Episode
Horizon: Gilding the Lily
Overview
Horizon presents a documentary on the developments in botany resulting in new flowers and the mass production of plants from single cells.
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 10
- Episode
- Episode 24
- Air date
- 1973-10-08
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Gilding the Lily is Episode 24 in 1973 of Horizon. It aired on 1973-10-08. The runtime is 60 min.
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