Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of the most important research and development centers where more than 4000 scientists work with a budget of one hundred million pounds every year. Horizon investigates the possibility of setting up a similar research station in Britain.
Aired: Jan 6, 1965At a time when the use of teaching machines is fast expanding, Horizon looks ...
2. Thrombosis- an Affair of the Heart
Aired: Jan 20, 1965Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of ...
Aired: Feb 3, 1965Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the univ...
4. Albert Szent/Toil, Sweat and Tears
Aired: Feb 17, 1965Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores ...
5. Big Dishes/The Living Stream
Aired: Mar 3, 1965Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, H...
6. Boys on Bubbles/Problems and Puzzles
Aired: Mar 17, 1965Is there a fifth force in the Universe, or must we revise our ideas about tim...
7. Windows on the Soul/Elixir of Youth
Aired: Mar 31, 1965Prof. Andrade presents a tribute to Robert Hooke: architect, astronomer, geol...
8. The Troubled Mind/Triple A-S
Aired: Apr 14, 1965Every day, on average, another 431 British women start taking the contracepti...
9. A Man of Two Visions/The Scientist Applied
Aired: May 12, 1965Nine 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
Aired: May 26, 1965When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water...
Aired: Jun 9, 1965Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets ...
12. The Beginning of Life/Science Friction
Aired: Jun 23, 1965Dr. 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
Aired: Jul 14, 1965Looks at the problems a modern day inventor has as he struggles against multi...
14. Chance and Decay/Meteorite Mystery
Aired: Jul 28, 1965Dr. Seymour Z. Lewin and his method of preserving limestone - and a mysteriou...
15. The Towers of Ilium/The Exploding City
Aired: Aug 11, 1965The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Wern...
Aired: Aug 25, 1965Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who h...
17. Destination Mars/Editors in Conference
Aired: Sep 8, 1965Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific book...
18. Man Meets Duck/The Picture Machines
Aired: Sep 22, 1965On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of...
19. Where Must the Money Go?/ Phantoms Incorporated
Aired: Oct 10, 1965What sort of person can invent a 3-D microscope, a new way of photographing t...
20. Genes in Action/Scientists and War
Aired: Oct 24, 1965Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.
Aired: Nov 7, 1965They're called aloof, self-absorbed. They don't meet your eyes, won't be cudd...
22. H.G. Wells/'Nature' Tomorrow
Aired: Nov 21, 1965Horizon profiles the scientist, polymath, and Nobel prize winner Prof. Albert...
23. The Big Dishes / The Living Stream
Aired: Dec 5, 1965A look at some of the huge new radio telescopes which have recently started w...
24. Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles
Aired: Sep 25, 1966Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lec...
Seasons: 59
Current Status: Returning Series
Network: BBC Two
Production Country: United Kingdom
Genres:Documentary
