Horizon - 1967
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1967
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two23 Episodes
Sons of Cain
Season 4 - Episode 1
Horizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?
When Is a Body Dead? / How to Win Friends and Influence People
Season 4 - Episode 2
Medical advances have made it possible for 'life' to be maintained in an unconscious patient who has irrevocable brain damage and who might ...
How Best to Make a Man / How Best to Make a Scientist
Season 4 - Episode 3
In this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. This school uses a competitio...
Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday
Season 4 - Episode 4
Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are recons...
Migraine
Season 4 - Episode 5
Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.
How Safe Is Surgery?
Season 4 - Episode 6
Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.
Sleep and Dreams
Season 4 - Episode 7
Joel, a healthy young American, is reduced to a restless neurotic state after being deprived of his dreams for three nights. Mr Bates, an ei...
The Shape of War to Come
Season 4 - Episode 8
Will the next major war be fought with biological and chemical weapons? What are the available weapons? What is the horror they can cause? I...
Memory
Season 4 - Episode 9
Horizon explores the part of the human brain devoted to memory.
Masters of the Desert
Season 4 - Episode 10
Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.
Cancer - The Search for the Virus
Season 4 - Episode 11
In this the first of two programmes dealing with cancer, Horizon looks at the intensive search now going on to discover whether a virus is o...
Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble
Season 4 - Episode 12
Why is there doubt in so many people's minds about the relationship between lung cancer and smoking? Tonight's programme examines the latest...
Science and the Supernatural
Season 4 - Episode 13
Horizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).
Hypnosis
Season 4 - Episode 14
Horizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.
The War of the Boffins
Season 4 - Episode 15
During the human struggles between the British and German air forces ... another conflict was going on step by step, month by month. This wa...
Aspects of Alcohol
Season 4 - Episode 17
Horizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbon 14 used for determining how old an obj...
Lords of the Sea
Season 4 - Episode 18
Horizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.
Will Art Last?
Season 4 - Episode 19
In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial proces...
Air Safety: The Unknown Factor
Season 4 - Episode 20
Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.
The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary
Season 4 - Episode 21
Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.
Koestler on Creativity
Season 4 - Episode 22
Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.
The World of Ted Serios
Season 4 - Episode 23
Horizon looks into the life of Ted Serios who claims to have psychic powers and to be able to project images onto film using only his though...
Professor in Toyland
Season 4 - Episode 24
Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.