Horizon Season 1965

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1965x01 Learning from Machines aired Jan 06, 1965

Horizon looks into the principles behind machines and investigates why they are so successful.

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1965x02 The Technique of Change aired Jan 20, 1965

Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of the most important research and development centers where more than 4000 scienti... read more

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1965x03 Star Gazers aired Feb 03, 1965

Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the universe and learn how stars are created.

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1965x04 Science and Art aired Feb 17, 1965

Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores artists attitudes towards science.

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1965x05 The Great Computer Scandal aired Mar 03, 1965

Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, Horizon looks at the H-Bomb Detectors and how British scientists have developed a... read more

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1965x06 Faster, Farther, Higher aired Mar 17, 1965

The episode was shot from a biplane taking off and flying over the CERN Nuclear Physics Laboratory in Switzerland. Colin Riach interviews Dr. Lipman from the... read more

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1965x07 Restless Genius aired Mar 31, 1965

A tribute by Professor E. N. da C. Andrade to Robert Hooke architect, astronomer, geologist, and meteorologist who discovered the cell, the unit of living t... read more

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1965x08 Other Side of the Pill aired Apr 14, 1965

Horizon considers the safety of 'The pill'.

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1965x09 The Big Smoke aired May 12, 1965

Nine years after the passing of the Clean Air Act, where do we stand? Scientists are gradually finding out why dirty air Is so harmful to ill persons with Dr... read more

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1965x10 The Long Slide aired May 26, 1965

When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water and begin to 'aquaplane.' Scientists are studying this fact which creates a rea... read more

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1965x11 Men and Sharks aired Jun 09, 1965

Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets with the eminent physiologist Sir Henry Dale as he celebrates his 90th birthday ... read more

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1965x12 The Sudden Light aired Jun 23, 1965

Horizon looks into the study of a total eclipse, and reports on a new machine and its potential to teach deaf children to speak.

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1965x13 Dr. Joseph Needham aired Jul 14, 1965

This episode of Horizon features Dr. Joseph Needham, an eminent scientist and humanist who is perhaps the greatest living authority on China.

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1965x14 Science Fiction: Science Fact? aired Jul 28, 1965

Is all science fiction mercly fantasy-or can it give valuable clues to the future? Also: Desmond Morris interviews naturalist George Schaller about his wor... read more

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1965x15 Certain of Uncertainty aired Aug 11, 1965

The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and George Thompson meet and discuss topic with John Charap at the... read more

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1965x16 Time Stood Still aired Aug 25, 1965

Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has won international recognition for his achievements in ultra-high-speed photog... read more

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1965x17 Fuel for the Future aired Sep 08, 1965

Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific books which he was about to sell.

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1965x18 Let Newton Be aired Sep 22, 1965

On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of his most ardent disciples, Prof. Julius Summer-Miller, comes from California to... read more

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1965x19 Special Senses aired Oct 10, 1965

Horizon investigates Dr. Gregory's viaduct experiment which involved looking at an object at night through the arches of a viaduct in order to test the effec... read more

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1965x20 An Affair of the Heart aired Oct 24, 1965

Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.

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1965x21 10,000 Tombs aired Nov 07, 1965

Horizon probes into the Etruscan tombs in Italy.

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1965x22 Toil, Sweat & Tears aired Nov 21, 1965

Horizon profiles the scientist, polymath, and Nobel prize winner Prof. Albert Szent-Gyorgi.

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1965x23 The Big Dishes and the Living Stream aired Dec 05, 1965

Horizon looks into radio telescopes.

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1965x24 Boys on Bubbles aired Dec 19, 1965

Professor Charles Vernon Boys gives a Christmas lecture on bubbles. Also: Problems and Puzzles - T. H. O'Beirne , a mathematician, challenges you to solve s... read more

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