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Season 23

Horizon Season 23

January. 06,1986
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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 23 Full Episode Guide

Episode 23 - Doctors to Be
First Aired: June. 30,1986

In a unique project, Horizon follows a group of medical students into the next century.

Episode 22 - Battered Baby: Breaking the Chain
First Aired: June. 23,1986

This is the second part of a two-part series on battered children.

Episode 21 - Battered Baby: From Generation to Generation
First Aired: June. 16,1986

This is the first part of a two-part series on battered children.

Episode 19 - Who Built Stonehenge?
First Aired: June. 09,1986

Horizon presents an interview with Prof. C. Renfrew as he questions the accepted wisdom about the origins of Stonehenge in England.

Episode 18 - Uranus Encounter
First Aired: May. 26,1986

In this episode, Horizon brings you Voyager's encounter with Uranus and the mysteries that are being relayed back to the scientists.

Episode 17 - A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt
First Aired: May. 19,1986

Horizon presents a simple, but effective, cure for diarrea in young children; sugar and salt.

Episode 16 - What Makes an Animal Smart?
First Aired: May. 12,1986

This report by Horizon takes a look at the instinctive side of intelligence in animals that shows us that we owe more to instinct than we may care to think.

Episode 15 - Twice Five Plus the Wings of a Bird
First Aired: April. 28,1986

Horizon researches how we acquire mathematical abilities in the first place.

Episode 14 - The Men Who Bottled a Cow
First Aired: April. 21,1986

This is an interesting Horizon presentation on decoys that look and smell like cows to the tsetse fly who carry a disease fatal to farm animals.

Episode 13 - Nice Guys Finish First
First Aired: April. 14,1986

In the interview by Horizon, Richard Dawkins discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favours co-operative behaviour, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the prisoner's dilemma game.

Episode 12 - The Case of the Frozen Addict
First Aired: April. 07,1986

In this documentary, Horizon reports on how doctors in America found that addicts using designer drugs developed Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms.

Episode 11 - AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus
First Aired: March. 24,1986

Horizon looks at the virus that causes AIDS and the research into vaccines and drugs being developed to counteract the devastating disease of the immune system.

Episode 10 - In the Wake of HMS Sheffield
First Aired: March. 17,1986

Will the new strategies and weapons introduced because of the Falklands war be a match for the next generation of weapons? Horizon presents this documentary to answer that question.

Episode 9 - Hi-Tech à la Française
First Aired: March. 10,1986

Horizon investigates the remarkable technological transformation of France over the last 25 years.

Episode 8 - The New Face of Leprosy
First Aired: March. 03,1986

This episode of Horizon documents leprosy in the USA and India with a focus on medical developments for it's cure and control.

Episode 7 - The Children of Eve
First Aired: February. 24,1986

Horizon explores at the latest discoveries about just where modern man came from.

Episode 6 - Science...Fiction?
First Aired: February. 17,1986

Horizon investigates the truths of science and it's theories.

Episode 5 - Outbreak: The Microbe Masters the Mould
First Aired: February. 03,1986

In this episode, Horizon explores the question of when antibiotics were first developed it seemed infectious disease might be eliminated, so what has gone wrong?

Episode 4 - The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe
First Aired: January. 27,1986

Horizon explores the myth about the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin.

Episode 3 - Bitter Cold
First Aired: January. 20,1986

Horizon presents a documentary on scientists who take themselves to Antarctica in 1980 to act as physical and mental guinea pigs.

Episode 2 - Genesis
First Aired: January. 13,1986

This Horizon episode is about the discovery of a molecular key which may literally unlock the mystery of life for all creatures.

Episode 1 - Are You a Racist?
First Aired: January. 06,1986

Horizon presents a documentary about how white racists and black victims of racism volunteered to spend time in an isolated house living and talking about their prejudices.

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