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Horizon: Season 18

1981 1981
TV-PG

  • 1981-01-05T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 1d 3h (27 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

27 episodes

Season Premiere

1981-01-05T21:00:00Z

18x01 Spend and Prosper

Season Premiere

18x01 Spend and Prosper

  • 1981-01-05T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.

1981-01-12T21:00:00Z

18x02 A Whole New Medicine

18x02 A Whole New Medicine

  • 1981-01-12T21:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.

1981-01-19T21:00:00Z

18x03 The Qualyub Project

18x03 The Qualyub Project

  • 1981-01-19T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.

Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.

1981-02-02T21:00:00Z

18x05 Living with Dying

18x05 Living with Dying

  • 1981-02-02T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.

In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.

Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.

1981-03-02T21:00:00Z

18x08 West of Bangalore

18x08 West of Bangalore

  • 1981-03-02T21:00:00Z1h

A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.

Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.

1981-03-16T21:00:00Z

18x10 Hello Universe!

18x10 Hello Universe!

  • 1981-03-16T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.

1981-03-23T21:00:00Z

18x11 Voices from Silent Hands

Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.

1981-03-30T20:00:00Z

18x12 Did Darwin Get It Wrong?

In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.

1981-04-06T20:00:00Z

18x13 East of Bombay

18x13 East of Bombay

  • 1981-04-06T20:00:00Z1h

This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are common killers in Indian communities. Also, a report on Salubai, one of these native health workers and her work at Kamkhed in Western India.

Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.

Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.

In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near where they live.

Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.

1981-10-12T20:00:00Z

18x18 Breaking in Children

18x18 Breaking in Children

  • 1981-10-12T20:00:00Z1h

In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.

1981-10-19T20:00:00Z

18x19 The Grid

18x19 The Grid

  • 1981-10-19T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierce competition of the French and Italian racings teams by finding ways around new rulings to make their cars first on the grid.

1981-10-26T21:00:00Z

18x20 Butterflies or Barley?

18x20 Butterflies or Barley?

  • 1981-10-26T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.

1981-11-02T21:00:00Z

18x21 Science for the People

18x21 Science for the People

  • 1981-11-02T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical processing plant from the UK and computers from the USA when they have a quarter of the world's scientists and still give science and research the highest priority.

1981-11-09T21:00:00Z

18x22 The Race to Ruin

18x22 The Race to Ruin

  • 1981-11-09T21:00:00Z1h

This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for the extensive space defense system to match the Russians based on a misconception of the USSR war effort from space?

1981-11-16T21:00:00Z

18x23 Death of the Dinosaurs

18x23 Death of the Dinosaurs

  • 1981-11-16T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.

Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965. In this documentary he talks about his motivations to be a scientist and a teacher of science.

1981-11-30T21:00:00Z

18x25 The Cornucopia

18x25 The Cornucopia

  • 1981-11-30T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies which leads to the creation of overproduction of agricultural products. Do they need to reform the policy?

1981-12-07T21:00:00Z

18x26 A Race Against Time

18x26 A Race Against Time

  • 1981-12-07T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first run.

Season Finale

1981-12-21T21:00:00Z

18x27 Painting by Numbers

Season Finale

18x27 Painting by Numbers

  • 1981-12-21T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It looks at the manipulation of 3-D images to paint, animate, design, and test scientific hypothesis.

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