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Horizon: Season 15

1978 1978
TV-PG

  • 1978-01-06T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 1d (24 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

24 episodes

Season Premiere

1978-01-06T21:00:00Z

15x01 Living Machines

Season Premiere

15x01 Living Machines

  • 1978-01-06T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates how biologists and engineers are pooling their ideas to understand how nature's machines work.

1978-01-20T21:00:00Z

15x02 A Land for All Reasons

15x02 A Land for All Reasons

  • 1978-01-20T21:00:00Z1h

In this episode, Horizon examines the need for an objective approach to land management in Britain.

Horizon explores community and residential services available to the elderly in South Hampton, England.

1978-02-03T21:00:00Z

15x04 Zero G

15x04 Zero G

  • 1978-02-03T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents a report on zero gravity and the effects of weightlessness in spacecraft on humans.

1978-02-17T21:00:00Z

15x05 The Message in the Rocks

15x05 The Message in the Rocks

  • 1978-02-17T21:00:00Z1h

Develops the theory that four and a half thousand million years ago the earth was formed thanks to the explosion of a huge star which provided the rocks, the minerals and the radioactivity from which life developed. These theories are based partly on analysis of a meteorite which dropped near a village in Mexico at the beginning of the seventies.

1978-02-24T21:00:00Z

15x06 The Eddystone Lights

15x06 The Eddystone Lights

  • 1978-02-24T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on last three attempts to build a lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, near Plymouth.

Horizon presents a documentary on the development of the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation device, or more commonly know as the Laser.

1978-03-24T20:00:00Z

15x08 The New Breadline

15x08 The New Breadline

  • 1978-03-24T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the reasons for poverty in Britain today, now with seven million on at the poverty line.

1978-03-31T20:00:00Z

15x09 Now the Chips Are Down

15x09 Now the Chips Are Down

  • 1978-03-31T20:00:00Z1h

About the applications and implications for the future, particularly the effects on the labour market, of microprocessors.

1978-07-14T20:00:00Z

15x10 Explosions in the Mind

15x10 Explosions in the Mind

  • 1978-07-14T20:00:00Z1h

In this episode, Horizon explores the after effects of a stroke when there is a sudden stoppage of blood to the human brain.

1978-07-21T20:00:00Z

15x11 One Small Step

15x11 One Small Step

  • 1978-07-21T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the race to the moon between the USA and Russia and questions the motives behind the space race.

1978-07-28T20:00:00Z

15x12 The Tsetse Trap

15x12 The Tsetse Trap

  • 1978-07-28T20:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon is about the tsetse fly which rules most of Africa and why much of the fertile land can't in Africa can't be used because of the dangerous insect.

1978-08-04T20:00:00Z

15x13 A Whisper From Space

15x13 A Whisper From Space

  • 1978-08-04T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores the history of evidence used to support the Big Bang Theory of the creation of the universe.

1978-08-11T20:00:00Z

15x14 Prisoners of Hope

15x14 Prisoners of Hope

  • 1978-08-11T20:00:00Z1h

In this episode, Horizon explains some of the research in multiple sclerosis and how the lives of MS sufferers are affected.

1978-08-18T20:00:00Z

15x15 On a Different Track

15x15 On a Different Track

  • 1978-08-18T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents a brief history of the French railways and the policy behind their future direction.

1978-08-25T20:00:00Z

15x16 Careering into Science

15x16 Careering into Science

  • 1978-08-25T20:00:00Z1h

This documentary by Horizon is about six school children taking 'O' levels exams and inter science in Britain.

1978-09-01T20:00:00Z

15x17 Cashing in on the Ocean

15x17 Cashing in on the Ocean

  • 1978-09-01T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon looks at the implications of exploiting Manganese nodules which are scattered over the seabed.

1978-09-08T20:00:00Z

15x18 Bags of Life

15x18 Bags of Life

  • 1978-09-08T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the composition and structure of the membrane that surround individual cells.

1978-09-15T20:00:00Z

15x19 Innocent Slaughter?

15x19 Innocent Slaughter?

  • 1978-09-15T20:00:00Z1h

In this documentary, Horizon examines all sides of the Canadian Harpseal hunt issue and asks if it is really necessary.

1978-11-03T21:00:00Z

15x20 The Beersheva Experiment

Horizon explores an experimental medical school in Israel where students are trained primarily to care for people.

1978-11-10T21:00:00Z

15x21 Divers Do It Deeper

15x21 Divers Do It Deeper

  • 1978-11-10T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores the years of research that have enabled divers to go to greater and greater ocean depth.

1978-11-17T21:00:00Z

15x22 The Big Sleep

15x22 The Big Sleep

  • 1978-11-17T21:00:00Z1h

In this story, Horizon takes a look at the world's leading hibernation research projects.

1978-11-24T21:00:00Z

15x23 The Vital Spark

15x23 The Vital Spark

  • 1978-11-24T21:00:00Z1h

In this episode, Horizon examines the current developments in electrotherapy.

Season Finale

1978-12-29T21:00:00Z

15x24 The Red Deer of Rhum

Season Finale

15x24 The Red Deer of Rhum

  • 1978-12-29T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon takes a look at the changing behaviour of individual animals in a herd of red deer on the Isle of Rhum.

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