• Air date: 17 Jan '67 20 episodes
      Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
  • List of Episodes (20)
    • 1. Sons of Cain

      17 Jan '67
      Horizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?
    • 2. How Best to Make a Man, How Best to Make a Scientist

      17 Feb '67
      In this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. This school uses a competition held for Russian school children to qualify new students.
    • 3. Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday

      28 Feb '67
      Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.
    • 4. Migraine

      14 Mar '67
      Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.
    • 5. How Safe Is Surgery?

      28 Mar '67
      Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.
    • 6. The Shape of War to Come

      25 Apr '67
    • 7. Memory

      09 May '67
      Horizon explores the part of the human brain devoted to memory.
    • 8. Masters of the Desert

      23 May '67
      Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.
    • 9. Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble

      20 Jun '67
      Horizon looks at the links between smoking and cancer. Presented by Christopher Chataway.
    • 10. Science and the Supernatural

      04 Jul '67
      Horizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).
    • 11. Hypnosis

      18 Jul '67
      Horizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.
    • 12. The War of the Boffins

      12 Sep '67
    • 13. Aspects of Alcohol

      26 Sep '67
      Horizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbon 14 used for determining how old an object is.
    • 14. Lords of the Sea

      10 Oct '67
      Horizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.
    • 15. Will Art Last?

      24 Oct '67
      In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.
    • 16. Air Safety, The Unknown Factor

      17 Nov '67
      Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.
    • 17. Title Unknown - 21 November 1967

      21 Nov '67
      Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.
    • 18. Koestler on Creativity

      05 Dec '67
      Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.
    • 19. The World of Ted Serios

      12 Dec '67
      Horizon looks into the life of Ted Serios who claims to have psychic powers and to be able to project images onto film using only his thoughts.
    • 20. Professor in Toyland

      24 Dec '67
      Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.