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Horizon: Season 8

1971 1971
TV-PG

  • 1971-01-04T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 1d 8h (32 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

32 episodes

Season Premiere

1971-01-04T20:00:00Z

8x01 Wildlife - The Last Great Battle

Season Premiere

8x01 Wildlife - The Last Great Battle

  • 1971-01-04T20:00:00Z1h

In this episode, Horizon looks a the efforts of zoos to save animal species from extinction by breeding enough to ensure their survival in captivity

1971-01-18T20:00:00Z

8x02 Great Ormond Street

8x02 Great Ormond Street

  • 1971-01-18T20:00:00Z1h

In this episode, Horizon looks at the renowned British hospital for children, Great Ormond Street, and the Institute of Child Health.

Horizon explores the island of New Guinea and its cultural changes going on there.

1971-02-01T20:00:00Z

8x04 Rumors of War

8x04 Rumors of War

  • 1971-02-01T20:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon looks at the growing arsenal of nuclear weapons over the last 25 years and the effects it has on the arms race.

The first of a two-programme investigation in which Horizon and Man Alive have combined forces. This episode investigates the facts about drug abuse and experimental work undertaken in this area.

Kuru is a unique disease of the people of New Guinea. Horizon goes with Prof. E. J. Field to find out why.

Horizon interviews ecologists that claim that man is irrevocably destroying its habitat.

1971-03-15T20:00:00Z

8x08 What Kind of Doctor?

8x08 What Kind of Doctor?

  • 1971-03-15T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates medical student training at the St. Thomas hospital in London, England.

Horizon explores the causes, and looks for way to prevent car accidents

1971-04-05T20:00:00Z

8x10 The Wood

8x10 The Wood

  • 1971-04-05T20:00:00Z1h

This report by Horizon looks at the long term ecological study of the forest at Wytham Wood, Oxon, in England.

1971-04-12T20:00:00Z

8x11 The Measure of Man

8x11 The Measure of Man

  • 1971-04-12T20:00:00Z1h

In 1971, Horizon reviews the life and work of Prof. Hans Eysnck, the most controversial psychologists of the time.

This report by Horizon explores care for the aged, for both medical and welfare services in Britain.

1971-05-03T20:00:00Z

8x13 Darwin's Bulldog

8x13 Darwin's Bulldog

  • 1971-05-03T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on the famous protagonist of "The Origin of Species," Thomas Henry Huxley.

1971-05-10T20:00:00Z

8x14 The Secret

8x14 The Secret

  • 1971-05-10T20:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon examines how cells organize to become complex organs, and bodies.

At the moment, legal abortions in the UK are being performed at the rate of over 90,000 a year and it is considered that the number is likely to rise. But why are so many people not prepared to use contraceptives? Are the contraceptives themselves at fault or is it part of a deep-rooted attitude to sex? A drug is now being tested which makes it possible for a woman to procure her own abortion in the first few weeks of pregnancy.

1971-05-24T20:00:00Z

8x16 Tastes of Foods to Come

8x16 Tastes of Foods to Come

  • 1971-05-24T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on food technology now experimenting with meat substitutes.

Within 20 years vertical take-off airliners could be hovering over Hampstead and Dulwich before landing, one a minute, day and night, at a Thames-side V-port. Horizon looks at what could be one of the great environmental debates of the century to have, or not to have, aircraft flying in and out of city centres.

1971-06-07T20:00:00Z

8x18 A Case of Depression

8x18 A Case of Depression

  • 1971-06-07T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates how to treat depressive illneses.

1971-06-14T20:00:00Z

8x19 The Total War Machine

8x19 The Total War Machine

  • 1971-06-14T20:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon reports on the development of the aircraft bomber throughout periods of war.

1971-06-21T20:00:00Z

8x20 The Dinosaur Hunters

8x20 The Dinosaur Hunters

  • 1971-06-21T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores the field of palaeontology, the study of dinosaurs.

1971-09-27T20:00:00Z

8x21 Your Country Needs You?

8x21 Your Country Needs You?

  • 1971-09-27T20:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon looks at Britain's civil defense program, and to see if it is adequate in the event of a nuclear war.

1971-10-04T20:00:00Z

8x22 Rheumatism

8x22 Rheumatism

  • 1971-10-04T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates rheumatism, and looks at why this disease is under-researched.

Can new born babies solve complex problems? Horizon works with psychologists to see how they measure this capacity.

1971-10-18T20:00:00Z

8x24 One Liverpool or Two?

8x24 One Liverpool or Two?

  • 1971-10-18T20:00:00Z1h

Do city planners in Liverpool have unrealistic expectations? Horizon looks into the development and planning process of Liverpool, England.

This is a two part episode of Horizon. First, Horizon looks at the life of centenary Ernest Rutherford, followed by a report of the Cavendish Labratory in Cambridge, England.

1971-11-01T21:00:00Z

8x26 The Fierce People

8x26 The Fierce People

  • 1971-11-01T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores a primitive tribe of Yanomamo Indians living in southern Venezula.

1971-11-15T21:00:00Z

8x27 The Men Who Painted Caves

This episode of Horizon looks in the ancient cave paintings found in France.

1971-11-22T21:00:00Z

8x28 The Crab Nebula

8x28 The Crab Nebula

  • 1971-11-22T21:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon reports on how the Crab Nebula was discovered, and continuing observation of the space encounter.

1971-11-29T21:00:00Z

8x29 Can Venice Survive?

8x29 Can Venice Survive?

  • 1971-11-29T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on the continuing problem of the city of Venice, Italy sinking into the sea.

1971-12-06T21:00:00Z

8x30 Willingly to School?

8x30 Willingly to School?

  • 1971-12-06T21:00:00Z1h

This report by Horizon is about Prof. Hean Piaget and her child center education theory.

1971-12-20T21:00:00Z

8x31 The Periscope War

8x31 The Periscope War

  • 1971-12-20T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents the history of the submarines, from pre-World War I to today's nuclear powered submarines.

Season Finale

1971-12-27T21:00:00Z

8x32 Patently Absurd

Season Finale

8x32 Patently Absurd

  • 1971-12-27T21:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon investigates strange new inventions.

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