Horizon - Season 19
Episodes
E1: The Secret of the Snake
Profile of the snake, which presents a close-up look at how it kills and digests it's prey. Also sho
E2: Finding a Voice
An examination of computer-based communication aids for the severely speech impaired. Follows the tr
E3: The Sea Beyond the Dunes
Documentary which looks at the wildlife of Pleasant Bay in New England marshland s of the Eastern US
E4: Whatever Happened to the Energy Crisis?
Horizon explores what might happen when fossil fuel sources are depleted.
E5: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Horizon documents how every one of us is owned and operated by other individuals; by hordes of hidde
E6: The Cline Affair
Documentary on the first recorded instance of genetic engineering being carried out on a human, when
E7: The Million Murdering Death
Documentary which looks at the way in which disease in the world fights back against modern scientif
E8: Shots in the Dark
An examination of the use of Depo-Provera in the Third World. The contraceptive is injected and prev
E9: The Victims
Documentary which looks at the psychological effects of kidnapping and imprisonment on the victims,b
E10: The Future - Made in Japan?
Examines the prospects for Japanese economic supremacy in the 1990s and asks whether Japan will be a
E11: The Private Face of Medicine
Documentary which looks at the boom in private medicine in GB and at the effects of this on the Nati
E12: The Fatal Bargain
Documentary which looks at the outbreak of a new disease in Spain in 1981 which has affected 17,000
E13: The Miracle of Life
Documentary which shows the human reproductive cycle from conception to birth, through the use of mi
E14: The Case of the UFOs
Documentary which looks at the phenomenon of the Unidentified Flying Object and the possible explana
E15: A Killing Rain
Documentary about acid rain. The effects of various forms of pollution caused by processes of everyd
E16: Intimate Relations
A look at current research into the causes and effects of divorce in the Western world.
E17: The Scientist and the Baby
Documentary which looks at the great advances in the performance of ante-natal operations on the hum
E18: Brave New Babies?
Oxford moral philosopher Jonathan Glover introduces some of the new developments in genetic engineer
E19: The Professor of Surgery
An informal portrait of Prof. Ian McColl at work in Guy's Hospital, London, and in Kent. He discusse
E20: The Chopper
Traces the evolution of the helicopter, using rare archive footage of early pioneering flights. Also
E21: The State of the Planet
Documentary on the discussions at the second UN Environment Conference,in London in 1982,illustratin
E22: The Mysterious Mr. Tesla
Documentary about the little known Yugoslav-American scientist Nikola Tesla, whose experiments with