Episode
Horizon: Dodging Doomsday
Overview
Horizon brings you this report to explain when animal communities exceed carrying capacities of their environments, they crash spectacularly. Will this also happen to humans?
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 29
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1992-06-01
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Dodging Doomsday is Episode 17 in 1992 of Horizon. It aired on 1992-06-01. The runtime is 60 min.
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