Horizon
This long-running science series explores big questions and surprising discoveries, unpacking mysteries across topics from astronomy to psychology and beyond. Guided by expert voices, it aims to make complex ideas clear while taking viewers into unfamiliar worlds and fresh ways of thinking.
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Season 22
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E1
Colourful Notions
Documentary about colour perception based on the theories of Dr. Edwin Land, which oppose the long-held three-receptor theory of colour vision
Jan 7, 1985 -
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E2
A World of Their Own
Horizon takes a look at consultant psychiatrists.
Jan 14, 1985 -
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E3
Decoding Danebury
Horizon looks at the way modern archaeologists extract information from a site dig.
Jan 21, 1985 -
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E4
A Mission to Heal
This Horizon episode is about a hospital in the African country of Kenya where the medical staff tells of a new approach to health care among the Pokot tribe.
Jan 28, 1985 -
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E5
Mystery of the Left Hand
In this episode, Horizon explores the characteristics of left-handed people.
Feb 4, 1985 -
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E6
The Theatre of War
Horizon examines new military technology which will come to dominate the battlefields of the future.
Feb 11, 1985 -
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E7
The Careful Predator
This episode of Horizon is about the controversial policy in African nation of Zimbabwe of encouraging villagers to allow wild animals back onto their land.
Feb 25, 1985 -
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E8
What Einstein Never Knew
This documentary by Horizon attempts to explain the advances in physics in the search for the ultimate equation that explains the meaning of life, the universe, and everything else in existence.
Mar 4, 1985 -
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E9
Eurekaaargh!
Horizon brings you a report by Robert Symes who offers ten golden guidelines on how to be a successful inventor.
Mar 11, 1985 -
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E10
Careering On
This is a Horizon follow-up report on the careers of seven British teenagers studying Science 'O' levels back in 1978.
Mar 18, 1985 -
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E11
How to Film the Impossible
This episode of Horizon looks at how the world's best special effects technicians create some of Hollywood's most spectacular film scenes.
Mar 25, 1985 -
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E12
The Food Allergy War
Horizon investigates how food allergy has developed from the 1950's to the present.
Apr 1, 1985 -
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E13
The Goddess of the Earth
Horizon examines a hypothesis that life itself manipulates the planet to enhance it's own survival.
Apr 15, 1985 -
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E14
IRAS - The Supercooled Eye
This Horizon documentary examines the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) which has detected evidence of planetary systems around distant stars.
Apr 22, 1985 -
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E15
A Prize Discovery
Horizon reports on the current medical treatment of Malaria and Leukemia.
Apr 29, 1985 -
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E16
The Wrong Stuff
Eighty per cent of all crashes are caused by 'human error'. Finding out what that means in terms of human behaviour has been called the last great frontier in aviation safety.
May 13, 1985