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Horizon Season 18

January. 05,1981
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Horizon Season 18 Full Episode Guide

Episode 27 - Painting by Numbers
First Aired: December. 21,1981

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.

Episode 26 - A Race Against Time
First Aired: December. 07,1981

Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first run.

Episode 25 - The Cornucopia
First Aired: November. 30,1981

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?

Episode 24 - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
First Aired: November. 23,1981

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.

Episode 23 - Death of the Dinosaurs
Episode 22 - The Race to Ruin
First Aired: November. 09,1981

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?

Episode 21 - Science for the People
First Aired: November. 02,1981

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.

Episode 20 - Butterflies or Barley?
Episode 19 - The Grid
First Aired: October. 19,1981

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.

Episode 18 - Breaking in Children
Episode 17 - The Hunt for the Legion Killer
Episode 16 - Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
First Aired: September. 28,1981

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.

Episode 15 - Resolution on Saturn - The Moons
First Aired: April. 13,1981

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.

Episode 14 - Resolution on Saturn - The Rings
First Aired: April. 11,1981

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.

Episode 13 - East of Bombay
First Aired: April. 06,1981

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.

Episode 12 - Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
First Aired: March. 30,1981

In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.

Episode 11 - Voices from Silent Hands
Episode 9 - Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts
Episode 7 - Who Will Deliver Your Baby?
Episode 6 - A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb
Episode 4 - No One Will Take Me Seriously
Episode 3 - The Qualyub Project
Episode 2 - A Whole New Medicine
Episode 1 - Spend and Prosper

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