Horizon - 1969
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1969
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two37 Episodes
Inside Every Fat Man
Season 6 - Episode 1
Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.
If Only They Could Speak
Season 6 - Episode 2
A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.
The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye
Season 6 - Episode 3
Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.
The Years of the Locust
Season 6 - Episode 4
In this episode, Horizon reports on how in the last 2 years, the desert locust has been breeding in Southern Arabia by the Red Sea.
The Gifted Child
Season 6 - Episode 5
Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.
The Last of the Polymaths
Season 6 - Episode 6
This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.
Music and the Mind
Season 6 - Episode 7
Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.
Report on V.D.
Season 6 - Episode 8
This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.
Extra-Sensory Perception
Season 6 - Episode 9
In scientific circles extra-sensory perception is a subject which has never failed to arouse controversy and skepticism. Cecil King, having ...
The Drift from Science
Season 6 - Episode 10
This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.
Powers of Persuasion
Season 6 - Episode 11
This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.
The View from Space
Season 6 - Episode 12
Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.
The Unborn Patient
Season 6 - Episode 13
Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.
The Physicist in the Kitchen
Season 6 - Episode 14
Nicholas Kurti, Professor of Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, specializes in the field of low temperature science. He is acknowl...
King Solomon's Garden
Season 6 - Episode 15
This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.
Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow
Season 6 - Episode 16
Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.
Shark
Season 6 - Episode 17
In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.
Technology and Self-Determination
Season 6 - Episode 18
Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.
After Apollo
Season 6 - Episode 19
The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.
Discovery
Season 6 - Episode 20
Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.
Machines and People
Season 6 - Episode 21
The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
Science on Safari
Season 6 - Episode 22
The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
A True Madness
Season 6 - Episode 23
Schizophrenia is an unsolved mystery of modern medicine. Horizon looks at some of the possible explanations and their relevance not only to ...
Problems of Pain
Season 6 - Episode 24
In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.
Four Fast Legs and a Nose
Season 6 - Episode 25
Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.
Father of the Man
Season 6 - Episode 26
Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.
Master of the Microscope
Season 6 - Episode 27
In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.
C.E.R.N.
Season 6 - Episode 28
Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.
Snap, Crackle and Bang
Season 6 - Episode 29
The props for this programme are pistols, muskets and, above all, explosives. For 30 years now these are what Colonel Brian Shaw, marksman a...
Cancer Now
Season 6 - Episode 30
A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.
There's a Rhino in My Sugar
Season 6 - Episode 31
For some time now rhinos have been disturbing the workers in the Tanzanian sugar plantation and ripping open the plastic water pipes to get ...
Fit to Live?
Season 6 - Episode 32
Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.
Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs
Season 6 - Episode 33
Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.
How Much Do You Drink?
Season 6 - Episode 34
Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.
A Game of War
Season 6 - Episode 35
Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.
Bread
Season 6 - Episode 36
Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.
For the Safety of Mankind
Season 6 - Episode 37
Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.