Horizon - 1990
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1990
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two20 Episodes
Oil Spill
Season 27 - Episode 1
After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, Horizon looks at tanker design and the technology used for dealing with major oil slicks.
Medicine 2000
Season 27 - Episode 2
Horizon reports on medical developments in Britain which could mean by the year 2000, health care will be very different.
Food Irradiation: Would You Buy It?
Season 27 - Episode 3
Horizon examines the history of research into irradiated food.
From Earth to Miranda
Season 27 - Episode 4
In this Horizon documentary, we look at how NASA launched the Voyager space probes to explore the planets of the outer solar system.
Encounter With Neptune
Season 27 - Episode 5
This report by Horizon presents the Voyager space probe close up encounter with the planet Neptune.
Guess What's Coming to Dinner?
Season 27 - Episode 6
Horizon looks at the potential implications of genetically engineering plants.
The First 14 Days
Season 27 - Episode 7
Horizon brings you a documentary on embryology - the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms ...
The 10,000 Year Test
Season 27 - Episode 8
Horizon reports on how America has chosen to bury all of its most lethal radioactive waste under Yucca mountain in the state of Nevada.
Hurricane!
Season 27 - Episode 9
Horizon explores the inside of Hurricane Gilbert as it neared Jamaica on a direct course for the United States.
The Britannic Greenhouse
Season 27 - Episode 10
Horizon investigates how British scientists have begun to experiment to predict the effects of a changing climate from Greenhouse gases.
Cold Fusion
Season 27 - Episode 11
This story by Horizon investigates cold fusion
The Quake of '89 - The Final Warning?
Season 27 - Episode 12
Horizon presents the real story of seismic neglect and the failure of the San Francisco city government to protect its citizens.
The Sharpest Shot of the Universe
Season 27 - Episode 13
In this episode, Horizon looks at the Hubble space telescope, hailed as the greatest advance in astronomy since Galileo.
The Company of Ants and Bees
Season 27 - Episode 14
What can we learn from insects? Professor James Gould explains on Horizon that the human society may be able to predict their own future bas...
The Intelligent Island
Season 27 - Episode 15
This Horizon documentary looks at the radical transformations in the Singapore society as its technology extends into monitoring, logging, a...
Legacy of a Volcano
Season 27 - Episode 16
Horizon looks at the area around Mt. St. Helens 10 years after the volcanic eruption that devastated more 500 square kilometres of forest la...
Do Cows Make You Mad?
Season 27 - Episode 17
This episode of Horizon is about BSE transmitted in cattle feed and causing the fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome in humans.
The Child Mothers
Season 27 - Episode 18
Horizon investigates how teenage pregnancy is now posing massive health and social problems in many societies.
Signs of Life
Season 27 - Episode 19
Horizon examines the possibility of scientists, either intentionally or unintentionally, creating living forms which could enjoy an independ...
AIDS: A Quest for a Cure
Season 27 - Episode 20
Horizon investigates new breakthroughs in the scientific study, analysis, and reproduction of cells and their compounds, which may lead to t...