1969

1. Inside Every Fat Man

Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.

1969-01-02 • 60 min

2. If Only They Could Speak

A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.

1969-01-09 • 60 min

3. The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye

Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.

1969-01-16 • 60 min

4. The Years of the Locust

In this episode, Horizon reports on how in the last 2 years, the desert locust has been breeding in Southern Arabia by the Red Sea.

1969-01-23 • 60 min

5. The Gifted Child

Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.

1969-01-30 • 60 min

6. The Last of the Polymaths

This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.

1969-02-06 • 60 min

7. Music and the Mind

Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.

1969-02-13 • 60 min

8. Report on V.D.

This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.

1969-02-20 • 60 min

9. Extra-Sensory Perception

In scientific circles extra-sensory perception is a subject which has never failed to arouse controversy and skepticism. Cecil King, having spent a lifetime in Fleet Street, discusses, with due caution, a subject which he believes might be of primary importance to scientists in the coming century.

1969-02-27 • 60 min

10. The Drift from Science

This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.

1969-03-06 • 60 min

11. Powers of Persuasion

This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.

1969-03-13 • 60 min

12. The View from Space

Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.

1969-03-20 • 60 min

13. The Unborn Patient

Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.

1969-03-27 • 60 min

14. The Physicist in the Kitchen

Nicholas Kurti, Professor of Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, specializes in the field of low temperature science. He is acknowledged among his friends as an expert in the kitchen.

1969-04-03 • 60 min

15. King Solomon's Garden

This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.

1969-04-10 • 60 min

16. Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow

Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.

1969-04-24 • 60 min

17. Shark

In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.

1969-05-01 • 60 min

18. Technology and Self-Determination

Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.

1969-05-15 • 60 min

19. After Apollo

The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.

1969-05-22 • 60 min

20. Discovery

Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.

1969-05-29 • 60 min

21. Machines and People

The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.

1969-06-05 • 60 min

22. Science on Safari

The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.

1969-09-15 • 60 min

23. A True Madness

Schizophrenia is an unsolved mystery of modern medicine. Horizon looks at some of the possible explanations and their relevance not only to schizophrenics but to the mystery of the human mind.

1969-09-22 • 60 min

24. Problems of Pain

In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.

1969-09-29 • 60 min

25. Four Fast Legs and a Nose

Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.

1969-10-06 • 60 min

26. Father of the Man

Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.

1969-10-13 • 60 min

27. Master of the Microscope

In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.

1969-10-20 • 60 min

28. C.E.R.N.

Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.

1969-10-27 • 60 min

29. Snap, Crackle and Bang

The props for this programme are pistols, muskets and, above all, explosives. For 30 years now these are what Colonel Brian Shaw, marksman and lecturer in chemistry, has been using in his now famous lecture on explosives. He gave it once again for Horizon before an invited audience at University College, London.

1969-11-03 • 60 min

30. Cancer Now

A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.

1969-11-10 • 60 min

31. There's a Rhino in My Sugar

For some time now rhinos have been disturbing the workers in the Tanzanian sugar plantation and ripping open the plastic water pipes to get at the water. These incidents, and the hunting of the rhinos by helicopter, are typical of the increasing conflict between wildlife and man for land in East Africa.

1969-11-17 • 60 min

32. Fit to Live?

Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.

1969-11-24 • 60 min

33. Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs

Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.

1969-12-01 • 60 min

34. How Much Do You Drink?

Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.

1969-12-08 • 60 min

35. A Game of War

Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.

1969-12-15 • 60 min

36. Bread

Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.

1969-12-22 • 60 min

37. For the Safety of Mankind

Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.

1969-12-29 • 60 min