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Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Episode 23 : The Wages of Science
December. 19,1966
The survival of Britain as an industrial power depends of science and on scientists. But are our scientists paid enough to attract them into the right jobs?
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Episode 22 : The Structure of Life
December. 05,1966
This program shows the work of Ernst Chain, one of the discoverers of antibiotics, now a Professor of Biochemistry at the Imperial College in London.
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Episode 21 : Sex-Change?
November. 21,1966
Doctors and psychologists talk about the problems inherent in the determination of sex.
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Episode 20 : From Peenemunde to the Moon
November. 07,1966
Christopher Chataway presents a program on the development of the rocket, first as a weapon, and then for the American space program.
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Episode 19 : The Athlete
October. 24,1966
Horizon investigates the stresses on athletes.
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Episode 18 : Ten Years in the Antarctic
October. 10,1966
Horizon looks at the scientific research being carried out in the Antarctic under the guidance the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) which was formed in 1856.
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Episode 17 : M.I.T.'s ABC / The Disturbed Child
September. 25,1966
Horizon reports on the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Many parents know that their child has a problem but do not have the necessary insight to deal with it. A psychiatrist uses drawings and paintings to reveal children's characters.
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Episode 16 : Man of Science / 'Nature' Tomorrow
July. 31,1966
This episode of Horizon reports on the famous science fiction writer, H. G. Wells.
An interview with John Maddox, the new editor of one of the world's most influential scientific journals, Nature, in which he discusses his ideas for bringing up-to-date the magazine's coverage of scientific events.
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Episode 15 : The Lonely Children
July. 17,1966
Horizon investigates the research conducted in England and America on the problems associated with autistic children.
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Episode 14 : Genes in Action / Scientists and War
July. 03,1966
Dr. John Gurdon talks about the action of the chromosomes puffing when they undergo intense genetic activity.
Sir Solly Zuckerman talks about his new book Scientists and War which outlines his views on the impact of science on affairs civil and military.
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Episode 13 : Where must the Money Go? / Phantoms Incorporated
June. 19,1966
Horizon explores substitute 'phantoms' which are used in radiation studies, manned spaceflight experiments and accident research that gives valuable information on the limits of tolerance on the human body.
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Episode 12 : Man meets Duck / The Picture Machines
June. 05,1966
Gordon Taylor meets with Konrad Lorenz, the inventor of ethology, and interviews him about his work on animal instinct and his theories about human instinct.
The world knows all about the uncanny mathematical abilities of the computer. But what happens when these machines learn to draw?
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Episode 11 : Destination Mars / Editors in Conference"
May. 22,1966
Horizon looks at the possibilities of landing a man on the planet Mars.
The Editors of two leading scientific magazines, Dennis Flanagan of the Scientific American, and Nigel Calder of the New Scientist, discuss with Gordon Rattray Taylor the problems of popularizing science and placing it in a social context.
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Episode 10 : Man in Space
May. 08,1966
Horizon travels to the spacecraft center in Houston, Texas to study astronauts in space and how they react to being in space and the stresses of launching and re-entry.
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Episode 9 : Towers of Ilium / The Exploding City
April. 24,1966
The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the researches of Carl Blegen.
By A.D. 2,000, more than half the world's population may be living in cities. The population of some of them may exceed 60 million. This is one of the main preoccupations of the World Institute of Ekistics.
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Episode 8 : Chance and Decay / Meteorite Mystery
April. 10,1966
Europe's heritage of pictures, statues, and buildings is being destroyed at a frightening rate by atmospheric pollution, but an American scientist has just invented a method of preserving limestone.
In 1908, a vast explosion shook the Tungus district of Siberia: was it due to the biggest meteorite ever to hit the earth, or something odder?
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Episode 7 : So you want to be an Inventor? / The Severed Hand
March. 27,1966
Horizon looks into inventors who struggle against exploding technology, the buying power of great industries and taxation problems to make their leaps into the unknown.
An account of a remarkable surgical operation recently performed in China.
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Episode 6 : The Beginning of Life / Science Friction
March. 13,1966
A remarkable Swedish film of the gradual development of the human embryo from fertilisation until birth.
One man's impression of what science has done for the modern world: an animated film by Stan Vanderbeek.
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Episode 5 : Route 128
February. 27,1966
North of Boston, on Route 128, a new industrial landscape based on science is developing. Here men of high intellectual qualifications are developing way-out products, including a helicopter powered by radio waves, a computer which teaches medical diagnosis, and a hair-raising way of testing driving conditions.
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Episode 4 : The Dolphins that Joined The Navy / A Theory of The Earth
February. 13,1966
Horizon looks at the research of dolphins being conducted at a United States naval base in Port Magu, California. The research concentrates on the dolphin's abilities of navigation.
The eminent Canadian geologist, Professor Tuzo Wilson, explains his new 'Froth on the Broth' theory of the structure of the earth to David Wilson.
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Episode 3 : A Man of Two Visions / The Scientist Applied
January. 30,1966
A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as an accomplished artist under the name of Alcopley.
For a country striving to raise its productivity, the supply of applied scientists is tremendously important. Professor S. A. Tobias, an engineer, and Lord Todd, ex-chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council, discuss the problems of educating them and their importance in society.
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Episode 2 : The Troubled Mind / Triple-A. S.
January. 16,1966
Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs.
The American equivalent of the British Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, met in Berkeley, California between Christmas and New Year.
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Episode 1 : Windows of the Soul / Elixir of Youth
January. 02,1966
Horizon follows experiments on the eyes being undertaken at the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. The purpose of the experiments are to discover if our eyes can tell us things we might prefer to keep secret.
In Romania, more than forty thousand people have been given Gerovital H3, in the belief that it will make them younger.
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