Season 39 Episodes:

Episode 1 Freak Wave

1. Freak Wave

Aired: Jan 10, 2002

On a winter night in 373 BC, the classical Greek city of Helike was destroyed...

Episode 2 Stone Age Columbus

2. Stone Age Columbus

Aired: Jan 17, 2002

It began with a ghastly tragedy. In 1985 the massive Colombian volcano Nevado...

Episode 3 Homeopathy: The Test

3. Homeopathy: The Test

Aired: Jan 24, 2002

There is a new epidemic sweeping the world. It's been silently growing over t...

Episode 7 Living Nightmare

7. Living Nightmare

Aired: Feb 21, 2002

In the mid 1800s, when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, one ...

Episode 8 Averting Armageddon

8. Averting Armageddon

Aired: Mar 7, 2002

The World Trade Center was built on revolutionary design principles. It turne...

Episode 9 Dirty Bomb

9. Dirty Bomb

Aired: Mar 14, 2002

This is the story of a book that could have changed the history of the World....

Episode 10 Sexual Chemistry

10. Sexual Chemistry

Aired: Mar 28, 2002

For years scientists have been trying to find the mysterious evolutionary mas...

Episode 13 Earthquake Storms

13. Earthquake Storms

Aired: May 23, 2002

Examines a theory that many earthquakes are related, and that they can 'trigg...

Episode 14 Life on Mars

14. Life on Mars

Aired: Nov 14, 2002

The world's oceans claim on average one ship a week, often in mysterious circ...

Episode 16 God on the Brain

16. God on the Brain

Aired: Nov 26, 2002

New research into the human brain and asks are we programmed to believe in God?

Episode 17 Flight 587

17. Flight 587

Aired: Dec 5, 2002

250 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the land and o...

Episode 18 SARS: The True Story

18. SARS: The True Story

Aired: Dec 19, 2002

In 1542, the Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana ventured along the R...

Info about Horizon

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Documentary