
Episodes (22)
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Ep 1
Are You a Racist?
1986-01-06•60m
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.
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Ep 2
Genesis
1986-01-13•60m
This Horizon episode is about the discovery of a molecular key which may literally unlock the mystery of life for all creatures.
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Ep 3
Bitter Cold
1986-01-20•60m
Horizon presents a documentary on scientists who take themselves to Antarctica in 1980 to act as physical and mental guinea pigs.
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Ep 4
The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe
1986-01-27•60m
Horizon explores the myth about the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin.
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Ep 5
Outbreak: The Microbe Masters the Mould
1986-02-03•60m
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?
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Ep 6
Science...Fiction?
1986-02-17•60m
Horizon investigates the truths of science and it's theories.
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Ep 7
The Children of Eve
1986-02-24•60m
Horizon explores at the latest discoveries about just where modern man came from.
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Ep 8
The New Face of Leprosy
1986-03-03•60m
This episode of Horizon documents leprosy in the USA and India with a focus on medical developments for it's cure and control.
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Ep 9
Hi-Tech à la Française
1986-03-10•60m
Horizon investigates the remarkable technological transformation of France over the last 25 years.
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Ep 10
In the Wake of HMS Sheffield
1986-03-17•60m
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.
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Ep 11
AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus
1986-03-24•60m
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.
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Ep 12
The Case of the Frozen Addict
1986-04-07•60m
In this documentary, Horizon reports on how doctors in America found that addicts using designer drugs developed Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms.
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Ep 13
Nice Guys Finish First
1986-04-14•60m
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.
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Ep 14
The Men Who Bottled a Cow
1986-04-21•60m
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.
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Ep 15
Twice Five Plus the Wings of a Bird
1986-04-28•60m
Horizon researches how we acquire mathematical abilities in the first place.
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Ep 16
What Makes an Animal Smart?
1986-05-12•60m
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.
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Ep 17
A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt
1986-05-19•60m
Horizon presents a simple, but effective, cure for diarrea in young children; sugar and salt.
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Ep 18
Uranus Encounter
1986-05-26•60m
In this episode, Horizon brings you Voyager's encounter with Uranus and the mysteries that are being relayed back to the scientists.
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Ep 19
Who Built Stonehenge?
1986-06-09•60m
Horizon presents an interview with Prof. C. Renfrew as he questions the accepted wisdom about the origins of Stonehenge in England.
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Ep 21
Battered Baby: From Generation to Generation
1986-06-16•60m
This is the first part of a two-part series on battered children.
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Ep 22
Battered Baby: Breaking the Chain
1986-06-23•60m
This is the second part of a two-part series on battered children.
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Ep 23
Doctors to Be
1986-06-30•60m
In a unique project, Horizon follows a group of medical students into the next century.