196960mThis report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.
- S6E11
Powers of Persuasion
Mar 13, 196960mThis episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.
- S6E12
The View from Space
Mar 20, 196960mHorizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.
- S6E13
The Unborn Patient
Mar 27, 196960mHorizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.
- S6E14
The Physicist in the Kitchen
Apr 3, 196960mNicholas 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.
- S6E15
King Solomon's Garden
Apr 10, 196960mThis episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.
- S6E16
Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow
Apr 24, 196960mHorizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.
- S6E17
Shark
May 1, 196960mIn this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.
- S6E18
Technology and Self-Determination
May 15, 196960mSebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.
- S6E19
After Apollo
May 22, 196960mThe US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.
- S6E20
Discovery
May 29, 196960mHorizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.
- S6E21
Machines and People
Jun 5, 196960mThe Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
- S6E22
Science on Safari
Sep 15, 196960mThe Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
- S6E23
A True Madness
Sep 22, 196960mSchizophrenia 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.
- S6E24
Problems of Pain
Sep 29, 196960mIn this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.
- S6E25
Four Fast Legs and a Nose
Oct 6, 196960mHorizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.
- S6E26
Father of the Man
Oct 13, 196960mHorizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.
- S6E27
Master of the Microscope
Oct 20, 196960mIn this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.
- S6E28
C.E.R.N.
Oct 27, 196960mHorizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.
- S6E29
Snap, Crackle and Bang
Nov 3, 196960mThe 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.
- S6E30
Cancer Now
Nov 10, 196960mA report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.
- S6E31
There's a Rhino in My Sugar
Nov 17, 196960mFor 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.
- S6E32
Fit to Live?
Nov 24, 196960mHorizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.
- S6E33
Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs
Dec 1, 196960mHorizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.
- S6E34
How Much Do You Drink?
Dec 8, 196960mHorizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.
- S6E35
A Game of War
Dec 15, 196960mHorizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.
- S6E36
Bread
Dec 22, 196960mHorizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.
- S6E37
For the Safety of Mankind
Dec 29, 196960mHorizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.