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Horizon: Season 6

1969 1969
TV-PG

  • 1969-01-02T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 1d 13h (37 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

37 episodes

Season Premiere

1969-01-02T20:00:00Z

6x01 Inside Every Fat Man

Season Premiere

6x01 Inside Every Fat Man

  • 1969-01-02T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-01-09T20:00:00Z

6x02 If Only They Could Speak

6x02 If Only They Could Speak

  • 1969-01-09T20:00:00Z1h

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

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

1969-01-23T20:00:00Z

6x04 The Years of the Locust

6x04 The Years of the Locust

  • 1969-01-23T20:00:00Z1h

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.

1969-01-30T20:00:00Z

6x05 The Gifted Child

6x05 The Gifted Child

  • 1969-01-30T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-02-06T20:00:00Z

6x06 The Last of the Polymaths

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

1969-02-13T20:00:00Z

6x07 Music and the Mind

6x07 Music and the Mind

  • 1969-02-13T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-02-20T20:00:00Z

6x08 Report on V.D.

6x08 Report on V.D.

  • 1969-02-20T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-02-27T20:00:00Z

6x09 Extra-Sensory Perception

6x09 Extra-Sensory Perception

  • 1969-02-27T20:00:00Z1h

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.

1969-03-06T20:00:00Z

6x10 The Drift from Science

6x10 The Drift from Science

  • 1969-03-06T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-03-13T20:00:00Z

6x11 Powers of Persuasion

6x11 Powers of Persuasion

  • 1969-03-13T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-03-20T20:00:00Z

6x12 The View from Space

6x12 The View from Space

  • 1969-03-20T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-03-27T20:00:00Z

6x13 The Unborn Patient

6x13 The Unborn Patient

  • 1969-03-27T20:00:00Z1h

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

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.

1969-04-10T20:00:00Z

6x15 King Solomon's Garden

6x15 King Solomon's Garden

  • 1969-04-10T20:00:00Z1h

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

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

1969-05-01T20:00:00Z

6x17 Shark

6x17 Shark

  • 1969-05-01T20:00:00Z1h

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

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

1969-05-22T20:00:00Z

6x19 After Apollo

6x19 After Apollo

  • 1969-05-22T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-05-29T20:00:00Z

6x20 Discovery

6x20 Discovery

  • 1969-05-29T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-06-05T20:00:00Z

6x21 Machines and People

6x21 Machines and People

  • 1969-06-05T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-09-15T20:00:00Z

6x22 Science on Safari

6x22 Science on Safari

  • 1969-09-15T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-09-22T20:00:00Z

6x23 A True Madness

6x23 A True Madness

  • 1969-09-22T20:00:00Z1h

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.

1969-09-29T20:00:00Z

6x24 Problems of Pain

6x24 Problems of Pain

  • 1969-09-29T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-10-06T20:00:00Z

6x25 Four Fast Legs and a Nose

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

1969-10-13T20:00:00Z

6x26 Father of the Man

6x26 Father of the Man

  • 1969-10-13T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-10-20T20:00:00Z

6x27 Master of the Microscope

6x27 Master of the Microscope

  • 1969-10-20T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-10-27T20:00:00Z

6x28 C.E.R.N.

6x28 C.E.R.N.

  • 1969-10-27T20:00:00Z1h

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

1969-11-03T20:00:00Z

6x29 Snap, Crackle and Bang

6x29 Snap, Crackle and Bang

  • 1969-11-03T20:00:00Z1h

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.

1969-11-10T20:00:00Z

6x30 Cancer Now

6x30 Cancer Now

  • 1969-11-10T20:00:00Z1h

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

For some time now rhinos have been disturbing the workers in the Tanzanian sugar plantation and ripping open the plastic water pipes to get at the water. These incidents, and the hunting of the rhinos by helicopter, are typical of the increasing conflict between wildlife and man for land in East Africa.

1969-11-24T20:00:00Z

6x32 Fit to Live?

6x32 Fit to Live?

  • 1969-11-24T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.

1969-12-01T20:00:00Z

6x33 Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs

6x33 Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs

  • 1969-12-01T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.

1969-12-08T20:00:00Z

6x34 How Much Do You Drink?

6x34 How Much Do You Drink?

  • 1969-12-08T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.

1969-12-15T20:00:00Z

6x35 A Game of War

6x35 A Game of War

  • 1969-12-15T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.

1969-12-22T20:00:00Z

6x36 Bread

6x36 Bread

  • 1969-12-22T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.

Season Finale

1969-12-29T20:00:00Z

6x37 For the Safety of Mankind

Season Finale

6x37 For the Safety of Mankind

  • 1969-12-29T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.

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