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Excellent BBC science show delivered by top industry recognised professors. Loved by millions of fans and academic institutions worldwide. It really is the model for science communication.
26 episodes
Horizon - 1975
First aired Jan 20, 1975Season 12
Browse all 26 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.
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Episodes
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Episode 1
The Killer Dust
Jan 20, 197560 min
This investigative report by Horizon covers an investigation into the deaths of people who inhaled asbestos dust at Acre Mill, Yorkshire, England.
Episode 2
A Time to Be Born
Jan 27, 197550 min
Investigates the growing tendency in hospitals to induce childbirth by injecting hormones into mothers. The practice has become increasingly widespread in recent years, and this film asks if induction is desirable, necessary, and safe.
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Episode 3
The Unsafe Sea
Feb 10, 197560 min
This episode of Horizon examines the problems of ship safety in the English Channel.
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Episode 4
The Change of Life
Feb 17, 197560 min
Horizon investigates the symptoms of menopause and the various degrees in which it occurs.
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Episode 5
Project Fido
Feb 24, 197560 min
This episode of Horizon shows the peril to man of the ever increasing dog population in the western world.
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Episode 6
The Planets
Mar 10, 197560 min
By the end of 1974, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter had all been visited by spacecraft. For the first time scientists saw in sharp detail the continents, mountains, valleys and volcanoes of other worlds. Tonight's programme shows how these geological features give clues to the way the planets evolved; how they have helped scientists in their attempt to reach back 5,000 million years to understand the formation of the solar system itself.
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Episode 7
The Long, Long Walkabout
Apr 7, 197560 min
This report by Horizon covers an investigation by a group of Australian scientists that looks into the origins and history of the Australian Aborigines.
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Episode 8
The Overworked Miracle
Apr 14, 197560 min
This report by Horizon describes the resistance to antibiotics, fast growing in all countries, and the dangers it could mean for the future.
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Episode 9
Not the Cheapest, But the Best
Apr 21, 197560 min
Horizon investigates the life and work of the great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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Episode 10
A Spoonful of Roughage
Apr 28, 197560 min
Horizon explores the effect of fibre in diet on the diseases of western world.
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Episode 11
Brain Poison
May 5, 197560 min
Horizon presents an investigation into the effects on health of lead in the urban atmosphere.
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Episode 12
The Bulldog's Last Bark?
May 12, 197560 min
This is a Horizon report on the building of the British military deterrent from the first decision to make it in 1941 until the present state of lethargy.
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Episode 13
Benjamin
May 19, 197560 min
This episode of Horizon follows the progress of Benjamin Pile, born on 22 November, 1974, at Oxford in Britain.
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Episode 14
The McMaster Experiment
Jun 2, 197560 min
This report by Horizon covers an experiment at McMaster University Medical School, in Ontario, Canada.
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Episode 15
The Glazed Outlook
Jun 9, 197560 min
Horizon investigates the attempts by the University of Newcastle in England to define and create an ideal living and working environment.
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Episode 16
The Three Chord Trick
Jun 16, 197560 min
Horizon explores the psychology of music, as it explains why music has such a powerful emotive effect in every society.
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Episode 17
The Cleanest Place in the World
Jun 23, 197560 min
This report by Horizon brings you scientists that are using Antarctica as a giant natural lab to study who has polluted Earth most; man or nature.
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Episode 18
Strange Sleep
Jun 30, 197560 min
Horizon investigates the discovery of gaseous anaesthetic from 1840 until the early years of 20th century.
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Episode 19
The Greatest Advance Since the Wheel?
Jul 7, 197560 min
Horizon reports on the history of superconductivity, from discovery, to the present.
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Episode 20
How Do You Read?
Jul 14, 197560 min
In this documentary, Horizon reports on the reading process; how it works for the fluent, and how it should be taught.
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Episode 21
The Sickly Sea
Jul 21, 197560 min
This episode of Horizon describes the various aspects of the pollution problem of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Episode 22
Happy Catastrophe
Jul 28, 197560 min
In this Horizon episode, Rene Thom's mathematical discovery of the catastrophe theory is investigated.
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Episode 23
To Die, to Live - The Survivors of Hiroshima
Aug 4, 197560 min
This documentary by Horizon commemorates the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
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Episode 24
Cannabis
Aug 11, 197560 min
Horizon takes a look at the history of cannabis and the research on the effects of smoking marijuana.
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Episode 25
Meditation and the Mind
Aug 18, 197560 min
This is a report by Horizon on Transcendental Meditation, or TM, brought to the West by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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Episode 26
The Trobriand Experiment
Dec 29, 197560 min
This documentary by Horizon is about the Trobriand islanders, whose culture is based on the Kula, a communication system of giving and receiving.