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Horizon: Season 11

1974 1974
TV-PG

  • 1974-01-07T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 1d 9h (33 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

33 episodes

Season Premiere

1974-01-07T21:00:00Z

11x01 A Matter of Self-Defense

Season Premiere

11x01 A Matter of Self-Defense

  • 1974-01-07T21:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon explains how our body fights infections and cancers and brings us up-to-date on recent research in immunology.

This episode of Horizon is about various experiments on migratory birds and homing pigeons to try and discover how they navigate.

1974-01-21T21:00:00Z

11x03 Never Too Late to Learn

11x03 Never Too Late to Learn

  • 1974-01-21T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on the British Open University and how it operates.

1974-01-28T21:00:00Z

11x04 The Great Fish Hunt

11x04 The Great Fish Hunt

  • 1974-01-28T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates how Britain has hunted fish in the past and how improved fish catching techniques have severely reduced fish stocks.

1974-02-04T21:00:00Z

11x05 Pedal Power

11x05 Pedal Power

  • 1974-02-04T21:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon is about the history of the bicycle and the possibility of it being able to ease the traffic problems in Britain.

1974-02-11T21:00:00Z

11x06 The Writing on the Wall

11x06 The Writing on the Wall

  • 1974-02-11T21:00:00Z1h

In this episode, Horizon looks at connections between crime and poor housing design in the USA.

Horizon investigates reports of abuse of the Colorado river in the USA.

1974-03-04T21:00:00Z

11x08 The Future Goes Boom

11x08 The Future Goes Boom

  • 1974-03-04T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon examines the British Hudson Institute's methods and predictions for the future of economics.

In this Horizon episode, we look at attempts by scientists to solve the energy crisis of future by building nuclear fusion reactors.

1974-04-22T20:00:00Z

11x10 The First Ten Years

11x10 The First Ten Years

  • 1974-04-22T20:00:00Z1h

In this report, Prof. John Maynard Smith looks back at some of the subjects Horizon has presented since 1964.

Horizon looks back at the discovery and the development of anesthesia.

1974-05-06T20:00:00Z

11x12 The Hunting of the Quark

This Horizon episode is about the search for quarks, thought to be the substance of which electrons, protons, and neutrons are made of.

1974-05-13T20:00:00Z

11x13 A Noah's Ark for Europe

11x13 A Noah's Ark for Europe

  • 1974-05-13T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates captive animal breeding to prevent extinction of animal species in the wild.

Horizon reports on bridges in Britain...how safe are they?

1974-06-10T20:00:00Z

11x15 Search for Life

11x15 Search for Life

  • 1974-06-10T20:00:00Z1h

Documentary about the origins of life which attempts to find out what happened in the one billion years before fossil evidence begins.

1974-06-10T20:00:00Z

11x16 The Secrets of Sleep

11x16 The Secrets of Sleep

  • 1974-06-10T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the subject of sleep in Britain and the USA.

1974-06-24T20:00:00Z

11x17 Who Needs Skills?

11x17 Who Needs Skills?

  • 1974-06-24T20:00:00Z1h

In this episode of Horizon, you learn about transferring the basis of modern industry production from human skills to computer programmed machines.

1974-07-01T20:00:00Z

11x18 Hills of Promise

11x18 Hills of Promise

  • 1974-07-01T20:00:00Z1h

In this report, Horizon presents the state of hill farming in Wales.

This documentary of Horizon reports on the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 by Dr. Francis Crick and Prof. James Watson.

1974-07-15T20:00:00Z

11x20 The Immigrant Doctors

11x20 The Immigrant Doctors

  • 1974-07-15T20:00:00Z1h

In this episode, Horizon reports on the rising number of imigrant doctors working in the National Health System of Britain.

1974-07-22T20:00:00Z

11x21 Mines, Minerals and Men

11x21 Mines, Minerals and Men

  • 1974-07-22T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores the technological and economic reasons for the mining revival in Britain.

1974-07-29T20:00:00Z

11x22 What Price Steak?

11x22 What Price Steak?

  • 1974-07-29T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on the beef crisis and rising prices.

1974-08-05T20:00:00Z

11x23 Listen and Be Loyal

11x23 Listen and Be Loyal

  • 1974-08-05T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon brings you a report by Tom Harrison on anti-nazi propaganda in Britain during World War II.

1974-08-12T20:00:00Z

11x24 Adam or Eve?

11x24 Adam or Eve?

  • 1974-08-12T20:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon investigates the role that hormones play in the stages of mammalian sexual development.

1974-09-02T20:00:00Z

11x25 An Unholy Scramble

11x25 An Unholy Scramble

  • 1974-09-02T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates some of the risks and problems involved in bringing oil from the North Sea ashore.

1974-10-28T21:00:00Z

11x26 Do as You Are Told

11x26 Do as You Are Told

  • 1974-10-28T21:00:00Z1h

This report by Horizon explores how far people are prepared to suppress their own moral scruples in the face of necessity to obey authority.

Horizons reviews the scientific work of Americans in the field of research in communication with animals.

1974-11-11T21:00:00Z

11x28 The Other Way

11x28 The Other Way

  • 1974-11-11T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents Dr. Schumacher's theory that use of modern technology could make the working week a creative experience.

Sixty years ago a Dutch scientist discovered a phenomenon that overturned the electrical rule book. By cooling certain metals to incredibly low temperatures he found they could continue to carry an electric current for ever, even when the power supply was switched off. Today, developments of these metals - called superconductors-have led to trains that fly, magnets that could depollute rivers and machines that promise cheaper power.

1974-12-09T21:00:00Z

11x30 Joey

11x30 Joey

  • 1974-12-09T21:00:00Z1h

This story by Horizon reconstructs the true life story of Joey Deacon.

1974-12-16T21:00:00Z

11x31 The Neglected Harvest

11x31 The Neglected Harvest

  • 1974-12-16T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the developments and research in forestry which may now help to overcome shortage of timber.

This documentary by Horizon reports on the development of cinematographic special effects from 1890's to date.

Season Finale

1974-12-30T21:00:00Z

11x33 The Lysenko Affair

Season Finale

11x33 The Lysenko Affair

  • 1974-12-30T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon presents a dramatized documentary on the rise to power of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, a young Ukrainian agriculturalist.

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