Horizon Season 1966

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1966x01 Windows of the Soul aired Jan 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 ... read more

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1966x02 The Troubled Mind aired Jan 16, 1966

Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs.

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1966x03 A Man of Two Visions aired Jan 30, 1966

A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as an accomplished artist under the name of Alcopley.

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1966x04 A Theory of the Earth aired Feb 13, 1966

The eminent Canadian geologist. Professor Tuzo Wilson , explains his new ' Froth on the Broth ' theory of the structure of the earth to David Wilson before h... read more

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1966x05 Route 128 aired Feb 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... read more

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1966x06 The Beginning of Life aired Mar 13, 1966

Horizon looks at the life cycle during the development of a human embryo.

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1966x07 So You Want to be an Inventor? aired Mar 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 t... read more

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1966x08 Chance and Decay aired Apr 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 i... read more

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1966x09 Towers of Ilium aired Apr 24, 1966

The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the researches of CARL BLEGEN , the detailed results of whose work have only recently be... read more

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1966x10 Man in Space aired 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 an... read more

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1966x11 Destination Mars aired May 22, 1966

Detailed plans for an eighteen-month expedition in which a fleet of gigantic nuclear-powered spacecraft will land men on Mars are disclosed by Dr. Ernst Stuh... read more

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1966x12 Man Meets Duck aired Jun 05, 1966

At his Institute in Bavaria, Konrad Lorenz , the world-famous author of King Solomon's Ring and Man meets Dog, lives surrounded by his flocks of ducks and ge... read more

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1966x13 Where Must the Money Go? aired Jun 19, 1966

Today many sophisticated pieces of medical hardware are coming out of the laboratory and into the hospital, among them kidney machines, artificial hearts, an... read more

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1966x14 Genes in Action aired Jul 03, 1966

An eighteen-foot-high model of a ' chromosome puff ' has just been unveiled in Chicago. Some chromosomes ' puff' when they undergo intense genetic activity, ... read more

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1966x15 The Lonely Children aired Jul 17, 1966

They're called aloof, self-absorbed. They don'meet your eyes, won'be cuddled, can'play with other children. They are autistic children. This programme looks ... read more

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1966x16 Man of Science aired Jul 31, 1966

H. G. Wells is best known as a writer of science romances and a man who, with remarkable accuracy, predicted future technological developments from the tank ... read more

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1966x17 The Dolphins that Joined the Navy aired Sep 11, 1966

American Navy scientists are engaged in an intensive programme of research on the most intelligent and friendly of sea creatures, the dolphin. and in particu... read more

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1966x18 M.I.T's ABC aired Sep 25, 1966

One of the U.S.A.'s Meccas for scientists and engineers, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has started up courses in art because some of its profess... read more

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1966x19 Ten Years in the Antarctic aired Oct 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 w... read more

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1966x20 The Athlete aired Oct 24, 1966

Is there any limit to Improvements In human athletic performance? If so, what? Roger Bannister the first four-minute miler discusses his performances In ton... read more

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1966x21 From Peenemünde to the Moon aired Nov 07, 1966

If U.S. hopes are fulfilled the tremendous power of the Saturn IB rocket motor should, within a few weeks, lift a three-man spacecraft to orbit the earth. W... read more

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1966x22 Sex-Change? aired Nov 21, 1966

Sex-change frequently makes press headlines along with confusing reports of the physiology involved. The withdrawal of five gold-medal-winning women athletes... read more

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1966x23 The Structure of Life aired Dec 05, 1966

For their work on penicillin, the drug which saved so many lives in World War II, three men were awarded the Nobel Prize. Tonight's film looks at one of thes... read more

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1966x24 Hand Me My Sword, Humphrey aired Dec 25, 1966

It is Christmas Day in the house of Hastings. The time (the 1830s), the place (a suburban Victorian home). and the atmosphere (after the pudding with the chi... read more

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