Season
Horizon: 1976
Overview
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Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 13
- Air date
- 1976-01-05
- Episodes
- 30 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Transplant Experience
Horizon investigates heart transplant research and techniques perfected and currently used by Dr. Norman Shumway in Britain.
Episode 2: Intimate Strangers
This episode of Horizon is about symbiosis - the close association between two or more species for their mutual benefit.
Episode 3: A Fair Share of What Little We Have
Horizon reports on the country of Tanzania, a country that spends only one dollar per person on health services, and more than half of all children born there die before the age of five.
Episode 4: The Incredible Machine
This episode of Horizon explores what actually happens inside our bodies using new optical techniques.
Episode 5: King Coal Revived
Horizon examines the projected expansion of the coal mining industry.
Episode 6: A Question of Trust
In this episode of Horizon, we look at the need for confidence in the doctor to patient relationship.
Episode 7: The Case of the Bermuda Triangle
Horizon investigates the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.
Episode 8: The Lords of the Labyrinth
Horizon traces back the origins and development of the pre-Incan Chimu civilization of Peru.
Episode 9: Inside the Shark
This documentary by Horizon takes a look at the shark, the supreme predator of the sea.
Episode 10: The Chemical Dream
Horizon reports on enzymes and the way they are being put on work in the industry and medicine fields.
Episode 11: The Edelin Affair
This is a Horizon reconstruction of the trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin who was arrested after performing an abortion in 1973.
Episode 12: The World of Margaret Mead
This Horizon reports is about Margaret Mead, who at age 74, is one of America's most influential social scientists.
Episode 13: The Pathway from Madness
Horizon investigates the developments in and the treatment of schizophrenia.
Episode 14: Geronimo's Children
This report by Horizon investigates the aggressive and oppressive history of the Mescalero and Chiricuhua Apache Indians of New Mexico in the USA.
Episode 15: The Vision of the Blind
This Horizon documentary investigates the ways that the blind and partially blind are aided.
Episode 16: A Lesson for Teachers
Horizon explores the comparative research study into progressive versus formal primary school teaching in the UK.
Episode 17: Why Did Stuart Die?
This episode of Horizon delves in the research into the causes for, and the methods of eradicating 'cot deaths' in Britain.
Episode 18: The Children of Peru
Horizon looks at food production in Peru today.
Episode 19: Dying
This is a Horizon documentary on how a widow faces the last day of her husband's life and the story of three other people who know they only have a short time to live.
Episode 20: A Home Like Ours... A Story of Four Children
Horizon investigates a local authority residential home in Wandsworth, Britain, for emotionally disturbed children.
Episode 21: What's Wrong with the Sun?
In the episode, Horizon explores the history of man's understanding of the sun's structure and observations in recent years.
Episode 22: The Bull's Eye War
Horizon looks at today's precision guided weapons.
Episode 23: The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs
Horizon makes an investigation into claims by a group of scientists who theorize that dinosaurs were not actaully cold-blooded reptiles, but hot-blooded, like mammals.
Episode 24: Billion Dollar Bubble
This is an investigative report by Horizon that shows how the Equity Funding Corp. of America produced two billion dollars worth of phoney insurance.
Episode 25: The Selfish Gene
This Horizon documentary explores animal behavior. Animals do not act for the good of their own species, rather for the preservation of their own genes.
Episode 26: A Child of Our Own
This episode of Horizon is about infertility and the state of British scientific research in this area.
Episode 27: Secrets of a Coral Island
Horizon reports on Pacific Ocean fishermen who are famous for their extraordinary fishing skills. They catch fish with a kite and a tassel of spiders webs.
Episode 28: The Long Valley
This is a Horizon documentary about six people who have each lost someone very close, as they describe their progress through grief.
Episode 29: Half-Way to 1984
Horizon looks at new developments in computer technology that have made mass surveillance possible, and also its political misuse.
Episode 30: The Mystery of King Arthur and His Round Table
This Horizon episode is about the actual King Arthur's Round Table, which hangs in the Hall of Winchester Castle, Hants, Britain.