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Horizon: Season 9

1972 1972
TV-PG

  • 1972-01-03T21:00:00Z 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

1972-01-03T21:00:00Z

9x01 The Missing Link

Season Premiere

9x01 The Missing Link

  • 1972-01-03T21:00:00Z1h

In this episode of Horizon, you find out how feasible it is to build a 35 mile long tunnel between Britain and France.

Horizon explores the American Navajo indian tribe of New Mexico, in the United States.

1972-01-17T21:00:00Z

9x03 How Much Do You Smell?

9x03 How Much Do You Smell?

  • 1972-01-17T21:00:00Z1h

Why do humans have such a poor sense of smell as compared to animals? Horizon investigates why.

1972-01-31T21:00:00Z

9x04 The Parasite of Paradise

9x04 The Parasite of Paradise

  • 1972-01-31T21:00:00Z1h

This story by Horizon reports on Malaria in the country of Gambia, in West Africa.

Horizon investigates reports of strange phenomena and about what the scientific theory is about these phenomena.

Horizon explores if a doctor's treatment of the patient is always in the best interest of the patient.

1972-02-21T21:00:00Z

9x07 How They Sold Doomsday

9x07 How They Sold Doomsday

  • 1972-02-21T21:00:00Z1h

In this episode, Horizon looks the the ecological movement, and the resistance against the movement in Britain, and the USA.

1972-02-28T21:00:00Z

9x08 For Love or Money?

9x08 For Love or Money?

  • 1972-02-28T21:00:00Z1h

In this report by Horizon, the effect of boring jobs on industrial relations is looked at, along with work and job satisfaction.

1972-03-06T21:00:00Z

9x09 Whales, Dolphins and Men

9x09 Whales, Dolphins and Men

  • 1972-03-06T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon looks at the life of whales and dolphins, and how they interact with man.

1972-03-13T21:00:00Z

9x10 What Is Race?

9x10 What Is Race?

  • 1972-03-13T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon investigates the various conceptions of "race" that have arisen since the 17th century.

Horizon investigates the use of hydroelectric power in Africa, at Lake Kariba, Lake Volta, and Lake Nasser.

1972-03-27T20:00:00Z

9x12 Survival in the Sahara

9x12 Survival in the Sahara

  • 1972-03-27T20:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon follows the expedition of two German naturalists exploring the Northwestern desert of the Sahara in Africa.

1972-04-10T20:00:00Z

9x13 Mind Over Body

9x13 Mind Over Body

  • 1972-04-10T20:00:00Z1h

This story by Horizon is about American research into techniques for controlling bodily functions with the mind.

1972-04-17T20:00:00Z

9x14 Out of Volcanoes

9x14 Out of Volcanoes

  • 1972-04-17T20:00:00Z1h

In this report, Horizon looks at the various aspects of volcanoes and explaining the views of some vulcanologists.

Horizon presents a study of Thomas Alva Edison and his achievements as an inventor.

1972-05-08T20:00:00Z

9x16 Rail Crash

9x16 Rail Crash

  • 1972-05-08T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon reviews the history of train accidents and the new safety precautions to prevent them.

Horizon investigates the threat to the Snowdonia National Park in Britain, from mining companies.

1972-06-12T20:00:00Z

9x18 Sorry I Opened My Mouth

9x18 Sorry I Opened My Mouth

  • 1972-06-12T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on modern research in the prevention of tooth decay.

1972-07-03T20:00:00Z

9x19 The Way We Move

9x19 The Way We Move

  • 1972-07-03T20:00:00Z1h

How do muscles contract and how are they are controlled from the brain through nerve fibers are the subjects of this Horizon episode.

This episode of Horizon explores bacteria and other creatures that live on our skin and in our hair.

1972-07-24T20:00:00Z

9x21 Sex Can Be a Problem

9x21 Sex Can Be a Problem

  • 1972-07-24T20:00:00Z1h

In this episode by Horizon, we take a look at sexual problems, particularly for impotence, frigidity, and premature ejaculation.

1972-07-31T20:00:00Z

9x22 The Surgery of Violence

9x22 The Surgery of Violence

  • 1972-07-31T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon explores the development and techniques of brain surgery from the 1950's to present-day in Britain and the USA.

1972-10-12T20:00:00Z

9x23 Hospital, 1922

9x23 Hospital, 1922

  • 1972-10-12T20:00:00Z1h

Horizon reconstructs a day in the life of the old Charing Cross Hospital in Britain just fifty years ago.

This episode of Horizon looks the how the ice age physically shaped the British landscape.

This episode of Horizon illustrates the ideas of Prof. W.G. Hoskins on the development of the English landscape from Iron Age times to the present.

1972-11-02T21:00:00Z

9x26 Shadows of Bliss

9x26 Shadows of Bliss

  • 1972-11-02T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports that High Energy Physics shows a pattern of thought that challenges the very roots of commonplace belief.

1972-11-09T21:00:00Z

9x27 The Billion-Dollar Marsh

9x27 The Billion-Dollar Marsh

  • 1972-11-09T21:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon is about the east coast marshes of America, called the "Wetlands" and the effects of urban development on the wildlife.

Horizon investigates the research that is going into the ageing process to find out its causes and possible prevention.

This epidsode of Horizon reports on how a group of zoologists at Oxford Scientific Films in England makes films.

1972-11-30T21:00:00Z

9x30 Fire

9x30 Fire

  • 1972-11-30T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon documents fire prevention, and fire fighting.

1972-12-07T21:00:00Z

9x31 Alaskan Pipe-Dream

9x31 Alaskan Pipe-Dream

  • 1972-12-07T21:00:00Z1h

This episode of Horizon centers on the exploitation of oil in Alaska, and the effects of it on the Eskimoes and the local wildlife.

1972-12-21T21:00:00Z

9x32 Their Life in Your Hands

9x32 Their Life in Your Hands

  • 1972-12-21T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon reports on people suffering from kidney diseases and the current forms of treatment.

Season Finale

1972-12-28T21:00:00Z

9x33 Navigating Europe

Season Finale

9x33 Navigating Europe

  • 1972-12-28T21:00:00Z1h

Horizon documents how in Europe, they are using water canals for industrial transport, as an alternative to roads.

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