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Horizon Season 10

January. 04,1973
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Horizon Season 10 Full Episode Guide

Episode 32 - Kula, a Reason for Giving
Episode 31 - Digging Up the Future
First Aired: December. 17,1973

Can we ever hope to wipe out diseases like influenza and small-pox? Will our weather get better - or worse? Is it possible to grow anything useful on large areas of moorland in this country? Diseases, climate and soil structure alter so slowly that patterns in them can only be found by studying how they've changed over hundreds and thousands of years. Dating methods, which slot all the changes into place, are the most important scientific tools for analyzing the past. And the news they give can advise - and warn - us about the future.

Episode 30 - An Element of Mystery
First Aired: December. 03,1973

This episode of Horizon documents the sources, uses, and properties of the element mercury and examines its role in modern society.

Episode 29 - Air Crash Detective
First Aired: November. 26,1973

In this report, Horizon investigates why airplanes crash and shows accident investigators at work analyzing a film of an actual crash.

Episode 27 - The Steadfast Tin Soldier
First Aired: October. 29,1973

This Horizon documentary is a biography of the Danish nuclear physicist, Nils Bohr, and his efforts to internationally control atomic energy.

Episode 26 - What's so Big About Us?
Episode 25 - The Black Holes of Gravity
First Aired: October. 15,1973

In this episode of Horizon, Prof. John Taylor of the London University looks at the effects of gravity and the forces it exerts on the universe.

Episode 24 - Gilding the Lily
First Aired: October. 08,1973

Horizon presents a documentary on the developments in botany resulting in new flowers and the mass production of plants from single cells.

Episode 23 - Stretch Up Tall
Episode 22 - In Search of Konrad Lorenz
Episode 21 - A Scientist Looks at Religion
Episode 20 - How Does It Hurt?
Episode 19 - The Telly of Tomorrow?
First Aired: June. 21,1973

In this Horizon documentary, it deals with the expansion of television in Britain and the USA, especially with the growth of cable television.

Episode 18 - Do We Really Need the Railways?
Episode 15 - Do You Remember the Memory Man?
Episode 13 - Lumbered... with Back-Ache!
Episode 12 - Red Sea Coral and the Crown of Thorns
Episode 11 - Survival of the Weakest
Episode 10 - What Time Is Your Body?
Episode 8 - ...And Where Will the Children Play?
Episode 7 - Science Is Dead, Long Live Science
First Aired: February. 15,1973

In this documentary by Horizon, we look at chemical warfare and the associated environmental problems that have given science a bad name.

Episode 6 - When the Breeding Has to Stop
First Aired: February. 08,1973

How easy is it to get sterilized? Should there be abortion on demand? Do we need a free contraceptive service? Our average family size is 2.5. To avoid a social and population crisis it needs to be 2.1. Aberdeen, one of the few cities to have a fully comprehensive family planning service, has already successfully cut its birth rate. The Government plan to withdraw this kind of free service. But, in the light of Aberdeen's success, should the Government be made to reconsider?

Episode 5 - Crime Lab
First Aired: February. 01,1973

A jewel robbery, a hit-and-run, and the Case of the Skeleton in the Sand Dunes illustrate the work of forensic scientists and the police they assist. How do they discover the characteristics of an individual bullet as it enters a body? How are blood stains identified or microscopic flakes of paint? How do voiceprints and lie-detectors work? The crime labs of Britain and America have different priorities and different techniques. Each can learn from the other. They also have different success rates. Britain's is currently better. But how long can we hold out against a rapidly rising tide of drugs and violence? What can we learn from American experience?

Episode 3 - The Military Necessity

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