Season 23
22 episodes · first aired 1986-01-06
| Still | # | Title | Overview | Air date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Are You a Racist? 1986-01-06 | 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. | 1986-01-06 | 0.0 | |
| 02 | Genesis 1986-01-13 | This Horizon episode is about the discovery of a molecular key which may literally unlock the mystery of life for all creatures. | 1986-01-13 | 0.0 | |
| 03 | Bitter Cold 1986-01-20 | Horizon presents a documentary on scientists who take themselves to Antarctica in 1980 to act as physical and mental guinea pigs. | 1986-01-20 | 0.0 | |
| 04 | The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe 1986-01-27 | Horizon explores the myth about the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin. | 1986-01-27 | 0.0 | |
| 05 | Outbreak: The Microbe Masters the Mould 1986-02-03 | 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? | 1986-02-03 | 0.0 | |
| 06 | Science...Fiction? 1986-02-17 | Horizon investigates the truths of science and it's theories. | 1986-02-17 | 0.0 | |
| 07 | The Children of Eve 1986-02-24 | Horizon explores at the latest discoveries about just where modern man came from. | 1986-02-24 | 0.0 | |
| 08 | The New Face of Leprosy 1986-03-03 | This episode of Horizon documents leprosy in the USA and India with a focus on medical developments for it's cure and control. | 1986-03-03 | 0.0 | |
| 09 | Hi-Tech à la Française 1986-03-10 | Horizon investigates the remarkable technological transformation of France over the last 25 years. | 1986-03-10 | 0.0 | |
| 10 | In the Wake of HMS Sheffield 1986-03-17 | 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. | 1986-03-17 | 0.0 | |
| 11 | AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus 1986-03-24 | 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. | 1986-03-24 | 0.0 | |
| 12 | The Case of the Frozen Addict 1986-04-07 | In this documentary, Horizon reports on how doctors in America found that addicts using designer drugs developed Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms. | 1986-04-07 | 0.0 | |
| 13 | Nice Guys Finish First 1986-04-14 | 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. | 1986-04-14 | 0.0 | |
| 14 | The Men Who Bottled a Cow 1986-04-21 | 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. | 1986-04-21 | 0.0 | |
| 15 | Twice Five Plus the Wings of a Bird 1986-04-28 | Horizon researches how we acquire mathematical abilities in the first place. | 1986-04-28 | 0.0 | |
| 16 | What Makes an Animal Smart? 1986-05-12 | 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. | 1986-05-12 | 0.0 | |
| 17 | A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt 1986-05-19 | Horizon presents a simple, but effective, cure for diarrea in young children; sugar and salt. | 1986-05-19 | 0.0 | |
| 18 | Uranus Encounter 1986-05-26 | In this episode, Horizon brings you Voyager's encounter with Uranus and the mysteries that are being relayed back to the scientists. | 1986-05-26 | 0.0 | |
| 19 | Who Built Stonehenge? 1986-06-09 | Horizon presents an interview with Prof. C. Renfrew as he questions the accepted wisdom about the origins of Stonehenge in England. | 1986-06-09 | 0.0 | |
| 21 | Battered Baby: From Generation to Generation 1986-06-16 | This is the first part of a two-part series on battered children. | 1986-06-16 | 0.0 | |
| 22 | Battered Baby: Breaking the Chain 1986-06-23 | This is the second part of a two-part series on battered children. | 1986-06-23 | 0.0 | |
| 23 | Doctors to Be 1986-06-30 | In a unique project, Horizon follows a group of medical students into the next century. | 1986-06-30 | 0.0 |
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