1969

E1. Inside Every Fat Man

Jan 2, 1969 · 60m

Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.

E2. If Only They Could Speak

Jan 9, 1969 · 60m

A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.

E3. The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye

Jan 16, 1969 · 60m

Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.

E4. The Years of the Locust

Jan 23, 1969 · 60m

In this episode, Horizon reports on how in the last 2 years, the desert locust has been breeding in Southern Arabia by the Red Sea.

E5. The Gifted Child

Jan 30, 1969 · 60m

Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.

E6. The Last of the Polymaths

Feb 6, 1969 · 60m

This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.

E7. Music and the Mind

Feb 13, 1969 · 60m

Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.

E8. Report on V.D.

Feb 20, 1969 · 60m

This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.

E9. Extra-Sensory Perception

Feb 27, 1969 · 60m

In 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.

E10. The Drift from Science

Mar 6, 1969 · 60m

This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.

E11. Powers of Persuasion

Mar 13, 1969 · 60m

This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.

E12. The View from Space

Mar 20, 1969 · 60m

Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.

E13. The Unborn Patient

Mar 27, 1969 · 60m

Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.

E14. The Physicist in the Kitchen

Apr 3, 1969 · 60m

Nicholas 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.

E15. King Solomon's Garden

Apr 10, 1969 · 60m

This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.

E16. Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow

Apr 24, 1969 · 60m

Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.

E17. Shark

May 1, 1969 · 60m

In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.

E18. Technology and Self-Determination

May 15, 1969 · 60m

Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.

E19. After Apollo

May 22, 1969 · 60m

The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.

E20. Discovery

May 29, 1969 · 60m

Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.

E21. Machines and People

Jun 5, 1969 · 60m

The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.

E22. Science on Safari

Sep 15, 1969 · 60m

The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.

E23. A True Madness

Sep 22, 1969 · 60m

Schizophrenia 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.

E24. Problems of Pain

Sep 29, 1969 · 60m

In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.

E25. Four Fast Legs and a Nose

Oct 6, 1969 · 60m

Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.

E26. Father of the Man

Oct 13, 1969 · 60m

Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.

E27. Master of the Microscope

Oct 20, 1969 · 60m

In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.

E28. C.E.R.N.

Oct 27, 1969 · 60m

Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.

E29. Snap, Crackle and Bang

Nov 3, 1969 · 60m

The props for this programme are pistols, muskets and, above all, explosives. For 30 years now these are what Colonel Brian Shaw, marksman and lecturer in chemistry, has been using in his now famous lecture on explosives. He gave it once again for Horizon before an invited audience at University College, London.

E30. Cancer Now

Nov 10, 1969 · 60m

A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.