Horizon: 1986

Episode 1: Are You a Racist? 1986-01-06 | 60 min Horizon presents a documentary about how white racists and black victims of racism volunteered to spend time in an isolated house living and talking about their prejudices.

Episode 2: Genesis 1986-01-13 | 60 min This Horizon episode is about the discovery of a molecular key which may literally unlock the mystery of life for all creatures.

Episode 3: Bitter Cold 1986-01-20 | 60 min Horizon presents a documentary on scientists who take themselves to Antarctica in 1980 to act as physical and mental guinea pigs.

Episode 4: The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe 1986-01-27 | 60 min Horizon explores the myth about the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin.

Episode 5: Outbreak: The Microbe Masters the Mould 1986-02-03 | 60 min In this episode, Horizon explores the question of when antibiotics were first developed it seemed infectious disease might be eliminated, so what has gone wrong?

Episode 6: Science...Fiction? 1986-02-17 | 60 min Horizon investigates the truths of science and it's theories.

Episode 7: The Children of Eve 1986-02-24 | 60 min Horizon explores at the latest discoveries about just where modern man came from.

Episode 8: The New Face of Leprosy 1986-03-03 | 60 min This episode of Horizon documents leprosy in the USA and India with a focus on medical developments for it's cure and control.

Episode 9: Hi-Tech à la Française 1986-03-10 | 60 min Horizon investigates the remarkable technological transformation of France over the last 25 years.

Episode 10: In the Wake of HMS Sheffield 1986-03-17 | 60 min Will the new strategies and weapons introduced because of the Falklands war be a match for the next generation of weapons? Horizon presents this documentary to answer that question.

Episode 11: AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus 1986-03-24 | 60 min Horizon looks at the virus that causes AIDS and the research into vaccines and drugs being developed to counteract the devastating disease of the immune system.

Episode 12: The Case of the Frozen Addict 1986-04-07 | 60 min In this documentary, Horizon reports on how doctors in America found that addicts using designer drugs developed Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms.

Episode 13: Nice Guys Finish First 1986-04-14 | 60 min In the interview by Horizon, Richard Dawkins discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favours co-operative behaviour, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the prisoner's dilemma game.

Episode 14: The Men Who Bottled a Cow 1986-04-21 | 60 min This is an interesting Horizon presentation on decoys that look and smell like cows to the tsetse fly who carry a disease fatal to farm animals.

Episode 15: Twice Five Plus the Wings of a Bird 1986-04-28 | 60 min Horizon researches how we acquire mathematical abilities in the first place.

Episode 16: What Makes an Animal Smart? 1986-05-12 | 60 min This report by Horizon takes a look at the instinctive side of intelligence in animals that shows us that we owe more to instinct than we may care to think.

Episode 17: A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt 1986-05-19 | 60 min Horizon presents a simple, but effective, cure for diarrea in young children; sugar and salt.

Episode 18: Uranus Encounter 1986-05-26 | 60 min In this episode, Horizon brings you Voyager's encounter with Uranus and the mysteries that are being relayed back to the scientists.

Episode 19: Who Built Stonehenge? 1986-06-09 | 60 min Horizon presents an interview with Prof. C. Renfrew as he questions the accepted wisdom about the origins of Stonehenge in England.

Episode 21: Battered Baby: From Generation to Generation 1986-06-16 | 60 min This is the first part of a two-part series on battered children.

Episode 22: Battered Baby: Breaking the Chain 1986-06-23 | 60 min This is the second part of a two-part series on battered children.

Episode 23: Doctors to Be 1986-06-30 | 60 min In a unique project, Horizon follows a group of medical students into the next century.

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