Horizon - 1965
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1965
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
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Learning from Machines
Season 2 - Episode 1
At a time when the use of teaching machines is fast expanding, Horizon looks at the principles behind them and enquires into their success
The Technique of Change
Season 2 - Episode 2
Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of the most important research and development centers where more ...
Star Gazers
Season 2 - Episode 3
Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the universe and learn how stars are created.
Science and Art
Season 2 - Episode 4
Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores artists attitudes towards science.
The Great Computer Scandal / H-Bomb Detectors
Season 2 - Episode 5
Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, Horizon looks at the H-Bomb Detectors and how British scientists...
Forbidden Events / I am a Madman
Season 2 - Episode 6
Is there a fifth force in the Universe, or must we revise our ideas about time? Horizon visits the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory where a...
Restless Genius / Faster, Farther, Higher
Season 2 - Episode 7
Prof. Andrade presents a tribute to Robert Hooke: architect, astronomer, geologist, and meteorologist who discovered the cell. This episode ...
The Other Side of the Pill
Season 2 - Episode 8
Every day, on average, another 431 British women start taking the contraceptive pill. The manufacturers insist that it is the most carefully...
The Big Smoke / The Model Makers
Season 2 - Episode 9
Nine years after the passing of the Clean Air Act, where do we stand? Scientists are gradually finding out why dirty air Is so harmful to il...
The Long Slide / Men with Gills
Season 2 - Episode 10
When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water and begin to 'aquaplane.' Scientists are studying this fact wh...
Men and Sharks / Sir Henry Dale, OM, FRS
Season 2 - Episode 11
Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets with the eminent physiologist Sir Henry Dale as he celebrates h...
The Brain Gain / The Sudden Night / Learning to Speak
Season 2 - Episode 12
Dr. Jacob Bronowski, who a year ago took up the deputy directorship of the Salk Institute in California, discusses with Tom Rosenthal his ne...
Dr. Joseph Needham / Mariner IV
Season 2 - Episode 13
This episode of Horizon features Dr. Joseph Needham, an eminent scientist and humanist who is perhaps the greatest living authority on China...
Science Fiction : Science Fact? / Alone and Unarmed
Season 2 - Episode 14
Is all science fiction merely fantasy - or can it give valuable clues to the future? A discussion between Desmond Morris and the ethologist...
Certain of Uncertainty / State of Nature
Season 2 - Episode 15
The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and George Thompson meet and discuss topic with J...
Time Stood Still / Weighty Matters
Season 2 - Episode 16
Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has won international recognition for his achievements in ultra-...
Fuel for the Future / Collector's Piece
Season 2 - Episode 17
Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific books which he was about to sell.
Let Newton Be
Season 2 - Episode 18
On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of his most ardent disciples, Prof. Julius Summer-Miller, comes f...
Special Senses / Toil, Sweat & Tears
Season 2 - Episode 19
What sort of person can invent a 3-D microscope, a new way of photographing the moon, publish fifty papers on perception, and spend three we...
An Affair of the Heart
Season 2 - Episode 20
Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.
10,000 Tombs
Season 2 - Episode 21
Horizon probes into the Etruscan tombs in Italy. Carlo Lerici, scientist and archaeologist, has brought past and future together. Using geo...
Albert Szent-Györgyi M.D., Ph.D., D.h.c.
Season 2 - Episode 22
Horizon profiles the scientist, polymath, and Nobel prize winner Prof. Albert Szent-Gyorgi.
The Big Dishes / The Living Stream
Season 2 - Episode 23
A look at some of the huge new radio telescopes which have recently started work in Britain, France, Russia, America, and elsewhere. Sir Ber...
Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles
Season 2 - Episode 24
Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lectures on bubbles and surface tension which drew crowds to the L...