Horizon - 1980
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1980
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two25 Episodes
The Ghost Of The Amoco Cadiz
Season 17 - Episode 1
Documentary examination of the causes and conditions of the sinking of the Amoco Cadiz oil-tanker, in 1978.
You Are Old, Father William
Season 17 - Episode 2
Documentary examination on the process of ageing and some things that can be done about the problems of senility in old people.
Cleared for Take-Off
Season 17 - Episode 3
Documentary which looks at the danger points in flying an airliner on a routine flight from Gatwick to Los Angeles. Danger points are identi...
A Sporting Chance
Season 17 - Episode 4
Documentary on the ways in which athletes from different countries prepare for the Olympic Games and the artificial methods of improving per...
The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian
Season 17 - Episode 5
Documentary film on cancer research in the remote Chinese valley of Lin Xian where the population suffers more than 100 times the incidence ...
The Big If...
Season 17 - Episode 6
About Interferon, a drug made from human blood cells, thought to be capable of controlling viruses and cancer
Cash from Trash
Season 17 - Episode 7
Explores the potential in recycling rubbish in terms of energy and other resources
Encounter with Jupiter
Season 17 - Episode 8
Documentary on the space voyages of Nasa robot space craft Voyager 1 & 2 and their photographic records of the planet Jupiter.
Portrait of a Poison
Season 17 - Episode 9
Documentary report on the mounting evidence of the horrifying effects of the use of dioxin as a defoliant in Vietnam and as a herbicide in d...
Magnet Earth
Season 17 - Episode 10
Looks at what is known about the earth's magnetic field, how it affects the world's organisms and in particular at recent research in this f...
Goodbye Gutenberg
Season 17 - Episode 11
Documentary on the "information revolution" the advances made in the methods of electronic storage and display of information, and the effec...
Invasion of the Virions
Season 17 - Episode 12
Investigates various virus infections ranging from smallpox and rabies down to influenza and the common cold. The way they function and the ...
Beyond the Milky Way
Season 17 - Episode 13
Astronomers are seen at work in the UK, Arizona, Hawaii, New Mexico and Australia, describing their discoveries about the galaxies beyond th...
Little Boxes
Season 17 - Episode 14
Documentary about industrial design and the effect it has on the look of everyday life. Dieter Rams, Tom Woolfe, Etore Sottsass and Raymond ...
The Other Kenya
Season 17 - Episode 15
Looks at the contrasts in Kenya between the tourist image and the hardship caused by development. In particular, considers the lives of thre...
Moving Still
Season 17 - Episode 16
The new perspectives which can be gained on the natural world through time-lapse and high-speed photography. Includes footage of droplets of...
The Way Out
Season 17 - Episode 17
Documentary about London Transport and the decline in its services over the year s. It receives less subsidy than an comparable transport sy...
The Dead Sea Lives
Season 17 - Episode 18
Explains, within a historical context, how Israel and Jordan are trying to make use of the Dead Sea. Its mineral-rich waters are being harne...
Once in a Million Years
Season 17 - Episode 19
Documentary on nuclear energy and the efforts of scientists to contain and control the high risk factors involved with plutonium and uranium...
Smoker's Luck
Season 17 - Episode 20
Documentary about smoking and about the secondary effects of it. Britain leads the world in smoking deaths at 200 per day. The film looks at...
Behind the Horoscope
Season 17 - Episode 21
Documentary looking at the scientific facts about the growing cult of Astrology. In this report, Horizon looks at the way astrology has evol...
The Mondragon Experiment
Season 17 - Episode 22
Documentary on the twenty-five year old experimental industrial set-up in the Spanish city of Mondragon where most of the factories and labo...
The Spike
Season 17 - Episode 23
Documentary about epilepsy, showing epileptic fits as they occur and explaining what the onlooker should and should not do. Sufferers descri...
The Slatemakers
Season 17 - Episode 24
Documentary on the slatemaking industry of North Wales, now a dying craft, and the people involved with it.
Anatomy of a Volcano
Season 17 - Episode 25
Chronicles the efforts of geologists throughout the summer of 1980 to study the recently erupted volcano Mt. Saint Helens in Washington Stat...