Horizon - 1981
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1981
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two27 Episodes
Spend and Prosper
Season 18 - Episode 1
Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.
A Whole New Medicine
Season 18 - Episode 2
This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.
The Qualyub Project
Season 18 - Episode 3
Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.
No One Will Take Me Seriously
Season 18 - Episode 4
Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.
Living with Dying
Season 18 - Episode 5
Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.
A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb
Season 18 - Episode 6
In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.
Who Will Deliver Your Baby?
Season 18 - Episode 7
Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.
West of Bangalore
Season 18 - Episode 8
A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.
Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts
Season 18 - Episode 9
Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.
Hello Universe!
Season 18 - Episode 10
Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.
Voices from Silent Hands
Season 18 - Episode 11
Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.
Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
Season 18 - Episode 12
In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to a...
East of Bombay
Season 18 - Episode 13
This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the c...
Resolution on Saturn - The Rings
Season 18 - Episode 14
Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and S...
Resolution on Saturn - The Moons
Season 18 - Episode 15
Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the...
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Season 18 - Episode 16
In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for const...
The Hunt for the Legion Killer
Season 18 - Episode 17
Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.
Breaking in Children
Season 18 - Episode 18
In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.
The Grid
Season 18 - Episode 19
Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way th...
Butterflies or Barley?
Season 18 - Episode 20
Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.
Science for the People
Season 18 - Episode 21
Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the R...
The Race to Ruin
Season 18 - Episode 22
This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between...
Death of the Dinosaurs
Season 18 - Episode 23
Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Season 18 - Episode 24
Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of qua...
The Cornucopia
Season 18 - Episode 25
Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farm...
A Race Against Time
Season 18 - Episode 26
Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first ru...
Painting by Numbers
Season 18 - Episode 27
Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It ...