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Horizon: Season 12

1975 1975
TV-PG

  • 1975-01-20T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 1d 1h 50m (26 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

26 episodes

Season Premiere

1975-01-20T21:00:00Z

12x01 The Killer Dust

Season Premiere

12x01 The Killer Dust

  • 1975-01-20T21:00:00Z1h

This investigative report by Horizon covers an investigation into the deaths of people who inhaled asbestos dust at Acre Mill, Yorkshire, England.

1975-01-27T21:00:00Z

12x02 A Time to Be Born

12x02 A Time to Be Born

  • 1975-01-27T21:00:00Z50m

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.

1975-02-10T21:00:00Z

12x03 The Unsafe Sea

12x03 The Unsafe Sea

  • 1975-02-10T21:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon examines the problems of ship safety in the English Channel.

1975-02-17T21:00:00Z

12x04 The Change of Life

12x04 The Change of Life

  • 1975-02-17T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the symptoms of menopause and the various degrees in which it occurs.

1975-02-24T21:00:00Z

12x05 Project Fido

12x05 Project Fido

  • 1975-02-24T21:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon shows the peril to man of the ever increasing dog population in the western world.

1975-03-10T21:00:00Z

12x06 The Planets

12x06 The Planets

  • 1975-03-10T21:00:00Z1h

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.

1975-04-07T20:00:00Z

12x07 The Long, Long Walkabout

This report by Horizon covers an investigation by a group of Australian scientists that looks into the origins and history of the Australian Aborigines.

1975-04-14T20:00:00Z

12x08 The Overworked Miracle

12x08 The Overworked Miracle

  • 1975-04-14T20:00:00Z1h

This report by Horizon describes the resistance to antibiotics, fast growing in all countries, and the dangers it could mean for the future.

Horizon investigates the life and work of the great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

1975-04-28T20:00:00Z

12x10 A Spoonful of Roughage

12x10 A Spoonful of Roughage

  • 1975-04-28T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores the effect of fibre in diet on the diseases of western world.

1975-05-05T20:00:00Z

12x11 Brain Poison

12x11 Brain Poison

  • 1975-05-05T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents an investigation into the effects on health of lead in the urban atmosphere.

1975-05-12T20:00:00Z

12x12 The Bulldog's Last Bark?

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.

1975-05-19T20:00:00Z

12x13 Benjamin

12x13 Benjamin

  • 1975-05-19T20:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon follows the progress of Benjamin Pile, born on 22 November, 1974, at Oxford in Britain.

1975-06-02T20:00:00Z

12x14 The McMaster Experiment

12x14 The McMaster Experiment

  • 1975-06-02T20:00:00Z1h

This report by Horizon covers an experiment at McMaster University Medical School, in Ontario, Canada.

1975-06-09T20:00:00Z

12x15 The Glazed Outlook

12x15 The Glazed Outlook

  • 1975-06-09T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the attempts by the University of Newcastle in England to define and create an ideal living and working environment.

1975-06-16T20:00:00Z

12x16 The Three Chord Trick

12x16 The Three Chord Trick

  • 1975-06-16T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores the psychology of music, as it explains why music has such a powerful emotive effect in every society.

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.

1975-06-30T20:00:00Z

12x18 Strange Sleep

12x18 Strange Sleep

  • 1975-06-30T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the discovery of gaseous anaesthetic from 1840 until the early years of 20th century.

Horizon reports on the history of superconductivity, from discovery, to the present.

1975-07-14T20:00:00Z

12x20 How Do You Read?

12x20 How Do You Read?

  • 1975-07-14T20:00:00Z1h

In this documentary, Horizon reports on the reading process; how it works for the fluent, and how it should be taught.

1975-07-21T20:00:00Z

12x21 The Sickly Sea

12x21 The Sickly Sea

  • 1975-07-21T20:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon describes the various aspects of the pollution problem of the Mediterranean Sea.

1975-07-28T20:00:00Z

12x22 Happy Catastrophe

12x22 Happy Catastrophe

  • 1975-07-28T20:00:00Z1h

In this Horizon episode, Rene Thom's mathematical discovery of the catastrophe theory is investigated.

This documentary by Horizon commemorates the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.

1975-08-11T20:00:00Z

12x24 Cannabis

12x24 Cannabis

  • 1975-08-11T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon takes a look at the history of cannabis and the research on the effects of smoking marijuana.

1975-08-18T20:00:00Z

12x25 Meditation and the Mind

12x25 Meditation and the Mind

  • 1975-08-18T20:00:00Z1h

This is a report by Horizon on Transcendental Meditation, or TM, brought to the West by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Season Finale

1975-12-29T21:00:00Z

12x26 The Trobriand Experiment

Season Finale

12x26 The Trobriand Experiment

  • 1975-12-29T21:00:00Z1h

This documentary by Horizon is about the Trobriand islanders, whose culture is based on the Kula, a communication system of giving and receiving.

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