David Stewart
Director
Horizon (1964)
1981
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Released Feb. 4, 1964
Episode 60 min
10+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.spatial-awareness, imdb.science, imdb.reenactment, imdb.technology, imdb.nature, imdb.science-and-technology-documentary, imdb.deep-dive, imdb.one-word-title
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S18E1 - Spend and Prosper
Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.
Jan. 5, 1981, midnight
S18E2 - A Whole New Medicine
This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.
Jan. 12, 1981, midnight
S18E3 - The Qualyub Project
Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.
Jan. 19, 1981, midnight
S18E4 - No One Will Take Me Seriously
Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.
Jan. 26, 1981, midnight
S18E5 - Living with Dying
Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.
Feb. 2, 1981, midnight
S18E6 - A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb
In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.
Feb. 9, 1981, midnight
S18E7 - Who Will Deliver Your Baby?
Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.
Feb. 16, 1981, midnight
S18E8 - West of Bangalore
A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.
March 2, 1981, midnight
S18E9 - Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts
Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.
March 9, 1981, midnight
S18E10 - Hello Universe!
Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.
March 16, 1981, midnight
S18E11 - Voices from Silent Hands
Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.
March 23, 1981, midnight
S18E12 - Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.
March 30, 1981, midnight
S18E13 - East of Bombay
This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are common killers in Indian communities. Also, a report on Salubai, one of these native health workers and her work at Kamkhed in Western India.
April 6, 1981, midnight
S18E14 - Resolution on Saturn - The Rings
Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
April 11, 1981, midnight
S18E15 - Resolution on Saturn - The Moons
Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
April 13, 1981, midnight
S18E16 - Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near where they live.
Sept. 28, 1981, midnight
S18E17 - The Hunt for the Legion Killer
Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.
Oct. 5, 1981, midnight
S18E18 - Breaking in Children
In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.
Oct. 12, 1981, midnight
S18E19 - The Grid
Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierce competition of the French and Italian racings teams by finding ways around new rulings to make their cars first on the grid.
Oct. 19, 1981, midnight
S18E20 - Butterflies or Barley?
Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.
Oct. 26, 1981, midnight
S18E21 - Science for the People
Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical processing plant from the UK and computers from the USA when they have a quarter of the world's scientists and still give science and research the highest priority.
Nov. 2, 1981, midnight
S18E22 - The Race to Ruin
This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for the extensive space defense system to match the Russians based on a misconception of the USSR war effort from space?
Nov. 9, 1981, midnight
S18E23 - Death of the Dinosaurs
Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.
Nov. 16, 1981, midnight
S18E24 - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965. In this documentary he talks about his motivations to be a scientist and a teacher of science.
Nov. 23, 1981, midnight
S18E25 - The Cornucopia
Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies which leads to the creation of overproduction of agricultural products. Do they need to reform the policy?
Nov. 30, 1981, midnight
S18E26 - A Race Against Time
Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first run.
Dec. 7, 1981, midnight
S18E27 - Painting by Numbers
Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It looks at the manipulation of 3-D images to paint, animate, design, and test scientific hypothesis.
Dec. 21, 1981, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 77006 min.
Released: Feb. 4, 1964
Last Air Date: Oct. 6, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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