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Season 21

Horizon Season 21

January. 09,1984
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8.6
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TV-PG
| Documentary

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

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Horizon Season 21 Full Episode Guide

Episode 22 - Supercharged
First Aired: December. 17,1984

Horizon presents a chronological history of the development of the racing car during the 15 years prior to World War II.

Episode 21 - A Mathematical Mystery Tour
First Aired: December. 10,1984

Horizon attempts to explain some of the theories proposed by pure mathematicians over the ages.

Episode 20 - Ivan
First Aired: December. 03,1984

In this documentary, Horizon spends a week with a victim of Parkinson's disease and how he has to use considerable muscular effort in order to cope with day-to-day life.

Episode 19 - Global Village
First Aired: November. 26,1984

Horizon examines the concept and implications of a global village in Third World countries.

Episode 18 - The Brain Puzzle
First Aired: November. 19,1984

Horizon documents the current medical research into finding new ways of repairing damage to the brain and the central nervous system.

Episode 17 - Picking Winners
First Aired: November. 12,1984

Horizon reports on the decline in the amount of gambling leading to a severe reductions in money to fund the scientific research in Britain.

Episode 16 - Contented Cows and Other Animals
First Aired: November. 05,1984

Horizon explores the behavioural patterns of sheep, cows, chickens, and pigs under both natural and intensive farming conditions.

Episode 15 - The Malvern Link
First Aired: May. 07,1984

Horizon investigates the military bias of British scientific industries and the possible consequences if the bias continues.

Episode 14 - A Cruel Inheritance
First Aired: April. 30,1984

Horizon reports on new medical techniques to diagnose the inherited diseases; sickle cell anaemia and cystic fibrosis.

Episode 13 - The Mind of a Murderer: The Mask of Madness
First Aired: April. 23,1984

Horizon presents the second part of a two-part documentary about Kenneth Bianchi, the Los Angeles Hillside Strangler, who was convicted of the murder of 12 women even though his defence was that he had no memory of the crimes.

Episode 12 - The Mind of a Murderer: The Case of the Hillside Strangler
First Aired: April. 16,1984

Horizon presents the first of a two-part documentary about Kenneth Bianchi, the Los Angeles Hillside Strangler, who was convicted of the murder of 12 women even though his defence was that he had no memory of the crimes.

Episode 11 - Professor Bonner and the Slime Moulds
First Aired: April. 09,1984

In the documentary, Horizon reports on the life of slime moulds and how they provides clues to cell differentiation.

Episode 10 - Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales
First Aired: March. 26,1984

Horizon investigates the linguistic potential of non-human species.

Episode 9 - Prisoners of Incest
First Aired: March. 19,1984

In this documentary, Horizon reconstructs a therapy session where a man imprisoned for incest meets his family for first time in two and one half years.

Episode 8 - A Normal Face
First Aired: March. 12,1984

Horizon presents a report on current research and trends in facial reconstructive surgery.

Episode 7 - Reflections on a River
First Aired: March. 05,1984

Horizon investigates the life for various civilizations along the river Waveney in east Angola.

Episode 6 - The Conquest of Parasites
First Aired: February. 27,1984

Horizon presents this report on parasites, their life styles, and the diseases they cause in Third World countries.

Episode 5 - Valley of the Inca
First Aired: February. 13,1984

In this documentary, Horizon examines the work at an archaeological project in the Cusichaca Valley, Peru.

Episode 4 - Spies in the Wires
First Aired: January. 30,1984

Horizon examines the various ways of committing computer fraud and at the efforts to prevent it and preserve our privacy.

Episode 3 - A New Green Revolution?
First Aired: January. 23,1984

This episode of Horizon looks at the role of scientists in agriculture throughout the Third World countries.

Episode 2 - Microworld!
First Aired: January. 16,1984

Horizon looks at the research advances in physics and technology of microelectronics.

Episode 1 - The Intelligence Man
First Aired: January. 09,1984

Sir Cyril Burt died in 1971, the most eminent psychologist of his age. Within two years the most bitter and disturbing scientific controversy since Piltdown Man saw Burt accused of lifelong faking and manipulation of phoney data. How and why was Burt allowed to get away with this?

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