Horizon

1. Special Senses

At a time when the use of teaching machines is fast expanding, Horizon looks ...

2. Thrombosis- an Affair of the Heart

Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of ...

3. 10,000 Tombs

Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the univ...

4. Albert Szent/Toil, Sweat and Tears

Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores ...

5. Big Dishes/The Living Stream

Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, H...

6. Boys on Bubbles/Problems and Puzzles

Is there a fifth force in the Universe, or must we revise our ideas about tim...

7. Windows on the Soul/Elixir of Youth

Prof. Andrade presents a tribute to Robert Hooke: architect, astronomer, geol...

8. The Troubled Mind/Triple A-S

Every day, on average, another 431 British women start taking the contracepti...

9. A Man of Two Visions/The Scientist Applied

Nine years after the passing of the Clean Air Act, where do we stand? Scienti...

10. The Dolphins That Joined the Navy/Theory of the Earth

When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water...

11. Route 128

Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets ...

12. The Beginning of Life/Science Friction

Dr. Jacob Bronowski, who a year ago took up the deputy directorship of the Sa...

13. So You Want to Be an Inventor?/The Severed Hand

Looks at the problems a modern day inventor has as he struggles against multi...

14. Chance and Decay/Meteorite Mystery

Dr. Seymour Z. Lewin and his method of preserving limestone - and a mysteriou...

15. The Towers of Ilium/The Exploding City

The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Wern...

16. Man in Space

Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who h...

17. Destination Mars/Editors in Conference

Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific book...

18. Man Meets Duck/The Picture Machines

On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of...

19. Where Must the Money Go?/ Phantoms Incorporated

What sort of person can invent a 3-D microscope, a new way of photographing t...

20. Genes in Action/Scientists and War

Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.

21. The Lonely Children

They're called aloof, self-absorbed. They don't meet your eyes, won't be cudd...

22. H.G. Wells/'Nature' Tomorrow

Horizon profiles the scientist, polymath, and Nobel prize winner Prof. Albert...

23. The Big Dishes / The Living Stream

A look at some of the huge new radio telescopes which have recently started w...

24. Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles

Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lec...