Horizon - 1988
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1988
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two25 Episodes
The Transpanted Brain
Season 25 - Episode 1
This episode of Horizon looks at a new approach that holds hope for the treatment of Parkinson's Disease.
Death of a Star
Season 25 - Episode 2
Horizon documents the first sighting of a star in supernova at its initial stages. The study of the spacial event provides fascinating insig...
Playing With Madness
Season 25 - Episode 3
In the report by Horizon, they looks at manic depression and how is now known that it has a strong genetic component.
The Canal in the Jungle
Season 25 - Episode 4
This episode of the Horizon explores the Panama Canal, now a billion dollar commercial sea crossroad between continents. The future of the c...
Death of the Working Classes
Season 25 - Episode 5
Horizon investigates how those who are born into a working class family are at greater risk of dying early than if born a child of the profe...
The Greenhouse Effect
Season 25 - Episode 6
This documentary report by Horizon examines the devastating effects of the Greenhouse Effect (earth's temperature rising) and how man is cau...
Struggling for Control
Season 25 - Episode 7
This is a Horizon report on Britain's air traffic control capabilities and the use of outdated and unreliable equipment.
Thinking
Season 25 - Episode 8
Explores the limits of digital computers and artificial intelligence. Includes the views of John Searle, a philosopher at the University of ...
Patients on Trial
Season 25 - Episode 9
Horizon looks at the experimental treatment of four cancer patients in the USA who have volunteered to try the LAK/Interleuken 2 treatment.
Purple Warrior - Rules of Engagement
Season 25 - Episode 10
This is part one of a two-part series by Horizon reporting on a military exercise code named Purple Warrior which is designed to test lesson...
Purple Warrior - Limited War
Season 25 - Episode 11
This is part two of a two-part series by Horizon reporting on a military exercise code named Purple Warrior which is designed to test lesson...
The Heart of Another
Season 25 - Episode 12
Horizon looks at the progress of two heart disease patients at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital in Britain.
Easter Islands - The Secret
Season 25 - Episode 13
This is part one of a two-part Horizon series about the mystery of Easter Island, the stone statues, and the civilization that erected them.
Easter Islands - The Story
Season 25 - Episode 14
This is part two of a two-part Horizon series about the mystery of Easter Island, the stone statues, and the civilization that erected them.
Doctors to Be - Trial by Interview
Season 25 - Episode 15
Horizon presents part one of a three-part series on the education of doctors in Britain. In this episode, we look at the ordeal of an interv...
Doctors to Be - The Knowledge
Season 25 - Episode 16
Horizon presents part two of a three-part series on the education of doctors in Britain. In this episode, we examine the first two years of ...
Doctors to Be - Welcome to the Real World
Season 25 - Episode 17
Horizon presents part three of a three-part series on the education of doctors in Britain. In this episode, a group of medical students are ...
Cancer at Bay
Season 25 - Episode 18
Horizon investigates if changes in lifestyle could reduce the risks of cancer.
Traces of Murder
Season 25 - Episode 19
In this documentary, Horizon explores how to solve murder cases with the help of new technology.
The Hope of Progress
Season 25 - Episode 20
Horizon interviews the scientist and Nobel prize winner, Peter Medawar.
A Newsday Revolution
Season 25 - Episode 21
This report by Horizon covers how the electronic revolution in television news affects the way it is gathered, edited, and presented.
A Good Test?
Season 25 - Episode 22
Horizon investigates the use of psychological techniques in job recruitment and career development.
Superconductor - The Race for the Prize
Season 25 - Episode 23
This Horizon episode presents the breakthroughs in superconductivity research in several countries.
Believe Me
Season 25 - Episode 24
Horizon brings you a report on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis which is a neurological disease that has been puzzling doctors for more than 30 yea...
The Quest for Tannu Tuva
Season 25 - Episode 25
Richard Feynman was not only an iconoclastic and influential theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate but also an explorer at heart. Feynman...