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Horizon — Season 18

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Guest Stars

Paul Vaughan

Paul Vaughan

Narrator (voice)

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John Slack

Narrator (voice)

Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

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Episodes

E1
Episode 1 Spend and Prosper Jan 05, 1981

Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.

E2
Episode 2 A Whole New Medicine Jan 12, 1981

This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.

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Episode 3 The Qualyub Project Jan 19, 1981

Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.

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Episode 4 No One Will Take Me Seriously Jan 26, 1981

Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.

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Episode 5 Living with Dying Feb 02, 1981

Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.

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Episode 6 A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb Feb 09, 1981

In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controver...

E7
Episode 7 Who Will Deliver Your Baby? Feb 16, 1981

Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.

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Episode 8 West of Bangalore Mar 02, 1981

A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.

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Episode 9 Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts Mar 09, 1981

Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.

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Episode 10 Hello Universe! Mar 16, 1981

Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.

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Episode 11 Voices from Silent Hands Mar 23, 1981

Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.

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Episode 12 Did Darwin Get It Wrong? Mar 30, 1981

In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes f...

E13
Episode 13 East of Bombay Apr 06, 1981

This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are tr...

E14
Episode 14 Resolution on Saturn - The Rings Apr 11, 1981

Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the p...

E15
Episode 15 Resolution on Saturn - The Moons Apr 13, 1981

Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it ha...

E16
Episode 16 Heads I Win, Tails You Lose Sep 28, 1981

In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power sta...

E17
Episode 17 The Hunt for the Legion Killer Oct 05, 1981

Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.

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Episode 18 Breaking in Children Oct 12, 1981

In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.

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Episode 19 The Grid Oct 19, 1981

Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while inve...

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Episode 20 Butterflies or Barley? Oct 26, 1981

Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.

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Episode 21 Science for the People Nov 02, 1981

Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, ...

E22
Episode 22 The Race to Ruin Nov 09, 1981

This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the spa...

E23
Episode 23 Death of the Dinosaurs Nov 16, 1981

Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.

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Episode 24 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out Nov 23, 1981

Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebui...

E25
Episode 25 The Cornucopia Nov 30, 1981

Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position whic...

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Episode 26 A Race Against Time Dec 07, 1981

Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new ...

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Episode 27 Painting by Numbers Dec 21, 1981

Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in indus...

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