Seasons & episodes
S18 · E6A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb 1981-02-09 · 60 min
In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.
S18 · E7Who Will Deliver Your Baby? 1981-02-16 · 60 min
Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.
S18 · E8West of Bangalore 1981-03-02 · 60 min
A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.
S18 · E9Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts 1981-03-09 · 60 min
Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.
S18 · E10Hello Universe! 1981-03-16 · 60 min
Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.
S18 · E11Voices from Silent Hands 1981-03-23 · 60 min
Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.
S18 · E12Did Darwin Get It Wrong? 1981-03-30 · 60 min
In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.
S18 · E13East of Bombay 1981-04-06 · 60 min
This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are common killers in Indian communities. Also, a report on Salubai, one of these native health workers and her work at Kamkhed in Western India.
S18 · E14Resolution on Saturn - The Rings 1981-04-11 · 60 min
Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
S18 · E15Resolution on Saturn - The Moons 1981-04-13 · 60 min
Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
S18 · E16Heads I Win, Tails You Lose 1981-09-28 · 60 min
In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near where they live.
S18 · E17The Hunt for the Legion Killer 1981-10-05 · 60 min
Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.
S18 · E18Breaking in Children 1981-10-12 · 60 min
In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.
S18 · E19The Grid 1981-10-19 · 60 min
Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierce competition of the French and Italian racings teams by finding ways around new rulings to make their cars first on the grid.
S18 · E20Butterflies or Barley? 1981-10-26 · 60 min
Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.
S18 · E21Science for the People 1981-11-02 · 60 min
Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical processing plant from the UK and computers from the USA when they have a quarter of the world's scientists and still give science and research the highest priority.
S18 · E22The Race to Ruin 1981-11-09 · 60 min
This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for the extensive space defense system to match the Russians based on a misconception of the USSR war effort from space?
S18 · E23Death of the Dinosaurs 1981-11-16 · 60 min
Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.
S18 · E24The Pleasure of Finding Things Out 1981-11-23 · 60 min
Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965. In this documentary he talks about his motivations to be a scientist and a teacher of science.
S18 · E25The Cornucopia 1981-11-30 · 60 min
Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies which leads to the creation of overproduction of agricultural products. Do they need to reform the policy?
S18 · E26A Race Against Time 1981-12-07 · 60 min
Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first run.
S18 · E27Painting by Numbers 1981-12-21 · 60 min
Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It looks at the manipulation of 3-D images to paint, animate, design, and test scientific hypothesis.
S19 · E1The Secret of the Snake 1982-01-11 · 60 min
Profile of the snake, which presents a close-up look at how it kills and digests it's prey. Also shows how snake venom could be used in the treatment of many human ailments.
S19 · E2Finding a Voice 1982-01-18 · 60 min
An examination of computer-based communication aids for the severely speech impaired. Follows the trip to America of Dick Boydell, a cerebral palsy sufferer without the power of speech. At the Artificial Language Research Laboratory in Michigan, he tries out some of the machines developed the re to help him find his own voice.