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Horizon: Season 29

1992 1992
TV-PG

  • 1992-01-06T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 19h (19 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

19 episodes

Season Premiere

1992-01-06T21:00:00Z

29x01 The Shadow of Breast Cancer

Season Premiere

29x01 The Shadow of Breast Cancer

  • 1992-01-06T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents a new study that has highlighted the case of breast cancer.

1992-01-13T21:00:00Z

29x02 Pest Wars

29x02 Pest Wars

  • 1992-01-13T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon examines the advantages and disadvantages of biological pest control.

About the original discovery in 1985 of a third form of solid carbon, named Buckminsterfullerene after the architect who invented geodesic domes. The two scientists who discovered the material glimpsed it for brief seconds only in their lasers but neither they nor other scientists subsequently could make the substance last long enough in the laser to prove their theory. Then in 1990, a couple of physicists with an arc-welder in a bell-jar found they could make as much Buckminsterfullerene as they liked, and industrial applications opened up, with talk of new polymers, molecular ball-bearings, lubricants and super- conductors. Meanwhile, the original discoverers were turning back to the fundamental questions surrounding the discovery, such as how and why does it form; does it exist in space or is it the solution to one of the great mysteries of the universe.

Horizon explores the ecological track record of the North American Indians.

In this episode, Horizon look at attempts to persuade major respected organizations to do controlled trials on a synthetic malaria vaccine.

1992-02-17T21:00:00Z

29x06 The Black Sun

29x06 The Black Sun

  • 1992-02-17T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon follows five teams of scientists on the island of Mauna Kea in Hawaii as they wait for a solar eclipse.

1992-02-24T21:00:00Z

29x07 Hitler's Bomb

29x07 Hitler's Bomb

  • 1992-02-24T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates how in 1939, the Nazis led the race for the atomic bomb. Did scientific errors rob Hitler of a victory over the allies?

1992-03-02T21:00:00Z

29x08 An Expensive Theology

29x08 An Expensive Theology

  • 1992-03-02T21:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon looks at Britain's science spending and how it is falling behind it's competitors.

Horizon presents the life and work of mathematician Dr. Alan Turing.

1992-03-16T21:00:00Z

29x10 Hot Jam in the Doughnut

29x10 Hot Jam in the Doughnut

  • 1992-03-16T21:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon is about how nuclear fusion has been heralded as the power of the future with the promise of clean affordable energy.

1992-03-30T20:00:00Z

29x11 A Diet for a Lifetime

29x11 A Diet for a Lifetime

  • 1992-03-30T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents a story about what a women eats before and during pregnancy can determine the diseases her children may suffer from later in their life.

1992-04-06T20:00:00Z

29x12 Before Babel

29x12 Before Babel

  • 1992-04-06T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores the development of languages all over the world and attempts to reconstruct the first spoken words.

In this report, Horizon presents that scientific observations have shown that the landscape is constantly moving.

1992-04-27T20:00:00Z

29x14 Iceman

29x14 Iceman

  • 1992-04-27T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on the investigation into a well-preserved human corpse found frozen in an Alpine glacier.

1992-05-11T20:00:00Z

29x15 Taking the Credit

29x15 Taking the Credit

  • 1992-05-11T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the claims by rival American and French scientists as to who first discovered the HIV virus.

In this story, Horizon presents an investigation into the research to make livestock and poultry grow bigger and stronger.

1992-06-01T20:00:00Z

29x17 Dodging Doomsday

29x17 Dodging Doomsday

  • 1992-06-01T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon brings you this report to explain when animal communities exceed carrying capacities of their environments, they crash spectacularly. Will this also happen to humans?

1992-06-08T20:00:00Z

29x18 A Question of Sport...

29x18 A Question of Sport...

  • 1992-06-08T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents the current evidence of a massive sporting fraud in the former Eastern Germany that has now been uncovered. The evidence shows that the East German Olympic success through the 1980's was due in part to the sophisticated use of drugs, a practice which the East German state endorsed.

Season Finale

1992-06-15T20:00:00Z

29x19 Genes R Us

Season Finale

29x19 Genes R Us

  • 1992-06-15T20:00:00Z1h

This Horizon program looks at the stereotyped image of the scientist.

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