Horizon Season 1981

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1981x01 Spend and Prosper aired Jan 05, 1981

Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.

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1981x02 A Whole New Medicine aired Jan 12, 1981

This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.

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1981x03 The Qualyub Project aired Jan 19, 1981

Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.

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1981x04 No-One Will Take Me Seriously aired Jan 26, 1981

Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.

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1981x05 Living With Dying aired Feb 02, 1981

Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.

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1981x06 A is for Atom, B is for Bomb aired Feb 09, 1981

In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.

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1981x07 Who Will Deliver Your Baby? aired Feb 16, 1981

Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.

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1981x08 West of Bangalore aired Mar 02, 1981

A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.

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1981x09 Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts aired Mar 09, 1981

Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.

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1981x10 Hello Universe! aired Mar 16, 1981

Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.

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1981x11 Voices From Silent Hands aired Mar 23, 1981

Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.

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1981x12 Did Darwin Get It Wrong? aired Mar 30, 1981

In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.

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1981x13 East of Bombay aired Apr 06, 1981

This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. ... read more

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1981x14 Resolution on Saturn - The Rings aired Apr 11, 1981

Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.

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1981x15 Resolution on Saturn - The Moons aired Apr 13, 1981

Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter ... read more

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1981x16 Heads I Win, Tails You Lose aired Sep 28, 1981

In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near wher... read more

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1981x17 The Hunt for the Legion Killer aired Oct 05, 1981

Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.

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1981x18 Breaking in Children aired Oct 12, 1981

In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.

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1981x19 The Grid aired Oct 19, 1981

Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racin... read more

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1981x20 Butterflies or Barley? aired Oct 26, 1981

Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.

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1981x21 Science for the People aired Nov 02, 1981

Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might nee... read more

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1981x22 The Race to Ruin aired Nov 09, 1981

This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Ar... read more

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1981x23 Death of the Dinosaurs aired Nov 16, 1981

Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.

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1981x24 The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out aired Nov 23, 1981

Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynam... read more

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1981x25 The Cornucopia aired Nov 30, 1981

Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in wes... read more

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1981x26 The Race Against Time aired Dec 07, 1981

Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first run.

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1981x27 Painting by Numbers aired Dec 21, 1981

Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It looks at the mani... read more

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