Horizon · S4 · E23
The World of Ted Serios
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.
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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.
Season 4
1Sons of Cain
60 minJan 17, 1967
Horizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?
2When Is a Body Dead? / How to Win Friends and Influence People
60 minJan 31, 1967
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 circulation and respiration. Is it now meaningless to define 'death' as the cessation of a heart beat? Why do so many people have difficulty In communicating, or in simply getting-on with other people? Psychologists have now begun to analyse aspects of social behaviour in a way which they believe will lead to more pleasant and more effective human relationships.
3How Best to Make a Man / How Best to Make a Scientist
60 minFeb 14, 1967
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 qualify new students.
4Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday
60 minFeb 28, 1967
Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.
5Migraine
60 minMar 14, 1967
Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.
6How Safe Is Surgery?
60 minMar 28, 1967
Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.
7Sleep and Dreams
60 minApr 11, 1967
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 never dreamed in his life, or so he says until he is woken by scientists in the middle of a dream trip to New York.
8The Shape of War to Come
60 minApr 25, 1967
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 their use?
9Memory
60 minMay 9, 1967
Horizon explores the part of the human brain devoted to memory.
10Masters of the Desert
60 minMay 23, 1967
Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.
11Cancer - The Search for the Virus
60 minJun 6, 1967
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 at the implications of this search in the treatment for such killer diseases as leukemia.
12Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble
60 minJun 20, 1967
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.
13Science and the Supernatural
60 minJul 4, 1967
Horizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).
14Hypnosis
60 minJul 18, 1967
Horizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.
15The War of the Boffins
60 minSep 12, 1967
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 or won unknown to the public: and only with difficulty is it comprehended even now by those outside the smalt high scientific circles concerned.
17Aspects of Alcohol
60 minSep 26, 1967
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.
18Lords of the Sea
60 minOct 10, 1967
Horizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.
19Will Art Last?
60 minOct 24, 1967
In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.
20Air Safety: The Unknown Factor
60 minNov 17, 1967
Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.
21The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary
60 minNov 21, 1967
Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.
22Koestler on Creativity
60 minDec 5, 1967
Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.
23The World of Ted Serios
60 minDec 12, 1967Now viewing
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.
24Professor in Toyland
60 minDec 24, 1967
Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.