Episode

Horizon: Man's Best Friend

Name: Horizon: Man's Best Friend
Released: 1968-01-30
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Michael Mosley, Paul Vaughan, Alice Roberts, Hannah Fry, Richard Feynman

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Overview

This episode covers interviews with surgeons and research workers discussing the need for animal experimentation in medical work.

Details

Series: Horizon
Season: Season 5
Episode: Episode 2
Air date: 1968-01-30
Runtime: 60 min

Episode context

Man's Best Friend is Episode 2 in 1968 of Horizon. It aired on 1968-01-30. The runtime is 60 min.

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Episode 1: An Ingenious Man - Sir H. John Baker 1968-01-02 | 60 min Horizon reports on Prof. Sir John Baker who is a distinguished British engineer, tracing his career beginning from his early work on airships.

Episode 3: Once a Junkie 1968-02-13 | 60 min In England addicts get their heroin, and often cocaine, on the National Health Service: our system has prevented the growth of a drug-based criminal world, but Americans say that our system only worked when we did not have a serious addiction problem. Now we do. Does our present system make it too easy for the casual drug experimenter to become a hard-core addict? Is there anything we can learn from the American situation?

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Episode 6: Man in Search of Himself 1968-03-26 | 60 min This episode presents the view by G. M. Carstairs, social psychiatrist, about the pleasures and problems of life in Britain in 1968.

Episode 7: Investigating Murder 1968-04-09 | 60 min Horizon looks into modern methods of crime investigation.

Episode 8: The Equation of Murder 1968-05-07 | 60 min Horizon follows reporter Paul Ferris as he examines the causes and motitives for murder.

Episode 9: The Lindemann Enigma 1968-09-12 | 60 min This is the story of the life and career of Winston Churchill's scientific advisor, Lord Cherwell, during World War II.

Episode 10: From Field to Factory 1968-09-19 | 60 min Horizon explores "factory farming" techniques for chickens and other livestock.

Episode 11: Comfort on Aging 1968-09-26 | 60 min In this episode, Dr. Alex Comfort looks at the scientific evidence for old age and the problems caused by ageing.

Episode 12: Experiments in War 1968-10-03 | 60 min Horizon investigates how science is used to enhance weapons of war, tactics, and strategy.

Episode 13: Medecine in Russia 1968-10-10 | 60 min In 1917, Russia had fewer than twenty doctors for every million of her people. Today, the figure is over 2,000: almost twice as many as in this country. The organisational changes that were necessary to build a Health Service in the country with the largest share of the earth's surface were vast. The resulting system is very different from ours.