Episode 1
Wildlife - The Last Great Battle
1971-01-04 • 60 min
In this episode, Horizon looks a the efforts of zoos to save animal species from extinction by breeding enough to ensure their survival in captivity
TV season
1971-01-04
Episode 1
1971-01-04 • 60 min
In this episode, Horizon looks a the efforts of zoos to save animal species from extinction by breeding enough to ensure their survival in captivity
Episode 2
1971-01-18 • 60 min
In this episode, Horizon looks at the renowned British hospital for children, Great Ormond Street, and the Institute of Child Health.
Episode 3
1971-01-25 • 60 min
Horizon explores the island of New Guinea and its cultural changes going on there.
Episode 4
1971-02-01 • 60 min
This episode of Horizon looks at the growing arsenal of nuclear weapons over the last 25 years and the effects it has on the arms race.
Episode 5
1971-02-15 • 60 min
The first of a two-programme investigation in which Horizon and Man Alive have combined forces. This episode investigates the facts about drug abuse and experimental work undertaken in this area.
Episode 6
1971-02-22 • 60 min
Kuru is a unique disease of the people of New Guinea. Horizon goes with Prof. E. J. Field to find out why.
Episode 7
1971-03-08 • 60 min
Horizon interviews ecologists that claim that man is irrevocably destroying its habitat.
Episode 8
1971-03-15 • 60 min
Horizon investigates medical student training at the St. Thomas hospital in London, England.
Episode 9
1971-03-22 • 60 min
Horizon explores the causes, and looks for way to prevent car accidents
Episode 10
1971-04-05 • 60 min
This report by Horizon looks at the long term ecological study of the forest at Wytham Wood, Oxon, in England.
Episode 11
1971-04-12 • 60 min
In 1971, Horizon reviews the life and work of Prof. Hans Eysnck, the most controversial psychologists of the time.
Episode 12
1971-04-26 • 60 min
This report by Horizon explores care for the aged, for both medical and welfare services in Britain.
Episode 13
1971-05-03 • 60 min
Horizon reports on the famous protagonist of "The Origin of Species," Thomas Henry Huxley.
Episode 14
1971-05-10 • 60 min
This episode of Horizon examines how cells organize to become complex organs, and bodies.
Episode 15
1971-05-17 • 60 min
At the moment, legal abortions in the UK are being performed at the rate of over 90,000 a year and it is considered that the number is likely to rise. But why are so many people not prepared to use contraceptives? Are the contraceptives themselves at fault or is it part of a deep-rooted attitude to sex? A drug is now being tested which makes it possible for a woman to procure her own abortion in the first few weeks of pregnancy.
Episode 16
1971-05-24 • 60 min
Horizon reports on food technology now experimenting with meat substitutes.
Episode 17
1971-05-31 • 60 min
Within 20 years vertical take-off airliners could be hovering over Hampstead and Dulwich before landing, one a minute, day and night, at a Thames-side V-port. Horizon looks at what could be one of the great environmental debates of the century to have, or not to have, aircraft flying in and out of city centres.
Episode 18
1971-06-07 • 60 min
Horizon investigates how to treat depressive illneses.
Episode 19
1971-06-14 • 60 min
This episode of Horizon reports on the development of the aircraft bomber throughout periods of war.
Episode 20
1971-06-21 • 60 min
Horizon explores the field of palaeontology, the study of dinosaurs.
Episode 21
1971-09-27 • 60 min
This episode of Horizon looks at Britain's civil defense program, and to see if it is adequate in the event of a nuclear war.
Episode 22
1971-10-04 • 60 min
Horizon investigates rheumatism, and looks at why this disease is under-researched.
Episode 23
1971-10-11 • 60 min
Can new born babies solve complex problems? Horizon works with psychologists to see how they measure this capacity.
Episode 24
1971-10-18 • 60 min
Do city planners in Liverpool have unrealistic expectations? Horizon looks into the development and planning process of Liverpool, England.
Episode 25
1971-10-25 • 60 min
This is a two part episode of Horizon. First, Horizon looks at the life of centenary Ernest Rutherford, followed by a report of the Cavendish Labratory in Cambridge, England.
Episode 26
1971-11-01 • 60 min
Horizon explores a primitive tribe of Yanomamo Indians living in southern Venezula.
Episode 27
1971-11-15 • 60 min
This episode of Horizon looks in the ancient cave paintings found in France.
Episode 28
1971-11-22 • 60 min
This episode of Horizon reports on how the Crab Nebula was discovered, and continuing observation of the space encounter.
Episode 29
1971-11-29 • 60 min
Horizon reports on the continuing problem of the city of Venice, Italy sinking into the sea.
Episode 30
1971-12-06 • 60 min
This report by Horizon is about Prof. Hean Piaget and her child center education theory.
Episode 31
1971-12-20 • 60 min
Horizon presents the history of the submarines, from pre-World War I to today's nuclear powered submarines.
Episode 32
1971-12-27 • 60 min
This episode of Horizon investigates strange new inventions.