Horizon - 1975
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1975
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two26 Episodes
The Killer Dust
Season 12 - Episode 1
This investigative report by Horizon covers an investigation into the deaths of people who inhaled asbestos dust at Acre Mill, Yorkshire, En...
A Time to Be Born
Season 12 - Episode 2
Investigates the growing tendency in hospitals to induce childbirth by injecting hormones into mothers. The practice has become increasingly...
The Unsafe Sea
Season 12 - Episode 3
This episode of Horizon examines the problems of ship safety in the English Channel.
The Change of Life
Season 12 - Episode 4
Horizon investigates the symptoms of menopause and the various degrees in which it occurs.
Project Fido
Season 12 - Episode 5
This episode of Horizon shows the peril to man of the ever increasing dog population in the western world.
The Planets
Season 12 - Episode 6
By the end of 1974, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter had all been visited by spacecraft. For the first time scientists saw in sharp detail t...
The Long, Long Walkabout
Season 12 - Episode 7
This report by Horizon covers an investigation by a group of Australian scientists that looks into the origins and history of the Australian...
The Overworked Miracle
Season 12 - Episode 8
This report by Horizon describes the resistance to antibiotics, fast growing in all countries, and the dangers it could mean for the future.
Not the Cheapest, But the Best
Season 12 - Episode 9
Horizon investigates the life and work of the great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
A Spoonful of Roughage
Season 12 - Episode 10
Horizon explores the effect of fibre in diet on the diseases of western world.
Brain Poison
Season 12 - Episode 11
Horizon presents an investigation into the effects on health of lead in the urban atmosphere.
The Bulldog's Last Bark?
Season 12 - Episode 12
This is a Horizon report on the building of the British military deterrent from the first decision to make it in 1941 until the present stat...
Benjamin
Season 12 - Episode 13
This episode of Horizon follows the progress of Benjamin Pile, born on 22 November, 1974, at Oxford in Britain.
The McMaster Experiment
Season 12 - Episode 14
This report by Horizon covers an experiment at McMaster University Medical School, in Ontario, Canada.
The Glazed Outlook
Season 12 - Episode 15
Horizon investigates the attempts by the University of Newcastle in England to define and create an ideal living and working environment.
The Three Chord Trick
Season 12 - Episode 16
Horizon explores the psychology of music, as it explains why music has such a powerful emotive effect in every society.
The Cleanest Place in the World
Season 12 - Episode 17
This report by Horizon brings you scientists that are using Antarctica as a giant natural lab to study who has polluted Earth most; man or n...
Strange Sleep
Season 12 - Episode 18
Horizon investigates the discovery of gaseous anaesthetic from 1840 until the early years of 20th century.
The Greatest Advance Since the Wheel?
Season 12 - Episode 19
Horizon reports on the history of superconductivity, from discovery, to the present.
How Do You Read?
Season 12 - Episode 20
In this documentary, Horizon reports on the reading process; how it works for the fluent, and how it should be taught.
The Sickly Sea
Season 12 - Episode 21
This episode of Horizon describes the various aspects of the pollution problem of the Mediterranean Sea.
Happy Catastrophe
Season 12 - Episode 22
In this Horizon episode, Rene Thom's mathematical discovery of the catastrophe theory is investigated.
To Die, to Live - The Survivors of Hiroshima
Season 12 - Episode 23
This documentary by Horizon commemorates the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
Cannabis
Season 12 - Episode 24
Horizon takes a look at the history of cannabis and the research on the effects of smoking marijuana.
Meditation and the Mind
Season 12 - Episode 25
This is a report by Horizon on Transcendental Meditation, or TM, brought to the West by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
The Trobriand Experiment
Season 12 - Episode 26
This documentary by Horizon is about the Trobriand islanders, whose culture is based on the Kula, a communication system of giving and recei...