Horizon — Season 6

Aired 2 January 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 9 January 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 16 January 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 23 January 1969 • 60 min

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.

Aired 30 January 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 6 February 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 13 February 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 20 February 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 27 February 1969 • 60 min

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.

Aired 6 March 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 13 March 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 20 March 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 27 March 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 3 April 1969 • 60 min

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.

Aired 10 April 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 24 April 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 1 May 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 15 May 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 22 May 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 29 May 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 5 June 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 15 September 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 22 September 1969 • 60 min

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.

Aired 29 September 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 6 October 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 13 October 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 20 October 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 27 October 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 3 November 1969 • 60 min

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.

Aired 10 November 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 17 November 1969 • 60 min

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.

Aired 24 November 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 1 December 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 8 December 1969 • 60 min

Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.

Aired 15 December 1969 • 60 min

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

Aired 22 December 1969 • 60 min

Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.

Aired 29 December 1969 • 60 min

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