Horizon - 1982
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1982
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two22 Episodes
The Secret of the Snake
Season 19 - Episode 1
Profile of the snake, which presents a close-up look at how it kills and digests it's prey. Also shows how snake venom could be used in the ...
Finding a Voice
Season 19 - Episode 2
An examination of computer-based communication aids for the severely speech impaired. Follows the trip to America of Dick Boydell, a cerebra...
The Sea Beyond the Dunes
Season 19 - Episode 3
Documentary which looks at the wildlife of Pleasant Bay in New England marshland s of the Eastern USA, and their habitat.
Whatever Happened to the Energy Crisis?
Season 19 - Episode 4
Horizon explores what might happen when fossil fuel sources are depleted.
Notes of a Biology Watcher
Season 19 - Episode 5
Horizon documents how every one of us is owned and operated by other individuals; by hordes of hidden organisms.
The Cline Affair
Season 19 - Episode 6
Documentary on the first recorded instance of genetic engineering being carried out on a human, when in 1980, Dr. Martin Cline from Los Ange...
The Million Murdering Death
Season 19 - Episode 7
Documentary which looks at the way in which disease in the world fights back against modern scientific methods of controlling it, looking at...
Shots in the Dark
Season 19 - Episode 8
An examination of the use of Depo-Provera in the Third World. The contraceptive is injected and prevents pregnancy for three months, but it ...
The Victims
Season 19 - Episode 9
Documentary which looks at the psychological effects of kidnapping and imprisonment on the victims,based on the psychological characteristic...
The Future - Made in Japan?
Season 19 - Episode 10
Examines the prospects for Japanese economic supremacy in the 1990s and asks whether Japan will be able to compete in the development of new...
The Private Face of Medicine
Season 19 - Episode 11
Documentary which looks at the boom in private medicine in GB and at the effects of this on the National Health Service in the country.
The Fatal Bargain
Season 19 - Episode 12
Documentary which looks at the outbreak of a new disease in Spain in 1981 which has affected 17,000 people, killing 300, and the confusion w...
The Miracle of Life
Season 19 - Episode 13
Documentary which shows the human reproductive cycle from conception to birth, through the use of microscopic cameras within the human body.
The Case of the UFOs
Season 19 - Episode 14
Documentary which looks at the phenomenon of the Unidentified Flying Object and the possible explanations behind their sighting and observat...
A Killing Rain
Season 19 - Episode 15
Documentary about acid rain. The effects of various forms of pollution caused by processes of everyday life, including the contamination of ...
Intimate Relations
Season 19 - Episode 16
A look at current research into the causes and effects of divorce in the Western world.
The Scientist and the Baby
Season 19 - Episode 17
Documentary which looks at the great advances in the performance of ante-natal operations on the human foetus and the implications of these ...
Brave New Babies?
Season 19 - Episode 18
Oxford moral philosopher Jonathan Glover introduces some of the new developments in genetic engineering, looks at the future possibilities o...
The Professor of Surgery
Season 19 - Episode 19
An informal portrait of Prof. Ian McColl at work in Guy's Hospital, London, and in Kent. He discusses what makes a good surgeon; how he teac...
The Chopper
Season 19 - Episode 20
Traces the evolution of the helicopter, using rare archive footage of early pioneering flights. Also examines the latest research within the...
The State of the Planet
Season 19 - Episode 21
Documentary on the discussions at the second UN Environment Conference,in London in 1982,illustrating the points made in the debates on the ...
The Mysterious Mr. Tesla
Season 19 - Episode 22
Documentary about the little known Yugoslav-American scientist Nikola Tesla, whose experiments with electricity and wireless foreshadowed th...