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Horizon Season 4

January. 17,1967
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Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

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Horizon Season 4 Full Episode Guide

Episode 24 - Professor in Toyland
Episode 23 - The World of Ted Serios
First Aired: December. 12,1967

Horizon looks into the life of Ted Serios who claims to have psychic powers and to be able to project images onto film using only his thoughts.

Episode 22 - Koestler on Creativity
Episode 21 - The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary
First Aired: November. 21,1967

Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.

Episode 19 - Will Art Last?
First Aired: October. 24,1967

In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.

Episode 17 - Aspects of Alcohol
First Aired: September. 26,1967

Horizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbon 14 used for determining how old an object is.

Episode 15 - The War of the Boffins
First Aired: September. 12,1967

During the human struggles between the British and German air forces ... another conflict was going on step by step, month by month. This was a secret war whose battles were lost or won unknown to the public: and only with difficulty is it comprehended even now by those outside the smalt high scientific circles concerned.

Episode 14 - Hypnosis
Episode 12 - Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble
First Aired: June. 20,1967

Why is there doubt in so many people's minds about the relationship between lung cancer and smoking? Tonight's programme examines the latest scientific evidence in detail.

Episode 11 - Cancer - The Search for the Virus
First Aired: June. 06,1967

In this the first of two programmes dealing with cancer, Horizon looks at the intensive search now going on to discover whether a virus is one of the causes of cancer in humans and at the implications of this search in the treatment for such killer diseases as leukemia.

Episode 10 - Masters of the Desert
First Aired: May. 23,1967

Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.

Episode 8 - The Shape of War to Come
First Aired: April. 25,1967

Will the next major war be fought with biological and chemical weapons? What are the available weapons? What is the horror they can cause? Is there any moral justification for their use?

Episode 7 - Sleep and Dreams
First Aired: April. 11,1967

Joel, a healthy young American, is reduced to a restless neurotic state after being deprived of his dreams for three nights. Mr Bates, an eighty-four-year-old ex-milk man, has never dreamed in his life, or so he says until he is woken by scientists in the middle of a dream trip to New York.

Episode 6 - How Safe Is Surgery?
First Aired: March. 28,1967

Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.

Episode 5 - Migraine
Episode 4 - Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday
First Aired: February. 28,1967

Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.

Episode 3 - How Best to Make a Man / How Best to Make a Scientist
First Aired: February. 14,1967

In this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. This school uses a competition held for Russian school children to qualify new students.

Episode 2 - When Is a Body Dead? / How to Win Friends and Influence People
First Aired: January. 31,1967

Medical advances have made it possible for 'life' to be maintained in an unconscious patient who has irrevocable brain damage and who might also be dependent on artificial aids to circulation and respiration. Is it now meaningless to define 'death' as the cessation of a heart beat? Why do so many people have difficulty In communicating, or in simply getting-on with other people? Psychologists have now begun to analyse aspects of social behaviour in a way which they believe will lead to more pleasant and more effective human relationships.

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