-
-
-
Horizon : Season 2001
-
Air date: 25 Jan '01 - 11 episodesHorizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
-
-
List of Episodes (11)
-
Horizon (1974)
-
1. The Mystery of the Miami Circle
25 Jan '01Builders in Miami, Florida unearth a ring of holes. The State then pays $27million to preserve either a Native American village or remnants of a 1950s sewerage system.
-
Horizon (1974)
-
2. The Missing Link
01 Feb '01A trail from Greenland to Britain via Latvia offers new evidence into how evolution could have seen aquatic life form legs and walk.
-
Horizon (1974)
-
3. Killer Algae
08 Feb '01A tropical seaweed that escaped from an aquarium is endangering sea life in the Mediterranean and has gone on to infect the California coast.
-
Horizon (1974)
-
4. Ecstasy and Agony
15 Feb '01Tim Lawrence was an all-action stuntman until hit by Parkinson's Disease. Horizon follows his hopes of a more normal lifestyle using Ecstasy - a class A illegal drug.
-
Horizon (1974)
-
5. Snowball Earth
22 Feb '01The controversial theory that for millions of years the Earth was plunged into catastrophe - entirely smothered in ice up to one kilometre thick.
-
Horizon (1974)
-
6. Taming the Problem Child
06 Mar '01Two disruptive children are followed through a controversial treatment regime.
-
Horizon (1974)
-
7. The Mystery of the Persian Mummy
20 Sep '01In November 2000, the international press reported an amazing find: a mummy, which was claimed to be that of an ancient Persian princess, over 2,600 years old. She was encased in a carved stone coffin, inside a wooden sarcophagus and was wearing an exquisite golden crown and mask. Her cloth-bound body was dressed with golden artefacts, with an inscription on her breastplate that read, "I am the daughter of the great King Xerxes, I am Rhodugune." All the internal organs had been taken out of he
-
Horizon (1974)
-
8. The Ape that Took Over the World
04 Oct '01In 2001, scientists announced an amazing discovery: the oldest skull of a human ancestor ever found. The 3 million year old fossil was remarkably complete, and unlike any previous fossil find. Its discovery - by a team led by Meave Leakey of the famous Leakey fossil-hunting family - has revolutionised our understanding of how humans evolved. The great mystery of our evolution is how an ape could have evolved into the extraordinary creature that is a human being. There has never been another an
-
Horizon (1974)
-
9. Life Blood
11 Oct '01Matthew Farrow was born with a rare and fatal blood disease, Fanconi's anaemia. His family and doctors thought he was going to die. Instead, aged just five, he became the first person in the world to be given a radical new treatment that few believed would work. It saved his life. The treatment was remarkably simple. A small quantity of blood taken from a newborn baby's umbilical cord and placenta was infused into him. Thanks to this cord blood, Matthew Farrow is now a healthy teenager and the
-
Horizon (1974)
-
10. The Death Star
18 Oct '01Out in deepest space lurks a force of almost unimaginable power. Explosions of extraordinary violence, are blasting through the Universe every day. If one ever struck our Solar System it would destroy our Sun and all the planets. For years no one could work out what was causing these awesome explosions. Now scientists think they have identified the culprit. It's the most extreme object ever found in the Universe; they have christened it a 'hypernova'.
-
Horizon (1974)
-
11. Cloning the First Human
25 Oct '01Doctors Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori claim they are ready to embark on the greatest human experiment of our age. They say they will attempt to clone a human being before the year is out. Most people think the objections to this are ethical - human cloning would create many moral dilemmas. There is another question that few ever ask: is the science actually ready yet for cloning healthy humans? Horizon follows the latest research, which has led many scientists to believe that Zavos and
-
