Horizon

Season 3 Episode 11: How Best to Make a Man/Scientist

59 SeasonsMay 22, 1966TV-PG1h8.6

Horizon looks at the possibilities of landing a man on the planet Mars. The Editors of two leading scientific magazines, Dennis Flanagan of the Scientific American, and Nigel Calder of the New Scientist, discuss with Gordon Rattray Taylor the problems of popularizing science and placing it in a social context.

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Season 3 Episodes:

Episode 3 The Athlete

3. The Athlete

Aired: Jan 30, 1966

A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as...

Episode 5 Sex Change

5. Sex Change

Aired: Feb 27, 1966

North of Boston, on Route 128, a new industrial landscape based on science is...

Episode 9 Son of Cain

9. Son of Cain

Aired: Apr 24, 1966

The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the rese...

Episode 13 Migraine

13. Migraine

Aired: Jun 19, 1966

Horizon explores substitute 'phantoms' which are used in radiation studies, m...

Episode 14 How Safe Is Surgery?

14. How Safe Is Surgery?

Aired: Jul 3, 1966

Dr. John Gurdon talks about the action of the chromosomes puffing when they u...

Episode 15 Sleep and Dreams

15. Sleep and Dreams

Aired: Jul 17, 1966

Horizon investigates the research conducted in England and America on the pro...

Episode 17 Memory

17. Memory

Aired: Sep 25, 1966

Horizon reports on the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many paren...

Episode 22 Hypnosis

22. Hypnosis

Aired: Dec 5, 1966

This program shows the work of Ernst Chain, one of the discoverers of antibio...

Episode 23 The Wages of Science

23. The Wages of Science

Aired: Dec 19, 1966

The survival of Britain as an industrial power depends of science and on scie...


Info about Horizon

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary