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Horizon : Season 6
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Air date: 02 Jan '69 - 37 episodesHorizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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List of Episodes (37)
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1. Inside Every Fat Man
02 Jan '69Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.
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2. If Only They Could Speak
09 Jan '69A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.
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3. The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye
16 Jan '69Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.
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4. The Years of the Locust
23 Jan '69In this episode, Horizon reports on how in the last 2 years, the desert locust has been breeding in Southern Arabia by the Red Sea.
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5. The Gifted Child
30 Jan '69Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.
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6. The Last of the Polymaths
06 Feb '69This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.
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7. Music and the Mind
13 Feb '69Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.
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8. Report on V.D.
20 Feb '69This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.
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9. Extra-Sensory Perception
27 Feb '69In scientific circles extra-sensory perception is a subject which has never failed to arouse controversy and skepticism. Cecil King, having spent a lifetime in Fleet Street, discusses, with due caution, a subject which he believes might be of primary importance to scientists in the coming century.
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10. The Drift from Science
06 Mar '69This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.
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11. Powers of Persuasion
13 Mar '69This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.
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12. The View from Space
20 Mar '69Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.
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13. The Unborn Patient
27 Mar '69Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.
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14. The Physicist in the Kitchen
03 Apr '69Nicholas Kurti, Professor of Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, specializes in the field of low temperature science. He is acknowledged among his friends as an expert in the kitchen.
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15. King Solomon's Garden
10 Apr '69This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.
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16. Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow
24 Apr '69Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.
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17. Shark
01 May '69In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.
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18. Technology and Self-Determination
15 May '69Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.
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19. After Apollo
22 May '69The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.
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20. Discovery
29 May '69Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.
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21. Machines and People
05 Jun '69The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
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22. Science on Safari
15 Sep '69The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
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23. A True Madness
22 Sep '69Schizophrenia is an unsolved mystery of modern medicine. Horizon looks at some of the possible explanations and their relevance not only to schizophrenics but to the mystery of the human mind.
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24. Problems of Pain
29 Sep '69In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.
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25. Four Fast Legs and a Nose
06 Oct '69Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.
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