• Air date: 05 Jan '76 30 episodes
      Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
  • List of Episodes (30)
    • 1. The Transplant Experience

      05 Jan '76
      Horizon investigates heart transplant research and techniques perfected and currently used by Dr. Norman Shumway in Britain.
    • 2. Intimate Strangers

      12 Jan '76
      This episode of Horizon is about symbiosis - the close association between two or more species for their mutual benefit.
    • 3. A Fair Share of What Little We Have

      19 Jan '76
      Horizon reports on the country of Tanzania, a country that spends only one dollar per person on health services, and more than half of all children born there die before the age of five.
    • 4. The Incredible Machine

      26 Jan '76
      This episode of Horizon explores what actually happens inside our bodies using new optical techniques.
    • 5. King Coal Revived

      02 Feb '76
      Horizon examines the projected expansion of the coal mining industry.
    • 6. A Question of Trust

      09 Feb '76
      In this episode of Horizon, we look at the need for confidence in the doctor to patient relationship.
    • 7. The Case of the Bermuda Triangle

      16 Feb '76
      Horizon investigates the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.
    • 8. The Lords of the Labyrinth

      23 Feb '76
      Horizon traces back the origins and development of the pre-Incan Chimu civilization of Peru.
    • 9. Inside the Shark

      01 Mar '76
      This documentary by Horizon takes a look at the shark, the supreme predator of the sea.
    • 10. The Chemical Dream

      08 Mar '76
      Horizon reports on enzymes and the way they are being put on work in the industry and medicine fields.
    • 11. The Edelin Affair

      15 Mar '76
      This is a Horizon reconstruction of the trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin who was arrested after performing an abortion in 1973.
    • 12. The World of Margaret Mead

      22 Mar '76
      This Horizon reports is about Margaret Mead, who at age 74, is one of America's most influential social scientists.
    • 13. The Pathway from Madness

      29 Mar '76
      Horizon investigates the developments in and the treatment of schizophrenia.
    • 14. Geronimo's Children

      05 Apr '76
      This report by Horizon investigates the aggressive and oppressive history of the Mescalero and Chiricuhua Apache Indians of New Mexico in the USA.
    • 15. The Vision of the Blind

      12 Apr '76
      This Horizon documentary investigates the ways that the blind and partially blind are aided.
    • 16. A Lesson for Teachers

      26 Apr '76
      Horizon explores the comparative research study into progressive versus formal primary school teaching in the UK.
    • 17. Why Did Stuart Die?

      03 May '76
      This episode of Horizon delves in the research into the causes for, and the methods of eradicating 'cot deaths' in Britain.
    • 18. The Children of Peru

      17 May '76
      Horizon looks at food production in Peru today.
    • 19. Dying

      24 May '76
      This is a Horizon documentary on how a widow faces the last day of her husband's life and the story of three other people who know they only have a short time to live.
    • 20. A Home Like Ours... A Story of Four Children

      07 Jun '76
      Horizon investigates a local authority residential home in Wandsworth, Britain, for emotionally disturbed children.
    • 21. What's Wrong with the Sun?

      14 Jun '76
      In the episode, Horizon explores the history of man's understanding of the sun's structure and observations in recent years.
    • 22. The Bull's Eye War

      25 Oct '76
      Horizon looks at today's precision guided weapons.
    • 23. The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs

      01 Nov '76
      Horizon makes an investigation into claims by a group of scientists who theorize that dinosaurs were not actaully cold-blooded reptiles, but hot-blooded, like mammals.
    • 24. Billion Dollar Bubble

      08 Nov '76
      This is an investigative report by Horizon that shows how the Equity Funding Corp. of America produced two billion dollars worth of phoney insurance.
    • 25. The Selfish Gene

      15 Nov '76
      This Horizon documentary explores animal behavior. Animals do not act for the good of their own species, rather for the preservation of their own genes.