Horizon - 1978
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1978
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
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Living Machines
Season 15 - Episode 1
Horizon investigates how biologists and engineers are pooling their ideas to understand how nature's machines work.
A Land for All Reasons
Season 15 - Episode 2
In this episode, Horizon examines the need for an objective approach to land management in Britain.
I Don't Want to Be a Burden
Season 15 - Episode 3
Horizon explores community and residential services available to the elderly in South Hampton, England.
Zero G
Season 15 - Episode 4
Horizon presents a report on zero gravity and the effects of weightlessness in spacecraft on humans.
The Message in the Rocks
Season 15 - Episode 5
Develops the theory that four and a half thousand million years ago the earth was formed thanks to the explosion of a huge star which provid...
The Eddystone Lights
Season 15 - Episode 6
Horizon reports on last three attempts to build a lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, near Plymouth.
Light of the 21st Century
Season 15 - Episode 7
Horizon presents a documentary on the development of the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation device, or more commonly kn...
The New Breadline
Season 15 - Episode 8
Horizon investigates the reasons for poverty in Britain today, now with seven million on at the poverty line.
Now the Chips Are Down
Season 15 - Episode 9
About the applications and implications for the future, particularly the effects on the labour market, of microprocessors.
Explosions in the Mind
Season 15 - Episode 10
In this episode, Horizon explores the after effects of a stroke when there is a sudden stoppage of blood to the human brain.
One Small Step
Season 15 - Episode 11
Horizon investigates the race to the moon between the USA and Russia and questions the motives behind the space race.
The Tsetse Trap
Season 15 - Episode 12
This episode of Horizon is about the tsetse fly which rules most of Africa and why much of the fertile land can't in Africa can't be used be...
A Whisper From Space
Season 15 - Episode 13
Horizon explores the history of evidence used to support the Big Bang Theory of the creation of the universe.
Prisoners of Hope
Season 15 - Episode 14
In this episode, Horizon explains some of the research in multiple sclerosis and how the lives of MS sufferers are affected.
On a Different Track
Season 15 - Episode 15
Horizon presents a brief history of the French railways and the policy behind their future direction.
Careering into Science
Season 15 - Episode 16
This documentary by Horizon is about six school children taking 'O' levels exams and inter science in Britain.
Cashing in on the Ocean
Season 15 - Episode 17
Horizon looks at the implications of exploiting Manganese nodules which are scattered over the seabed.
Bags of Life
Season 15 - Episode 18
Horizon investigates the composition and structure of the membrane that surround individual cells.
Innocent Slaughter?
Season 15 - Episode 19
In this documentary, Horizon examines all sides of the Canadian Harpseal hunt issue and asks if it is really necessary.
The Beersheva Experiment
Season 15 - Episode 20
Horizon explores an experimental medical school in Israel where students are trained primarily to care for people.
Divers Do It Deeper
Season 15 - Episode 21
Horizon explores the years of research that have enabled divers to go to greater and greater ocean depth.
The Big Sleep
Season 15 - Episode 22
In this story, Horizon takes a look at the world's leading hibernation research projects.
The Vital Spark
Season 15 - Episode 23
In this episode, Horizon examines the current developments in electrotherapy.
The Red Deer of Rhum
Season 15 - Episode 24
Horizon takes a look at the changing behaviour of individual animals in a herd of red deer on the Isle of Rhum.