David Stewart
Director
Horizon (1964)
1969
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
S6E1 - Inside Every Fat Man
Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.
Jan. 2, 1969, midnight
S6E2 - If Only They Could Speak
A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.
Jan. 9, 1969, midnight
S6E3 - The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye
Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.
Jan. 16, 1969, midnight
S6E4 - The Years of the Locust
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.
Jan. 23, 1969, midnight
S6E5 - The Gifted Child
Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.
Jan. 30, 1969, midnight
S6E6 - The Last of the Polymaths
This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.
Feb. 6, 1969, midnight
S6E7 - Music and the Mind
Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.
Feb. 13, 1969, midnight
S6E8 - Report on V.D.
This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.
Feb. 20, 1969, midnight
S6E9 - Extra-Sensory Perception
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.
Feb. 27, 1969, midnight
S6E10 - The Drift from Science
This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.
March 6, 1969, midnight
S6E11 - Powers of Persuasion
This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.
March 13, 1969, midnight
S6E12 - The View from Space
Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.
March 20, 1969, midnight
S6E13 - The Unborn Patient
Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.
March 27, 1969, midnight
S6E14 - The Physicist in the Kitchen
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.
April 3, 1969, midnight
S6E15 - King Solomon's Garden
This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.
April 10, 1969, midnight
S6E16 - Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow
Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.
April 24, 1969, midnight
S6E17 - Shark
In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.
May 1, 1969, midnight
S6E18 - Technology and Self-Determination
Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.
May 15, 1969, midnight
S6E19 - After Apollo
The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.
May 22, 1969, midnight
S6E20 - Discovery
Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.
May 29, 1969, midnight
S6E21 - Machines and People
The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
June 5, 1969, midnight
S6E22 - Science on Safari
The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
Sept. 15, 1969, midnight
S6E23 - A True Madness
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.
Sept. 22, 1969, midnight
S6E24 - Problems of Pain
In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.
Sept. 29, 1969, midnight
S6E25 - Four Fast Legs and a Nose
Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.
Oct. 6, 1969, midnight
S6E26 - Father of the Man
Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.
Oct. 13, 1969, midnight
S6E27 - Master of the Microscope
In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.
Oct. 20, 1969, midnight
S6E28 - C.E.R.N.
Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.
Oct. 27, 1969, midnight
S6E29 - Snap, Crackle and Bang
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.
Nov. 3, 1969, midnight
S6E30 - Cancer Now
A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.
Nov. 10, 1969, midnight
S6E31 - There's a Rhino in My Sugar
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.
Nov. 17, 1969, midnight
S6E32 - Fit to Live?
Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.
Nov. 24, 1969, midnight
S6E33 - Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs
Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.
Dec. 1, 1969, midnight
S6E34 - How Much Do You Drink?
Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.
Dec. 8, 1969, midnight
S6E35 - A Game of War
Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.
Dec. 15, 1969, midnight
S6E36 - Bread
Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.
Dec. 22, 1969, midnight
S6E37 - For the Safety of Mankind
Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.
Dec. 29, 1969, 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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