Horizon

1Inside Every Fat Man

60 minJan 2, 1969

Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.

2If Only They Could Speak

60 minJan 9, 1969

A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.

3The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye

60 minJan 16, 1969

Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.

4The Years of the Locust

60 minJan 23, 1969

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.

5The Gifted Child

60 minJan 30, 1969

Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.

6The Last of the Polymaths

60 minFeb 6, 1969

This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.

7Music and the Mind

60 minFeb 13, 1969

Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.

8Report on V.D.

60 minFeb 20, 1969

This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.

9Extra-Sensory Perception

60 minFeb 27, 1969

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, discusses, with due caution, a subject which he believes might be of primary importance to scientists in the coming century.

10The Drift from Science

60 minMar 6, 1969

This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.

11Powers of Persuasion

60 minMar 13, 1969

This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.

12The View from Space

60 minMar 20, 1969

Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.

13The Unborn Patient

60 minMar 27, 1969

Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.

14The Physicist in the Kitchen

60 minApr 3, 1969

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 the kitchen.

15King Solomon's Garden

60 minApr 10, 1969

This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.

16Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow

60 minApr 24, 1969

Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.

17Shark

60 minMay 1, 1969

In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.

18Technology and Self-Determination

60 minMay 15, 1969

Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.

19After Apollo

60 minMay 22, 1969

The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.

20Discovery

60 minMay 29, 1969

Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.

21Machines and People

60 minJun 5, 1969

The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.

22Science on Safari

60 minSep 15, 1969

The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.

23A True Madness

60 minSep 22, 1969

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 human mind.

24Problems of Pain

60 minSep 29, 1969

In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.

25Four Fast Legs and a Nose

60 minOct 6, 1969

Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.

26Father of the Man

60 minOct 13, 1969

Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.

27Master of the Microscope

60 minOct 20, 1969

In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.

28C.E.R.N.

60 minOct 27, 1969

Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.

29Snap, Crackle and Bang

60 minNov 3, 1969

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 in his now famous lecture on explosives. He gave it once again for Horizon before an invited audience at University College, London.

30Cancer Now

60 minNov 10, 1969

A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.

31There's a Rhino in My Sugar

60 minNov 17, 1969

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 hunting of the rhinos by helicopter, are typical of the increasing conflict between wildlife and man for land in East Africa.

32Fit to Live?

60 minNov 24, 1969

Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.

33Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs

60 minDec 1, 1969

Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.

34How Much Do You Drink?

60 minDec 8, 1969

Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.

35A Game of War

60 minDec 15, 1969

Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.

36Bread

60 minDec 22, 1969

Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.

37For the Safety of Mankind

60 minDec 29, 1969

Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.