Horizon

1985

1985 · 16 episodes · 16h 0m in all

Episodes

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   1. Colourful Notions

   7 Jan 1985 · 60 min

   Documentary about colour perception based on the theories of Dr. Edwin Land, which oppose the long-held three-receptor theory of colour vision

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   2. A World of Their Own

   14 Jan 1985 · 60 min

   Horizon takes a look at consultant psychiatrists.

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   3. Decoding Danebury

   21 Jan 1985 · 60 min

   Horizon looks at the way modern archaeologists extract information from a site dig.

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   4. A Mission to Heal

   28 Jan 1985 · 60 min

   This Horizon episode is about a hospital in the African country of Kenya where the medical staff tells of a new approach to health care among the Pokot tribe.

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   5. Mystery of the Left Hand

   4 Feb 1985 · 60 min

   In this episode, Horizon explores the characteristics of left-handed people.

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   6. The Theatre of War

   11 Feb 1985 · 60 min

   Horizon examines new military technology which will come to dominate the battlefields of the future.

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   7. The Careful Predator

   25 Feb 1985 · 60 min

   This episode of Horizon is about the controversial policy in African nation of Zimbabwe of encouraging villagers to allow wild animals back onto their land.

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   8. What Einstein Never Knew

   4 Mar 1985 · 60 min

   This documentary by Horizon attempts to explain the advances in physics in the search for the ultimate equation that explains the meaning of life, the universe, and everything else in existence.

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   9. Eurekaaargh!

   11 Mar 1985 · 60 min

   Horizon brings you a report by Robert Symes who offers ten golden guidelines on how to be a successful inventor.

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    10. Careering On

    18 Mar 1985 · 60 min

    This is a Horizon follow-up report on the careers of seven British teenagers studying Science 'O' levels back in 1978.

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    11. How to Film the Impossible

    25 Mar 1985 · 60 min

    This episode of Horizon looks at how the world's best special effects technicians create some of Hollywood's most spectacular film scenes.

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    12. The Food Allergy War

    1 Apr 1985 · 60 min

    Horizon investigates how food allergy has developed from the 1950's to the present.

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    13. The Goddess of the Earth

    15 Apr 1985 · 60 min

    Horizon examines a hypothesis that life itself manipulates the planet to enhance it's own survival.

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    14. IRAS - The Supercooled Eye

    22 Apr 1985 · 60 min

    This Horizon documentary examines the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) which has detected evidence of planetary systems around distant stars.

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    15. A Prize Discovery

    29 Apr 1985 · 60 min

    Horizon reports on the current medical treatment of Malaria and Leukemia.

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    16. The Wrong Stuff

    13 May 1985 · 60 min

    Eighty per cent of all crashes are caused by 'human error'. Finding out what that means in terms of human behaviour has been called the last great frontier in aviation safety.