Horizon Season 1990

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1990x01 Oil Spill aired Jan 08, 1990

After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, Horizon looks at tanker design and the technology used for dealing with major oil slicks.

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1990x02 Medicine 2000 aired Jan 15, 1990

Horizon reports on medical developments in Britain which could mean by the year 2000, health care will be very different.

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1990x03 Food Irradiation: Would You Buy It? aired Jan 22, 1990

Horizon examines the history of research into irradiated food.

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1990x04 From Earth to Miranda aired Jan 29, 1990

In this Horizon documentary, we look at how NASA launched the Voyager space probes to explore the planets of the outer solar system.

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1990x05 Encounter With Neptune aired Feb 05, 1990

This report by Horizon presents the Voyager space probe close up encounter with the planet Neptune.

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1990x06 Guess What's Coming to Dinner? aired Feb 12, 1990

Horizon looks at the potential implications of genetically engineering plants.

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1990x07 The First 14 Days aired Feb 19, 1990

Horizon brings you a documentary on embryology - the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms from the moment o... read more

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1990x08 The 10,000 Year Test aired Mar 05, 1990

Horizon reports on how America has chosen to bury all of its most lethal radioactive waste under Yucca mountain in the state of Nevada.

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1990x09 Hurricane! aired Mar 12, 1990

Horizon explores the inside of Hurricane Gilbert as it neared Jamaica on a direct course for the United States.

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1990x10 The Britannic Greenhouse aired Mar 19, 1990

Horizon investigates how British scientists have begun to experiment to predict the effects of a changing climate from Greenhouse gases.

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1990x11 Cold Fusion aired Mar 26, 1990

This story by Horizon investigates cold fusion

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1990x12 The Quake of '89 - The Final Warning? aired Apr 02, 1990

Horizon presents the real story of seismic neglect and the failure of the San Francisco city government to protect its citizens.

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1990x13 The Sharpest Shot of the Universe aired Apr 09, 1990

In this episode, Horizon looks at the Hubble space telescope, hailed as the greatest advance in astronomy since Galileo.

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1990x14 The Company of Ants and Bees aired Apr 23, 1990

What can we learn from insects? Professor James Gould explains on Horizon that the human society may be able to predict their own future based on the society... read more

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1990x15 The Intelligent Island aired Apr 30, 1990

This Horizon documentary looks at the radical transformations in the Singapore society as its technology extends into monitoring, logging, and linking up all... read more

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1990x16 Legacy of a Volcano aired May 14, 1990

Horizon looks at the area around Mt. St. Helens 10 years after the volcanic eruption that devastated more 500 square kilometres of forest land in just minutes.

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1990x17 Do Cows Make You Mad? aired May 21, 1990

This episode of Horizon is about BSE transmitted in cattle feed and causing the fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome in humans.

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1990x18 The Child Mothers aired Jun 04, 1990

Horizon investigates how teenage pregnancy is now posing massive health and social problems in many societies.

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1990x19 Signs of Life aired Jun 11, 1990

Horizon examines the possibility of scientists, either intentionally or unintentionally, creating living forms which could enjoy an independent existence, in... read more

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1990x20 AIDS: A Quest for a Cure aired Jun 25, 1990

Horizon investigates new breakthroughs in the scientific study, analysis, and reproduction of cells and their compounds, which may lead to the development of... read more

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