• Air date: 02 Jan '66 24 episodes
      Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
  • List of Episodes (24)
    • 1. Title Unknown - 02 January 1966

      02 Jan '66
      Horizon follows experiments on the eyes being undertaken at the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. The purpose of the experiments are to discover if our eyes can tell us things we might prefer to keep secret.
    • 2. Title Unknown - 16 January 1966

      16 Jan '66
      Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs.
    • 3. A Man of Two Visions

      30 Jan '66
      A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as an accomplished artist under the name of Alcopley.
    • 4. Title Unknown - 13 February 1966

      13 Feb '66
      Horizon looks at the research of dolphins being conducted at a United States naval base in Port Magu, California. The research concentrates on the dolphin's abilities of navigation.
    • 5. Title Unknown - 27 February 1966

      27 Feb '66
      Arthur C. Clarke talks about the film of his best selling book "2001: A Space Odyssey". Horizon looks at some of the sets and models being used in the film.
    • 6. Title Unknown - 13 March 1966

      13 Mar '66
    • 7. Title Unknown - 27 March 1966

      27 Mar '66
      Horizon looks into inventors who struggle against exploding technology, the buying power of great industries and taxation problems to make their leaps into the unknown.
    • 8. Title Unknown - 10 April 1966

      10 Apr '66
      Horizon investigates the problems of preserving ancient buildings in Athens and Rome.
    • 9. Title Unknown - 24 April 1966

      24 Apr '66
      There is no information on this episode.
    • 10. Man in Space

      08 May '66
      Horizon travels to the spacecraft center in Houston, Texas to study astronauts in space and how they react to being in space and the stresses of launching and re-entry.
    • 11. Title Unknown - 22 May 1966

      22 May '66
      Horizon looks at the possibilities of landing a man on the planet Mars.
    • 12. Title Unknown - 05 June 1966

      05 Jun '66
      Gordon Taylor meets with Konrad Lorenz, the inventor of ethology, and interviews him about his work on animal instinct and his theories about human instinct.
    • 13. Title Unknown - 19 June 1966

      19 Jun '66
      Horizon explores substitute 'phantoms' which are used in radiation studies, manned spaceflight experiments and accident research that gives valuable information on the limits of tolerance on the human body.
    • 14. Title Unknown - 03 July 1966

      03 Jul '66
      Dr. John Gurdon talks about the action of the chromosomes puffing when they undergo intense genetic activity.
    • 15. The Lonely Children

      17 Jul '66
      Horizon investigates the research conducted in England and America on the problems associated with autistic children.
    • 16. Title Unknown - 31 July 1966

      31 Jul '66
      This episode of Horizon reports on the famous science fiction writer, H. G. Wells.
    • 17. Title Unknown - 11 September 1966

      11 Sep '66
      Horizon explores the ideas that science fiction has value to real scientific research.
    • 18. Title Unknown - 25 September 1966

      25 Sep '66
      Horizon reports on the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    • 19. Ten Years in the Antarctic

      10 Oct '66
      Horizon looks at the scientific research being carried out in the Antarctic under the guidance the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) which was formed in 1856.
    • 20. The Athlete

      24 Oct '66
      Horizon investigates the stresses on athletes.
    • 21. From Peenemunde to the Moon

      07 Nov '66
      Christopher Chataway presents a program on the development of the rocket, first as a weapon, and then for the American space program.
    • 22. Title Unknown - 21 November 1966

      21 Nov '66
      Doctors and psychologists talk about the problems inherent in the determination of sex.
    • 23. The Structure of Life

      05 Dec '66
      This program shows the work of Ernst Chain, one of the discoverers of antibiotics, now a Professor of Biochemistry at the Imperial College in London.
    • 24. Hand Me My Sword, Humphrey

      25 Dec '66
      A sequence of clips which shows an episode of the drama "A Hundred Years of Humphrey Hastings" which centers around a family in the 1880's in which the father has a great interest in natural philosophy and science.