About this season
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Episodes (16)
1. Colourful Notions
Aired 7 January 1985 • 60 min
Documentary about colour perception based on the theories of Dr. Edwin Land, which oppose the long-held three-receptor theory of colour vision
2. A World of Their Own
Aired 14 January 1985 • 60 min
Horizon takes a look at consultant psychiatrists.
3. Decoding Danebury
Aired 21 January 1985 • 60 min
Horizon looks at the way modern archaeologists extract information from a site dig.
4. A Mission to Heal
Aired 28 January 1985 • 60 min
This Horizon episode is about a hospital in the African country of Kenya where the medical staff tells of a new approach to health care among the Pokot tribe.
5. Mystery of the Left Hand
Aired 4 February 1985 • 60 min
In this episode, Horizon explores the characteristics of left-handed people.
6. The Theatre of War
Aired 11 February 1985 • 60 min
Horizon examines new military technology which will come to dominate the battlefields of the future.
7. The Careful Predator
Aired 25 February 1985 • 60 min
This episode of Horizon is about the controversial policy in African nation of Zimbabwe of encouraging villagers to allow wild animals back onto their land.
8. What Einstein Never Knew
Aired 4 March 1985 • 60 min
This documentary by Horizon attempts to explain the advances in physics in the search for the ultimate equation that explains the meaning of life, the universe, and everything else in existence.
9. Eurekaaargh!
Aired 11 March 1985 • 60 min
Horizon brings you a report by Robert Symes who offers ten golden guidelines on how to be a successful inventor.
10. Careering On
Aired 18 March 1985 • 60 min
This is a Horizon follow-up report on the careers of seven British teenagers studying Science 'O' levels back in 1978.
11. How to Film the Impossible
Aired 25 March 1985 • 60 min
This episode of Horizon looks at how the world's best special effects technicians create some of Hollywood's most spectacular film scenes.
12. The Food Allergy War
Aired 1 April 1985 • 60 min
Horizon investigates how food allergy has developed from the 1950's to the present.
13. The Goddess of the Earth
Aired 15 April 1985 • 60 min
Horizon examines a hypothesis that life itself manipulates the planet to enhance it's own survival.
14. IRAS - The Supercooled Eye
Aired 22 April 1985 • 60 min
This Horizon documentary examines the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) which has detected evidence of planetary systems around distant stars.
15. A Prize Discovery
Aired 29 April 1985 • 60 min
Horizon reports on the current medical treatment of Malaria and Leukemia.
16. The Wrong Stuff
Aired 13 May 1985 • 60 min
Eighty per cent of all crashes are caused by 'human error'. Finding out what that means in terms of human behaviour has been called the last great frontier in aviation safety.