Horizon: Season 8

Tập 1 1971-01-04 | 60 min In this episode, Horizon looks a the efforts of zoos to save animal species from extinction by breeding enough to ensure their survival in captivity Tập 2 1971-01-18 | 60 min In this episode, Horizon looks at the renowned British hospital for children, Great Ormond Street, and the Institute of Child Health. Tập 3 1971-01-25 | 60 min Horizon explores the island of New Guinea and its cultural changes going on there. Tập 4 1971-02-01 | 60 min This episode of Horizon looks at the growing arsenal of nuclear weapons over the last 25 years and the effects it has on the arms race. Tập 5 1971-02-15 | 60 min The first of a two-programme investigation in which Horizon and Man Alive have combined forces. This episode investigates the facts about drug abuse and experimental work undertaken in this area. Tập 6 1971-02-22 | 60 min Kuru is a unique disease of the people of New Guinea. Horizon goes with Prof. E. J. Field to find out why. Tập 7 1971-03-08 | 60 min Horizon interviews ecologists that claim that man is irrevocably destroying its habitat. Tập 8 1971-03-15 | 60 min Horizon investigates medical student training at the St. Thomas hospital in London, England. Tập 9 1971-03-22 | 60 min Horizon explores the causes, and looks for way to prevent car accidents Tập 10 1971-04-05 | 60 min This report by Horizon looks at the long term ecological study of the forest at Wytham Wood, Oxon, in England. Tập 11 1971-04-12 | 60 min In 1971, Horizon reviews the life and work of Prof. Hans Eysnck, the most controversial psychologists of the time. Tập 12 1971-04-26 | 60 min This report by Horizon explores care for the aged, for both medical and welfare services in Britain. Tập 13 1971-05-03 | 60 min Horizon reports on the famous protagonist of "The Origin of Species," Thomas Henry Huxley. Tập 14 1971-05-10 | 60 min This episode of Horizon examines how cells organize to become complex organs, and bodies. Tập 15 1971-05-17 | 60 min At the moment, legal abortions in the UK are being performed at the rate of over 90,000 a year and it is considered that the number is likely to rise. But why are so many people not prepared to use contraceptives? Are the contraceptives themselves at fault or is it part of a deep-rooted attitude to sex? A drug is now being tested which makes it possible for a woman to procure her own abortion in the first few weeks of pregnancy. Tập 16 1971-05-24 | 60 min Horizon reports on food technology now experimenting with meat substitutes. Tập 17 1971-05-31 | 60 min Within 20 years vertical take-off airliners could be hovering over Hampstead and Dulwich before landing, one a minute, day and night, at a Thames-side V-port. Horizon looks at what could be one of the great environmental debates of the century to have, or not to have, aircraft flying in and out of city centres. Tập 18 1971-06-07 | 60 min Horizon investigates how to treat depressive illneses. Tập 19 1971-06-14 | 60 min This episode of Horizon reports on the development of the aircraft bomber throughout periods of war. Tập 20 1971-06-21 | 60 min Horizon explores the field of palaeontology, the study of dinosaurs. Tập 21 1971-09-27 | 60 min This episode of Horizon looks at Britain's civil defense program, and to see if it is adequate in the event of a nuclear war. Tập 22 1971-10-04 | 60 min Horizon investigates rheumatism, and looks at why this disease is under-researched. Tập 23 1971-10-11 | 60 min Can new born babies solve complex problems? Horizon works with psychologists to see how they measure this capacity. Tập 24 1971-10-18 | 60 min Do city planners in Liverpool have unrealistic expectations? Horizon looks into the development and planning process of Liverpool, England. Tập 25 1971-10-25 | 60 min This is a two part episode of Horizon. First, Horizon looks at the life of centenary Ernest Rutherford, followed by a report of the Cavendish Labratory in Cambridge, England. Tập 26 1971-11-01 | 60 min Horizon explores a primitive tribe of Yanomamo Indians living in southern Venezula. Tập 27 1971-11-15 | 60 min This episode of Horizon looks in the ancient cave paintings found in France. Tập 28 1971-11-22 | 60 min This episode of Horizon reports on how the Crab Nebula was discovered, and continuing observation of the space encounter. Tập 29 1971-11-29 | 60 min Horizon reports on the continuing problem of the city of Venice, Italy sinking into the sea. Tập 30 1971-12-06 | 60 min This report by Horizon is about Prof. Hean Piaget and her child center education theory. Tập 31 1971-12-20 | 60 min Horizon presents the history of the submarines, from pre-World War I to today's nuclear powered submarines. Tập 32 1971-12-27 | 60 min This episode of Horizon investigates strange new inventions.