Horizon - 1966
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1966
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two23 Episodes
Windows of the Soul / Elixir of Youth
Season 3 - Episode 1
Horizon follows experiments on the eyes being undertaken at the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. The purpose of the ex...
The Troubled Mind / Triple-A. S.
Season 3 - Episode 2
Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs. The American equi...
A Man of Two Visions / The Scientist Applied
Season 3 - Episode 3
A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as an accomplished artist under the name of Alcopley. For a coun...
The Dolphins that Joined The Navy / A Theory of The Earth
Season 3 - Episode 4
Horizon looks at the research of dolphins being conducted at a United States naval base in Port Magu, California. The research concentrates ...
Route 128
Season 3 - Episode 5
North of Boston, on Route 128, a new industrial landscape based on science is developing. Here men of high intellectual qualifications are d...
The Beginning of Life / Science Friction
Season 3 - Episode 6
A remarkable Swedish film of the gradual development of the human embryo from fertilisation until birth. One man's impression of what scien...
So you want to be an Inventor? / The Severed Hand
Season 3 - Episode 7
Horizon looks into inventors who struggle against exploding technology, the buying power of great industries and taxation problems to make t...
Chance and Decay / Meteorite Mystery
Season 3 - Episode 8
Europe's heritage of pictures, statues, and buildings is being destroyed at a frightening rate by atmospheric pollution, but an American sci...
Towers of Ilium / The Exploding City
Season 3 - Episode 9
The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the researches of Carl Blegen. By A.D. 2,000, more than half the world...
Man in Space
Season 3 - Episode 10
Horizon travels to the spacecraft center in Houston, Texas to study astronauts in space and how they react to being in space and the stresse...
Destination Mars / Editors in Conference"
Season 3 - Episode 11
Horizon looks at the possibilities of landing a man on the planet Mars. The Editors of two leading scientific magazines, Dennis Flanagan of...
Man meets Duck / The Picture Machines
Season 3 - Episode 12
Gordon Taylor meets with Konrad Lorenz, the inventor of ethology, and interviews him about his work on animal instinct and his theories abou...
Where must the Money Go? / Phantoms Incorporated
Season 3 - Episode 13
Horizon explores substitute 'phantoms' which are used in radiation studies, manned spaceflight experiments and accident research that gives ...
Genes in Action / Scientists and War
Season 3 - Episode 14
Dr. John Gurdon talks about the action of the chromosomes puffing when they undergo intense genetic activity. Sir Solly Zuckerman talks abo...
The Lonely Children
Season 3 - Episode 15
Horizon investigates the research conducted in England and America on the problems associated with autistic children.
Man of Science / 'Nature' Tomorrow
Season 3 - Episode 16
This episode of Horizon reports on the famous science fiction writer, H. G. Wells. An interview with John Maddox, the new editor of one of ...
M.I.T.'s ABC / The Disturbed Child
Season 3 - Episode 17
Horizon reports on the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many parents know that their child has a problem but do not have the nece...
Ten Years in the Antarctic
Season 3 - Episode 18
Horizon looks at the scientific research being carried out in the Antarctic under the guidance the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Resear...
The Athlete
Season 3 - Episode 19
Horizon investigates the stresses on athletes.
From Peenemunde to the Moon
Season 3 - Episode 20
Christopher Chataway presents a program on the development of the rocket, first as a weapon, and then for the American space program.
Sex-Change?
Season 3 - Episode 21
Doctors and psychologists talk about the problems inherent in the determination of sex.
The Structure of Life
Season 3 - Episode 22
This program shows the work of Ernst Chain, one of the discoverers of antibiotics, now a Professor of Biochemistry at the Imperial College i...
The Wages of Science
Season 3 - Episode 23
The survival of Britain as an industrial power depends of science and on scientists. But are our scientists paid enough to attract them into...