Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs. The American equivalent of the British Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, met in Berkeley, California between Christmas and New Year.
1. M.I.T.'s ABC/The Disturbed Child
Aired: Jan 2, 1966Horizon follows experiments on the eyes being undertaken at the Department of...
Aired: Jan 16, 1966Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patient...
Aired: Jan 30, 1966A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as...
4. From Peenemunde to the Moon
Aired: Feb 13, 1966Horizon looks at the research of dolphins being conducted at a United States ...
Aired: Feb 27, 1966North of Boston, on Route 128, a new industrial landscape based on science is...
6. The Structure of Life- Penicillin
Aired: Mar 13, 1966A remarkable Swedish film of the gradual development of the human embryo from...
7. The Wages of Life- the Brain Drain
Aired: Mar 27, 1966Horizon looks into inventors who struggle against exploding technology, the b...
Aired: Apr 10, 1966Europe's heritage of pictures, statues, and buildings is being destroyed at a...
Aired: Apr 24, 1966The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the rese...
Aired: May 8, 1966Horizon travels to the spacecraft center in Houston, Texas to study astronaut...
11. How Best to Make a Man/Scientist
Aired: May 22, 1966Horizon looks at the possibilities of landing a man on the planet Mars. The ...
12. Dynamo- the Life of Faraday
Aired: Jun 5, 1966Gordon Taylor meets with Konrad Lorenz, the inventor of ethology, and intervi...
Aired: Jun 19, 1966Horizon explores substitute 'phantoms' which are used in radiation studies, m...
Aired: Jul 3, 1966Dr. John Gurdon talks about the action of the chromosomes puffing when they u...
Aired: Jul 17, 1966Horizon investigates the research conducted in England and America on the pro...
Aired: Jul 31, 1966This episode of Horizon reports on the famous science fiction writer, H. G. W...
Aired: Sep 25, 1966Horizon reports on the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many paren...
Aired: Oct 10, 1966Horizon looks at the scientific research being carried out in the Antarctic u...
19. Cancer-The Search for a Virus
Aired: Oct 24, 1966Horizon investigates the stresses on athletes.
20. Cancer: The Smoker's Gamble
Aired: Nov 7, 1966Christopher Chataway presents a program on the development of the rocket, fir...
21. Science and the Supernatural
Aired: Nov 21, 1966Doctors and psychologists talk about the problems inherent in the determinati...
Aired: Dec 5, 1966This program shows the work of Ernst Chain, one of the discoverers of antibio...
Aired: Dec 19, 1966The survival of Britain as an industrial power depends of science and on scie...
Current Status: Returning Series
Network: BBC Two
Production Country: United Kingdom
Genres:Documentary
