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Season 1966
1966x1
Windows of the Soul
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Jan 02, 1966
Horizon follows experiments on the eyes being undertaken at the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. The purpose of the experiments are to discover if our eyes can tell .. show full overview
1966x2
The Troubled Mind
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Jan 16, 1966
Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs.
1966x3
A Man of Two Visions
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Jan 30, 1966
A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as an accomplished artist under the name of Alcopley.
1966x4
A Theory of the Earth
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Feb 13, 1966
The eminent Canadian geologist. Professor Tuzo Wilson , explains his new ' Froth on the Broth ' theory of the structure of the earth to David Wilson before his recent lecture to the Royal Geological Society
1966x5
Route 128
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Feb 27, 1966
North of Boston, on Route 128, a new industrial landscape based on science is developing. Here men of high intellectual qualifications are developing way-out products, including a .. show full overview
1966x6
The Beginning of Life
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Mar 13, 1966
Horizon looks at the life cycle during the development of a human embryo.
1966x7
So You Want to be an Inventor?
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Mar 27, 1966
Horizon looks into inventors who struggle against exploding technology, the buying power of great industries and taxation problems to make their leaps into the unknown.
1966x8
Chance and Decay
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Apr 10, 1966
Europe's heritage of pictures, statues. and buildings is being destroyed at a frightening rate by atmospheric pollution, but an American scientist has just invented a method of .. show full overview
1966x9
Towers of Ilium
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Apr 24, 1966
The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the researches of CARL BLEGEN , the detailed results of whose work have only recently become available. Also: The .. show full overview
1966x10
Man in Space
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May 08, 1966
Horizon travels to the spacecraft center in Houston, Texas to study astronauts in space and how they react to being in space and the stresses of launching and re-entry.
1966x11
Destination Mars
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May 22, 1966
Detailed plans for an eighteen-month expedition in which a fleet of gigantic nuclear-powered spacecraft will land men on Mars are disclosed by Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger of N.A.S.A., who .. show full overview
1966x12
Man Meets Duck
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Jun 05, 1966
At his Institute in Bavaria, Konrad Lorenz , the world-famous author of King Solomon's Ring and Man meets Dog, lives surrounded by his flocks of ducks and geese. He is studying these .. show full overview
1966x13
Where Must the Money Go?
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Jun 19, 1966
Today many sophisticated pieces of medical hardware are coming out of the laboratory and into the hospital, among them kidney machines, artificial hearts, and monitoring devices for .. show full overview
1966x14
Genes in Action
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Jul 03, 1966
An eighteen-foot-high model of a ' chromosome puff ' has just been unveiled in Chicago. Some chromosomes ' puff' when they undergo intense genetic activity, and this model is based on .. show full overview
1966x15
The Lonely Children
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Jul 17, 1966
They're called aloof, self-absorbed. They don'meet your eyes, won'be cuddled, can'play with other children. They are autistic children. This programme looks at this heart-rending .. show full overview
1966x16
Man of Science
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Jul 31, 1966
H. G. Wells is best known as a writer of science romances and a man who, with remarkable accuracy, predicted future technological developments from the tank to space-shots. Behind the .. show full overview
1966x17
The Dolphins that Joined the Navy
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Sep 11, 1966
American Navy scientists are engaged in an intensive programme of research on the most intelligent and friendly of sea creatures, the dolphin. and in particular on its almost uncanny powers of navigation.
1966x18
M.I.T's ABC
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Sep 25, 1966
One of the U.S.A.'s Meccas for scientists and engineers, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has started up courses in art because some of its professors feel ' most students .. show full overview
1966x19
Ten Years in the Antarctic
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Oct 10, 1966
Horizon looks at the scientific research being carried out in the Antarctic under the guidance the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) which was formed in 1856.
1966x20
The Athlete
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Oct 24, 1966
Is there any limit to Improvements In human athletic performance? If so, what? Roger Bannister the first four-minute miler discusses his performances In tonight's programme with physiologists and psychiatrists who make their predictions
1966x21
From Peenemünde to the Moon
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Nov 07, 1966
If U.S. hopes are fulfilled the tremendous power of the Saturn IB rocket motor should, within a few weeks, lift a three-man spacecraft to orbit the earth. Wernher von Braun, the German .. show full overview
1966x22
Sex-Change?
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Nov 21, 1966
Sex-change frequently makes press headlines along with confusing reports of the physiology involved. The withdrawal of five gold-medal-winning women athletes from this year's European .. show full overview
1966x23
The Structure of Life
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Dec 05, 1966
For their work on penicillin, the drug which saved so many lives in World War II, three men were awarded the Nobel Prize. Tonight's film looks at one of these men, Professor Ernst .. show full overview
1966x24 Season finale
Hand Me My Sword, Humphrey
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Dec 25, 1966
It is Christmas Day in the house of Hastings. The time (the 1830s), the place (a suburban Victorian home). and the atmosphere (after the pudding with the children waiting to be .. show full overview

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