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Horizon (1964) is a documentary web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Horizon online in HD.

Horizon — Storyline

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

Cast & Crew

Horizon — Series Details

Horizon — Episode Guide

1964

• E1: The World of Buckminster Fuller (1964-02-04) — Horizon follows the work of R. Buckminster Fuller and his research of the geodesic dome.
• E2: Pesticides and Posterity (1964-05-30) — Dr. Frank Darling and Dr. Eric Edson discuss different environmental priorities.
• E3: A Candle to Nature (1964-06-27) — A reconstruction of a Michael Faraday lecture last given in December 1860.
• E4: Strangeness Minus Three (1964-07-25) — Horizon explores the findings of physicists at Brookhaven, Long Island, New York. Who, after two years and thousands of photographs, have identified a predicted new particle which
• E5: The Air of Science (1964-08-22) — Horizon looks at the work of the National Institute for Medical Research.
• E6: The Knowledge Explosion (1964-09-21) — Prof. Arthur C. Clarke, Derek Price and Nigel Balchin discuss the past and future of science.
• E7: The Amateur Scientist (1964-10-19) — The work of amateur scientists.
• E8: Tots and Quods and Woodgeries (1964-11-16) — Horizon investigates the 'Tots and Quots' and the 'Woodgeries' two groups set up by scientists before the second world war to discuss the future of science and how it effects socie
• E9: Science, Toys and Magic (1964-12-14) — Horizon takes a look at science in the spirit of Christmas.

1965

• E1: Learning from Machines (1965-01-06) — At a time when the use of teaching machines is fast expanding, Horizon looks at the principles behind them and enquires into their success
• E2: The Technique of Change (1965-01-20) — 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
• E3: Star Gazers (1965-02-03) — Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the universe and learn how stars are created.
• E4: Science and Art (1965-02-17) — Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores artists attitudes towards science.
• E5: The Great Computer Scandal / H-Bomb Detectors (1965-03-03) — Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, Horizon looks at the H-Bomb Detectors and how British scientists have developed a nuclear explosion dete
• E6: Forbidden Events / I am a Madman (1965-03-17) — Is there a fifth force in the Universe, or must we revise our ideas about time? Horizon visits the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory where an experiment is running to settle this,
• E7: Restless Genius / Faster, Farther, Higher (1965-03-31) — Prof. Andrade presents a tribute to Robert Hooke: architect, astronomer, geologist, and meteorologist who discovered the cell. This episode also includes a report on a 36 year stud
• E8: The Other Side of the Pill (1965-04-14) — Every day, on average, another 431 British women start taking the contraceptive pill. The manufacturers insist that it is the most carefully tested drug on the market today. But so
• E9: The Big Smoke / The Model Makers (1965-05-12) — Nine years after the passing of the Clean Air Act, where do we stand? Scientists are gradually finding out why dirty air Is so harmful to ill persons with Dr. P. J. Lawther of Air
• E10: The Long Slide / Men with Gills (1965-05-26) — When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water and begin to 'aquaplane.' Scientists are studying this fact which creates a real hazard to aircraft pa
• E11: Men and Sharks / Sir Henry Dale, OM, FRS (1965-06-09) — Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets with the eminent physiologist Sir Henry Dale as he celebrates his 90th birthday and looks back on his c
• E12: The Brain Gain / The Sudden Night / Learning to Speak (1965-06-23) — Dr. Jacob Bronowski, who a year ago took up the deputy directorship of the Salk Institute in California, discusses with Tom Rosenthal his new activities and how he feels about work
• E13: Dr. Joseph Needham / Mariner IV (1965-07-14) — This episode of Horizon features Dr. Joseph Needham, an eminent scientist and humanist who is perhaps the greatest living authority on China.

  An account of the space probe Mariner

• E14: Science Fiction : Science Fact? / Alone and Unarmed (1965-07-28) — Is all science fiction merely fantasy – or can it give valuable clues to the future?

  A discussion between Desmond Morris and the ethologist George Schaller.

• E15: Certain of Uncertainty / State of Nature (1965-08-11) — The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and George Thompson meet and discuss topic with John Charap at the annual science confere
• E16: Time Stood Still / Weighty Matters (1965-08-25) — Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has won international recognition for his achievements in ultra-high-speed photography, talks about his
• E17: Fuel for the Future / Collector's Piece (1965-09-08) — Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific books which he was about to sell.
• E18: Let Newton Be (1965-09-22) — On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of his most ardent disciples, Prof. Julius Summer-Miller, comes from California to illustrate the excitem
• E19: Special Senses / Toil, Sweat & Tears (1965-10-10) — What sort of person can invent a 3-D microscope, a new way of photographing the moon, publish fifty papers on perception, and spend three weeks hunting for a minute sea creature to
• E20: An Affair of the Heart (1965-10-24) — Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.
• E21: 10,000 Tombs (1965-11-07) — Horizon probes into the Etruscan tombs in Italy.

  Carlo Lerici, scientist and archaeologist, has brought past and future together. Using geophysical methods intended for mineral su

• E22: Albert Szent-Györgyi M.D., Ph.D., D.h.c. (1965-11-21) — Horizon profiles the scientist, polymath, and Nobel prize winner Prof. Albert Szent-Gyorgi.
• E23: The Big Dishes / The Living Stream (1965-12-05) — A look at some of the huge new radio telescopes which have recently started work in Britain, France, Russia, America, and elsewhere. Sir Bernard Lovell, Professor Martin Ryle, and
• E24: Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles (1966-09-25) — Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lectures on bubbles and surface tension which drew crowds to the London Institution sixty-six years ago. T

1966

• E1: Windows of the Soul / Elixir of Youth (1966-01-02) — Horizon follows experiments on the eyes being undertaken at the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. The purpose of the experiments are to discover if our eyes ca
• E2: The Troubled Mind / Triple-A. S. (1966-01-16) — Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs.

  The American equivalent of the British Association, the A

• E3: A Man of Two Visions / The Scientist Applied (1966-01-30) — A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as an accomplished artist under the name of Alcopley.

  For a country striving to raise its productivity,

• E4: The Dolphins that Joined The Navy / A Theory of The Earth (1966-02-13) — Horizon looks at the research of dolphins being conducted at a United States naval base in Port Magu, California. The research concentrates on the dolphin's abilities of navigation
• E5: Route 128 (1966-02-27) — North of Boston, on Route 128, a new industrial landscape based on science is developing. Here men of high intellectual qualifications are developing way-out products, including a
• E6: The Beginning of Life / Science Friction (1966-03-13) — A remarkable Swedish film of the gradual development of the human embryo from fertilisation until birth.

  One man's impression of what science has done for the modern world: an ani

• E7: So you want to be an Inventor? / The Severed Hand (1966-03-27) — Horizon looks into inventors who struggle against exploding technology, the buying power of great industries and taxation problems to make their leaps into the unknown.

  An account

• E8: Chance and Decay / Meteorite Mystery (1966-04-10) — Europe's heritage of pictures, statues, and buildings is being destroyed at a frightening rate by atmospheric pollution, but an American scientist has just invented a method of pre
• E9: Towers of Ilium / The Exploding City (1966-04-24) — The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the researches of Carl Blegen.

  By A.D. 2,000, more than half the world's population may be living in cities. T

• E10: Man in Space (1966-05-08) — Horizon travels to the spacecraft center in Houston, Texas to study astronauts in space and how they react to being in space and the stresses of launching and re-entry.
• E11: Destination Mars / Editors in Conference" (1966-05-22) — 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 Cald

• E12: Man meets Duck / The Picture Machines (1966-06-05) — Gordon Taylor meets with Konrad Lorenz, the inventor of ethology, and interviews him about his work on animal instinct and his theories about human instinct.

  The world knows all a

• E13: Where must the Money Go? / Phantoms Incorporated (1966-06-19) — Horizon explores substitute 'phantoms' which are used in radiation studies, manned spaceflight experiments and accident research that gives valuable information on the limits of to
• E14: Genes in Action / Scientists and War (1966-07-03) — Dr. John Gurdon talks about the action of the chromosomes puffing when they undergo intense genetic activity.

  Sir Solly Zuckerman talks about his new book Scientists and War which

• E15: The Lonely Children (1966-07-17) — Horizon investigates the research conducted in England and America on the problems associated with autistic children.
• E16: Man of Science / 'Nature' Tomorrow (1966-07-31) — This episode of Horizon reports on the famous science fiction writer, H. G. Wells.

  An interview with John Maddox, the new editor of one of the world's most influential scientific

• E17: M.I.T.'s ABC / The Disturbed Child (1966-09-25) — Horizon reports on the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  Many parents know that their child has a problem but do not have the necessary insight to deal with it. A psychia

• E18: Ten Years in the Antarctic (1966-10-10) — Horizon looks at the scientific research being carried out in the Antarctic under the guidance the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) which was formed in 1856.
• E19: The Athlete (1966-10-24) — Horizon investigates the stresses on athletes.
• E20: From Peenemunde to the Moon (1966-11-07) — Christopher Chataway presents a program on the development of the rocket, first as a weapon, and then for the American space program.
• E21: Sex-Change? (1966-11-21) — Doctors and psychologists talk about the problems inherent in the determination of sex.
• E22: The Structure of Life (1966-12-05) — This program shows the work of Ernst Chain, one of the discoverers of antibiotics, now a Professor of Biochemistry at the Imperial College in London.
• E23: The Wages of Science (1966-12-19) — The survival of Britain as an industrial power depends of science and on scientists. But are our scientists paid enough to attract them into the right jobs?

1967

• E1: Sons of Cain (1967-01-17) — Horizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?
• E2: When Is a Body Dead? / How to Win Friends and Influence People (1967-01-31) — Medical advances have made it possible for 'life' to be maintained in an unconscious patient who has irrevocable brain damage and who might also be dependent on artificial aids to
• E3: How Best to Make a Man / How Best to Make a Scientist (1967-02-14) — In this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. This school uses a competition held for Russian school children to qu
• E4: Dynamo – The Life of Michael Faraday (1967-02-28) — Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.
• E5: Migraine (1967-03-14) — Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.
• E6: How Safe Is Surgery? (1967-03-28) — Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.
• E7: Sleep and Dreams (1967-04-11) — Joel, a healthy young American, is reduced to a restless neurotic state after being deprived of his dreams for three nights. Mr Bates, an eighty-four-year-old ex-milk man, has neve
• E8: The Shape of War to Come (1967-04-25) — Will the next major war be fought with biological and chemical weapons? What are the available weapons? What is the horror they can cause? Is there any moral justification for thei
• E9: Memory (1967-05-09) — Horizon explores the part of the human brain devoted to memory.
• E10: Masters of the Desert (1967-05-23) — Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.
• E11: Cancer – The Search for the Virus (1967-06-06) — In this the first of two programmes dealing with cancer, Horizon looks at the intensive search now going on to discover whether a virus is one of the causes of cancer in humans and
• E12: Cancer – The Smoker's Gamble (1967-06-20) — Why is there doubt in so many people's minds about the relationship between lung cancer and smoking? Tonight's programme examines the latest scientific evidence in detail.
• E13: Science and the Supernatural (1967-07-04) — Horizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).
• E14: Hypnosis (1967-07-18) — Horizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.
• E15: The War of the Boffins (1967-09-12) — During the human struggles between the British and German air forces … another conflict was going on step by step, month by month. This was a secret war whose battles were lost o
• E17: Aspects of Alcohol (1967-09-26) — Horizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbon 14 used for determining how old an object is.
• E18: Lords of the Sea (1967-10-10) — Horizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.
• E19: Will Art Last? (1967-10-24) — In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.
• E20: Air Safety: The Unknown Factor (1967-11-17) — Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.
• E21: The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary (1967-11-21) — Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.
• E22: Koestler on Creativity (1967-12-05) — Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.
• E23: The World of Ted Serios (1967-12-12) — Horizon looks into the life of Ted Serios who claims to have psychic powers and to be able to project images onto film using only his thoughts.
• E24: Professor in Toyland (1967-12-24) — Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.

1968

• E1: An Ingenious Man – Sir H. John Baker (1968-01-02) — Horizon reports on Prof. Sir John Baker who is a distinguished British engineer, tracing his career beginning from his early work on airships.
• E2: Man's Best Friend (1968-01-30) — This episode covers interviews with surgeons and research workers discussing the need for animal experimentation in medical work.
• E3: Once a Junkie (1968-02-13) — In England addicts get their heroin, and often cocaine, on the National Health Service: our system has prevented the growth of a drug-based criminal world, but Americans say that o
• E4: Towns, Traffic and Tomorrow (1968-02-27) — Horizon explores the problem of increasing traffic in Britain.
• E5: The Man Makers (1968-03-12) — In this episode, Horizon looks into the advances in medical science.
• E6: Man in Search of Himself (1968-03-26) — This episode presents the view by G. M. Carstairs, social psychiatrist, about the pleasures and problems of life in Britain in 1968.
• E7: Investigating Murder (1968-04-09) — Horizon looks into modern methods of crime investigation.
• E8: The Equation of Murder (1968-05-07) — Horizon follows reporter Paul Ferris as he examines the causes and motitives for murder.
• E9: The Lindemann Enigma (1968-09-12) — This is the story of the life and career of Winston Churchill's scientific advisor, Lord Cherwell, during World War II.
• E10: From Field to Factory (1968-09-19) — Horizon explores "factory farming" techniques for chickens and other livestock.
• E11: Comfort on Aging (1968-09-26) — In this episode, Dr. Alex Comfort looks at the scientific evidence for old age and the problems caused by ageing.
• E12: Experiments in War (1968-10-03) — Horizon investigates how science is used to enhance weapons of war, tactics, and strategy.
• E13: Medecine in Russia (1968-10-10) — In 1917, Russia had fewer than twenty doctors for every million of her people. Today, the figure is over 2,000: almost twice as many as in this country. The organisational changes
• E14: African Medicine (1968-10-17) — In this episode, Horizon looks into controversial medicine practices in Nigeria.
• E15: The Broken Bridge (1968-10-24) — This episode by Horizon is about Irene Kassorlas, who's new treatment for autism has produced positive results with mute children.
• E16: Children Without Words (1968-10-31) — Horizon reports on speech and comprehension disorders in children, and how to educate them.
• E17: The Computer Revolution (1968-11-07) — Horizon explores how computers are changing our way of life.
• E18: Doctor's Dilemma (1968-11-14) — Horizon reports on the effects of the birth control pill on the body and how the pill can effect the changes in glucose metabolism.
• E19: In the Matter of Dr. Alfred Nobel (1968-11-21) — This is the fictional drama about the evidence for and against the charges that Dr. Alfred Noble misused his invention of dynamite.
• E20: Wheels Within Wheels (1968-11-28) — Horizon explores the possibility that our civilization as a whole can be viewed as a pattern based on the wheel.
• E21: Black Man, White Science (1968-12-05) — In this episode, Horizon investigates the study of science by african americans.
• E22: The Hidden World (1968-12-12) — In this episode, Horizon reports on the exploration and survey of the oceans of the world.
• E23: The Talgai Skull (1968-12-19) — Prof. N.W.G. MacIntosh investigates the origin of the Talgai Skull found in Australia in 1886.
• E24: Phantasmagoria or The Story of the Magic Lantern (1968-12-24) — In this episode of Horizon, Michael Balfour invites us to share in the mystery and magic of the "Magic Lantern".

1969

• E1: Inside Every Fat Man (1969-01-02) — Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.
• E2: If Only They Could Speak (1969-01-09) — A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.
• E3: The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye (1969-01-16) — Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.
• E4: The Years of the Locust (1969-01-23) — In this episode, Horizon reports on how in the last 2 years, the desert locust has been breeding in Southern Arabia by the Red Sea.
• E5: The Gifted Child (1969-01-30) — Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.
• E6: The Last of the Polymaths (1969-02-06) — This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.
• E7: Music and the Mind (1969-02-13) — Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.
• E8: Report on V.D. (1969-02-20) — This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.
• E9: Extra-Sensory Perception (1969-02-27) — In scientific circles extra-sensory perception is a subject which has never failed to arouse controversy and skepticism. Cecil King, having spent a lifetime in Fleet Street, discus
• E10: The Drift from Science (1969-03-06) — This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.
• E11: Powers of Persuasion (1969-03-13) — This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.
• E12: The View from Space (1969-03-20) — Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.
• E13: The Unborn Patient (1969-03-27) — Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.
• E14: The Physicist in the Kitchen (1969-04-03) — Nicholas Kurti, Professor of Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, specializes in the field of low temperature science. He is acknowledged among his friends as an expert in
• E15: King Solomon's Garden (1969-04-10) — This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.
• E16: Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow (1969-04-24) — Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.
• E17: Shark (1969-05-01) — In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.
• E18: Technology and Self-Determination (1969-05-15) — Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.
• E19: After Apollo (1969-05-22) — The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.
• E20: Discovery (1969-05-29) — Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.
• E21: Machines and People (1969-06-05) — The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
• E22: Science on Safari (1969-09-15) — The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
• E23: A True Madness (1969-09-22) — Schizophrenia is an unsolved mystery of modern medicine. Horizon looks at some of the possible explanations and their relevance not only to schizophrenics but to the mystery of the
• E24: Problems of Pain (1969-09-29) — In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.
• E25: Four Fast Legs and a Nose (1969-10-06) — Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.
• E26: Father of the Man (1969-10-13) — Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.
• E27: Master of the Microscope (1969-10-20) — In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.
• E28: C.E.R.N. (1969-10-27) — Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.
• E29: Snap, Crackle and Bang (1969-11-03) — The props for this programme are pistols, muskets and, above all, explosives. For 30 years now these are what Colonel Brian Shaw, marksman and lecturer in chemistry, has been using
• E30: Cancer Now (1969-11-10) — A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.
• E31: There's a Rhino in My Sugar (1969-11-17) — For some time now rhinos have been disturbing the workers in the Tanzanian sugar plantation and ripping open the plastic water pipes to get at the water. These incidents, and the h
• E32: Fit to Live? (1969-11-24) — Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.
• E33: Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs (1969-12-01) — Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.
• E34: How Much Do You Drink? (1969-12-08) — Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.
• E35: A Game of War (1969-12-15) — Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.
• E36: Bread (1969-12-22) — Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.
• E37: For the Safety of Mankind (1969-12-29) — Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Horizon have? 62 season(s) with 1174 episodes.

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