Horizon — Season 15

Aired 6 January 1978 • 60 min

Horizon investigates how biologists and engineers are pooling their ideas to understand how nature's machines work.

Aired 20 January 1978 • 60 min

In this episode, Horizon examines the need for an objective approach to land management in Britain.

Aired 27 January 1978 • 60 min

Horizon explores community and residential services available to the elderly in South Hampton, England.

Aired 3 February 1978 • 60 min

Horizon presents a report on zero gravity and the effects of weightlessness in spacecraft on humans.

Aired 17 February 1978 • 60 min

Develops the theory that four and a half thousand million years ago the earth was formed thanks to the explosion of a huge star which provided the rocks, the minerals and the radioactivity from which life developed. These theories are based partly on analysis of a meteorite which dropped near a village in Mexico at the beginning of the seventies.

Aired 24 February 1978 • 60 min

Horizon reports on last three attempts to build a lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, near Plymouth.

Aired 10 March 1978 • 60 min

Horizon presents a documentary on the development of the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation device, or more commonly know as the Laser.

Aired 24 March 1978 • 60 min

Horizon investigates the reasons for poverty in Britain today, now with seven million on at the poverty line.

Aired 31 March 1978 • 60 min

About the applications and implications for the future, particularly the effects on the labour market, of microprocessors.

Aired 14 July 1978 • 60 min

In this episode, Horizon explores the after effects of a stroke when there is a sudden stoppage of blood to the human brain.

Aired 21 July 1978 • 60 min

Horizon investigates the race to the moon between the USA and Russia and questions the motives behind the space race.

Aired 28 July 1978 • 60 min

This episode of Horizon is about the tsetse fly which rules most of Africa and why much of the fertile land can't in Africa can't be used because of the dangerous insect.

Aired 4 August 1978 • 60 min

Horizon explores the history of evidence used to support the Big Bang Theory of the creation of the universe.

Aired 11 August 1978 • 60 min

In this episode, Horizon explains some of the research in multiple sclerosis and how the lives of MS sufferers are affected.

Aired 18 August 1978 • 60 min

Horizon presents a brief history of the French railways and the policy behind their future direction.

Aired 25 August 1978 • 60 min

This documentary by Horizon is about six school children taking 'O' levels exams and inter science in Britain.

Aired 1 September 1978 • 60 min

Horizon looks at the implications of exploiting Manganese nodules which are scattered over the seabed.

Aired 8 September 1978 • 60 min

Horizon investigates the composition and structure of the membrane that surround individual cells.

Aired 15 September 1978 • 60 min

In this documentary, Horizon examines all sides of the Canadian Harpseal hunt issue and asks if it is really necessary.

Aired 3 November 1978 • 60 min

Horizon explores an experimental medical school in Israel where students are trained primarily to care for people.

Aired 10 November 1978 • 60 min

Horizon explores the years of research that have enabled divers to go to greater and greater ocean depth.

Aired 17 November 1978 • 60 min

In this story, Horizon takes a look at the world's leading hibernation research projects.

Aired 24 November 1978 • 60 min

In this episode, Horizon examines the current developments in electrotherapy.

Aired 29 December 1978 • 60 min

Horizon takes a look at the changing behaviour of individual animals in a herd of red deer on the Isle of Rhum.