Horizon — Season 8

Aired 4 January 1971 • 60 min

In this episode, Horizon looks a the efforts of zoos to save animal species from extinction by breeding enough to ensure their survival in captivity

Aired 18 January 1971 • 60 min

In this episode, Horizon looks at the renowned British hospital for children, Great Ormond Street, and the Institute of Child Health.

Aired 25 January 1971 • 60 min

Horizon explores the island of New Guinea and its cultural changes going on there.

Aired 1 February 1971 • 60 min

This episode of Horizon looks at the growing arsenal of nuclear weapons over the last 25 years and the effects it has on the arms race.

Aired 15 February 1971 • 60 min

The first of a two-programme investigation in which Horizon and Man Alive have combined forces. This episode investigates the facts about drug abuse and experimental work undertaken in this area.

Aired 22 February 1971 • 60 min

Kuru is a unique disease of the people of New Guinea. Horizon goes with Prof. E. J. Field to find out why.

Aired 8 March 1971 • 60 min

Horizon interviews ecologists that claim that man is irrevocably destroying its habitat.

Aired 15 March 1971 • 60 min

Horizon investigates medical student training at the St. Thomas hospital in London, England.

Aired 22 March 1971 • 60 min

Horizon explores the causes, and looks for way to prevent car accidents

Aired 5 April 1971 • 60 min

This report by Horizon looks at the long term ecological study of the forest at Wytham Wood, Oxon, in England.

Aired 12 April 1971 • 60 min

In 1971, Horizon reviews the life and work of Prof. Hans Eysnck, the most controversial psychologists of the time.

Aired 26 April 1971 • 60 min

This report by Horizon explores care for the aged, for both medical and welfare services in Britain.

Aired 3 May 1971 • 60 min

Horizon reports on the famous protagonist of "The Origin of Species," Thomas Henry Huxley.

Aired 10 May 1971 • 60 min

This episode of Horizon examines how cells organize to become complex organs, and bodies.

Aired 17 May 1971 • 60 min

At the moment, legal abortions in the UK are being performed at the rate of over 90,000 a year and it is considered that the number is likely to rise. But why are so many people not prepared to use contraceptives? Are the contraceptives themselves at fault or is it part of a deep-rooted attitude to sex? A drug is now being tested which makes it possible for a woman to procure her own abortion in the first few weeks of pregnancy.

Aired 24 May 1971 • 60 min

Horizon reports on food technology now experimenting with meat substitutes.

Aired 31 May 1971 • 60 min

Within 20 years vertical take-off airliners could be hovering over Hampstead and Dulwich before landing, one a minute, day and night, at a Thames-side V-port. Horizon looks at what could be one of the great environmental debates of the century to have, or not to have, aircraft flying in and out of city centres.

Aired 7 June 1971 • 60 min

Horizon investigates how to treat depressive illneses.

Aired 14 June 1971 • 60 min

This episode of Horizon reports on the development of the aircraft bomber throughout periods of war.

Aired 21 June 1971 • 60 min

Horizon explores the field of palaeontology, the study of dinosaurs.

Aired 27 September 1971 • 60 min

This episode of Horizon looks at Britain's civil defense program, and to see if it is adequate in the event of a nuclear war.

Aired 4 October 1971 • 60 min

Horizon investigates rheumatism, and looks at why this disease is under-researched.

Aired 11 October 1971 • 60 min

Can new born babies solve complex problems? Horizon works with psychologists to see how they measure this capacity.

Aired 18 October 1971 • 60 min

Do city planners in Liverpool have unrealistic expectations? Horizon looks into the development and planning process of Liverpool, England.

Aired 25 October 1971 • 60 min

This is a two part episode of Horizon. First, Horizon looks at the life of centenary Ernest Rutherford, followed by a report of the Cavendish Labratory in Cambridge, England.

Aired 1 November 1971 • 60 min

Horizon explores a primitive tribe of Yanomamo Indians living in southern Venezula.

Aired 15 November 1971 • 60 min

This episode of Horizon looks in the ancient cave paintings found in France.

Aired 22 November 1971 • 60 min

This episode of Horizon reports on how the Crab Nebula was discovered, and continuing observation of the space encounter.

Aired 29 November 1971 • 60 min

Horizon reports on the continuing problem of the city of Venice, Italy sinking into the sea.

Aired 6 December 1971 • 60 min

This report by Horizon is about Prof. Hean Piaget and her child center education theory.

Aired 20 December 1971 • 60 min

Horizon presents the history of the submarines, from pre-World War I to today's nuclear powered submarines.

Aired 27 December 1971 • 60 min

This episode of Horizon investigates strange new inventions.