Episode 1
An Ingenious Man - Sir H. John Baker
1968-01-02 • 60 min
Horizon reports on Prof. Sir John Baker who is a distinguished British engineer, tracing his career beginning from his early work on airships.
TV season
1968-01-02
Episode 1
1968-01-02 • 60 min
Horizon reports on Prof. Sir John Baker who is a distinguished British engineer, tracing his career beginning from his early work on airships.
Episode 2
1968-01-30 • 60 min
This episode covers interviews with surgeons and research workers discussing the need for animal experimentation in medical work.
Episode 3
1968-02-13 • 60 min
In England addicts get their heroin, and often cocaine, on the National Health Service: our system has prevented the growth of a drug-based criminal world, but Americans say that our system only worked when we did not have a serious addiction problem. Now we do. Does our present system make it too easy for the casual drug experimenter to become a hard-core addict? Is there anything we can learn from the American situation?
Episode 4
1968-02-27 • 60 min
Horizon explores the problem of increasing traffic in Britain.
Episode 5
1968-03-12 • 60 min
In this episode, Horizon looks into the advances in medical science.
Episode 6
1968-03-26 • 60 min
This episode presents the view by G. M. Carstairs, social psychiatrist, about the pleasures and problems of life in Britain in 1968.
Episode 7
1968-04-09 • 60 min
Horizon looks into modern methods of crime investigation.
Episode 8
1968-05-07 • 60 min
Horizon follows reporter Paul Ferris as he examines the causes and motitives for murder.
Episode 9
1968-09-12 • 60 min
This is the story of the life and career of Winston Churchill's scientific advisor, Lord Cherwell, during World War II.
Episode 10
1968-09-19 • 60 min
Horizon explores "factory farming" techniques for chickens and other livestock.
Episode 11
1968-09-26 • 60 min
In this episode, Dr. Alex Comfort looks at the scientific evidence for old age and the problems caused by ageing.
Episode 12
1968-10-03 • 60 min
Horizon investigates how science is used to enhance weapons of war, tactics, and strategy.
Episode 13
1968-10-10 • 60 min
In 1917, Russia had fewer than twenty doctors for every million of her people. Today, the figure is over 2,000: almost twice as many as in this country. The organisational changes that were necessary to build a Health Service in the country with the largest share of the earth's surface were vast. The resulting system is very different from ours.
Episode 14
1968-10-17 • 60 min
In this episode, Horizon looks into controversial medicine practices in Nigeria.
Episode 15
1968-10-24 • 60 min
This episode by Horizon is about Irene Kassorlas, who's new treatment for autism has produced positive results with mute children.
Episode 16
1968-10-31 • 60 min
Horizon reports on speech and comprehension disorders in children, and how to educate them.
Episode 17
1968-11-07 • 60 min
Horizon explores how computers are changing our way of life.
Episode 18
1968-11-14 • 60 min
Horizon reports on the effects of the birth control pill on the body and how the pill can effect the changes in glucose metabolism.
Episode 19
1968-11-21 • 60 min
This is the fictional drama about the evidence for and against the charges that Dr. Alfred Noble misused his invention of dynamite.
Episode 20
1968-11-28 • 60 min
Horizon explores the possibility that our civilization as a whole can be viewed as a pattern based on the wheel.
Episode 21
1968-12-05 • 60 min
In this episode, Horizon investigates the study of science by african americans.
Episode 22
1968-12-12 • 60 min
In this episode, Horizon reports on the exploration and survey of the oceans of the world.
Episode 23
1968-12-19 • 60 min
Prof. N.W.G. MacIntosh investigates the origin of the Talgai Skull found in Australia in 1886.
Episode 24
1968-12-24 • 60 min
In this episode of Horizon, Michael Balfour invites us to share in the mystery and magic of the "Magic Lantern".