Horizon
This long-running science series explores big questions and surprising discoveries, unpacking mysteries across topics from astronomy to psychology and beyond. Guided by expert voices, it aims to make complex ideas clear while taking viewers into unfamiliar worlds and fresh ways of thinking.
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Season 23
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E1
Are You a Racist?
Horizon presents a documentary about how white racists and black victims of racism volunteered to spend time in an isolated house living and talking about their prejudices.
Jan 6, 1986 -
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E2
Genesis
This Horizon episode is about the discovery of a molecular key which may literally unlock the mystery of life for all creatures.
Jan 13, 1986 -
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E3
Bitter Cold
Horizon presents a documentary on scientists who take themselves to Antarctica in 1980 to act as physical and mental guinea pigs.
Jan 20, 1986 -
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E4
The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe
Horizon explores the myth about the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin.
Jan 27, 1986 -
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E5
Outbreak: The Microbe Masters the Mould
In this episode, Horizon explores the question of when antibiotics were first developed it seemed infectious disease might be eliminated, so what has gone wrong?
Feb 3, 1986 -
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E6
Science...Fiction?
Horizon investigates the truths of science and it's theories.
Feb 17, 1986 -
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E7
The Children of Eve
Horizon explores at the latest discoveries about just where modern man came from.
Feb 24, 1986 -
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E8
The New Face of Leprosy
This episode of Horizon documents leprosy in the USA and India with a focus on medical developments for it's cure and control.
Mar 3, 1986 -
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E9
Hi-Tech à la Française
Horizon investigates the remarkable technological transformation of France over the last 25 years.
Mar 10, 1986 -
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E10
In the Wake of HMS Sheffield
Will the new strategies and weapons introduced because of the Falklands war be a match for the next generation of weapons? Horizon presents this documentary to answer that question.
Mar 17, 1986 -
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E11
AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus
Horizon looks at the virus that causes AIDS and the research into vaccines and drugs being developed to counteract the devastating disease of the immune system.
Mar 24, 1986 -
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E12
The Case of the Frozen Addict
In this documentary, Horizon reports on how doctors in America found that addicts using designer drugs developed Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms.
Apr 7, 1986 -
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E13
Nice Guys Finish First
In the interview by Horizon, Richard Dawkins discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favours co-operative behaviour, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the prisoner's dilemma game.
Apr 14, 1986 -
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E14
The Men Who Bottled a Cow
This is an interesting Horizon presentation on decoys that look and smell like cows to the tsetse fly who carry a disease fatal to farm animals.
Apr 21, 1986 -
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E15
Twice Five Plus the Wings of a Bird
Horizon researches how we acquire mathematical abilities in the first place.
Apr 28, 1986 -
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E16
What Makes an Animal Smart?
This report by Horizon takes a look at the instinctive side of intelligence in animals that shows us that we owe more to instinct than we may care to think.
May 12, 1986 -
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E17
A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt
Horizon presents a simple, but effective, cure for diarrea in young children; sugar and salt.
May 19, 1986 -
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E18
Uranus Encounter
In this episode, Horizon brings you Voyager's encounter with Uranus and the mysteries that are being relayed back to the scientists.
May 26, 1986 -
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E19
Who Built Stonehenge?
Horizon presents an interview with Prof. C. Renfrew as he questions the accepted wisdom about the origins of Stonehenge in England.
Jun 9, 1986 -
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E21
Battered Baby: From Generation to Generation
This is the first part of a two-part series on battered children.
Jun 16, 1986 -
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E22
Battered Baby: Breaking the Chain
This is the second part of a two-part series on battered children.
Jun 23, 1986 -
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E23
Doctors to Be
In a unique project, Horizon follows a group of medical students into the next century.
Jun 30, 1986