Horizon - 1985

Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 7 Jan 1985
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two16 Episodes

Colourful Notions
Season 22 - Episode 1
Documentary about colour perception based on the theories of Dr. Edwin Land, which oppose the long-held three-receptor theory of colour visi...

A World of Their Own
Season 22 - Episode 2
Horizon takes a look at consultant psychiatrists.

Decoding Danebury
Season 22 - Episode 3
Horizon looks at the way modern archaeologists extract information from a site dig.

A Mission to Heal
Season 22 - Episode 4
This Horizon episode is about a hospital in the African country of Kenya where the medical staff tells of a new approach to health care amon...

Mystery of the Left Hand
Season 22 - Episode 5
In this episode, Horizon explores the characteristics of left-handed people.

The Theatre of War
Season 22 - Episode 6
Horizon examines new military technology which will come to dominate the battlefields of the future.

The Careful Predator
Season 22 - Episode 7
This episode of Horizon is about the controversial policy in African nation of Zimbabwe of encouraging villagers to allow wild animals back ...

What Einstein Never Knew
Season 22 - Episode 8
This documentary by Horizon attempts to explain the advances in physics in the search for the ultimate equation that explains the meaning of...

Eurekaaargh!
Season 22 - Episode 9
Horizon brings you a report by Robert Symes who offers ten golden guidelines on how to be a successful inventor.

Careering On
Season 22 - Episode 10
This is a Horizon follow-up report on the careers of seven British teenagers studying Science 'O' levels back in 1978.

How to Film the Impossible
Season 22 - Episode 11
This episode of Horizon looks at how the world's best special effects technicians create some of Hollywood's most spectacular film scenes.

The Food Allergy War
Season 22 - Episode 12
Horizon investigates how food allergy has developed from the 1950's to the present.

The Goddess of the Earth
Season 22 - Episode 13
Horizon examines a hypothesis that life itself manipulates the planet to enhance it's own survival.

IRAS - The Supercooled Eye
Season 22 - Episode 14
This Horizon documentary examines the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) which has detected evidence of planetary systems around distan...

A Prize Discovery
Season 22 - Episode 15
Horizon reports on the current medical treatment of Malaria and Leukemia.

The Wrong Stuff
Season 22 - Episode 16
Eighty per cent of all crashes are caused by 'human error'. Finding out what that means in terms of human behaviour has been called the last...