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The Best Episodes of Horizon Season 12

Every episode of Horizon Season 12 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Horizon Season 12!

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two

Season 12 Ratings Summary

"The Killer Dust" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 12. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/20/1975. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "A Time to Be Born".

  • The Killer Dust
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    #1 - The Killer Dust

    Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/1975

    This investigative report by Horizon covers an investigation into the deaths of people who inhaled asbestos dust at Acre Mill, Yorkshire, England.

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  • A Time to Be Born
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    #2 - A Time to Be Born

    Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 1/27/1975

    Investigates the growing tendency in hospitals to induce childbirth by injecting hormones into mothers. The practice has become increasingly widespread in recent years, and this film asks if induction is desirable, necessary, and safe.

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  • The Unsafe Sea
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    #3 - The Unsafe Sea

    Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 2/10/1975

    This episode of Horizon examines the problems of ship safety in the English Channel.

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  • The Change of Life
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    #4 - The Change of Life

    Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 2/17/1975

    Horizon investigates the symptoms of menopause and the various degrees in which it occurs.

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  • Project Fido
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    #5 - Project Fido

    Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 2/24/1975

    This episode of Horizon shows the peril to man of the ever increasing dog population in the western world.

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  • The Planets
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    #6 - The Planets

    Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 3/10/1975

    By the end of 1974, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter had all been visited by spacecraft. For the first time scientists saw in sharp detail the continents, mountains, valleys and volcanoes of other worlds. Tonight's programme shows how these geological features give clues to the way the planets evolved; how they have helped scientists in their attempt to reach back 5,000 million years to understand the formation of the solar system itself.

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  • The Long, Long Walkabout
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    #7 - The Long, Long Walkabout

    Season 12 Episode 7 - Aired 4/7/1975

    This report by Horizon covers an investigation by a group of Australian scientists that looks into the origins and history of the Australian Aborigines.

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  • The Overworked Miracle
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    #8 - The Overworked Miracle

    Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 4/14/1975

    This report by Horizon describes the resistance to antibiotics, fast growing in all countries, and the dangers it could mean for the future.

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  • Not the Cheapest, But the Best
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    #9 - Not the Cheapest, But the Best

    Season 12 Episode 9 - Aired 4/21/1975

    Horizon investigates the life and work of the great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

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  • A Spoonful of Roughage
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    #10 - A Spoonful of Roughage

    Season 12 Episode 10 - Aired 4/28/1975

    Horizon explores the effect of fibre in diet on the diseases of western world.

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  • Brain Poison
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    #11 - Brain Poison

    Season 12 Episode 11 - Aired 5/5/1975

    Horizon presents an investigation into the effects on health of lead in the urban atmosphere.

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  • The Bulldog's Last Bark?
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    #12 - The Bulldog's Last Bark?

    Season 12 Episode 12 - Aired 5/12/1975

    This is a Horizon report on the building of the British military deterrent from the first decision to make it in 1941 until the present state of lethargy.

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  • Benjamin
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    #13 - Benjamin

    Season 12 Episode 13 - Aired 5/19/1975

    This episode of Horizon follows the progress of Benjamin Pile, born on 22 November, 1974, at Oxford in Britain.

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  • The McMaster Experiment
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    #14 - The McMaster Experiment

    Season 12 Episode 14 - Aired 6/2/1975

    This report by Horizon covers an experiment at McMaster University Medical School, in Ontario, Canada.

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  • The Glazed Outlook
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    #15 - The Glazed Outlook

    Season 12 Episode 15 - Aired 6/9/1975

    Horizon investigates the attempts by the University of Newcastle in England to define and create an ideal living and working environment.

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  • The Three Chord Trick
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    #16 - The Three Chord Trick

    Season 12 Episode 16 - Aired 6/16/1975

    Horizon explores the psychology of music, as it explains why music has such a powerful emotive effect in every society.

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  • The Cleanest Place in the World
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    #17 - The Cleanest Place in the World

    Season 12 Episode 17 - Aired 6/23/1975

    This report by Horizon brings you scientists that are using Antarctica as a giant natural lab to study who has polluted Earth most; man or nature.

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  • Strange Sleep
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    #18 - Strange Sleep

    Season 12 Episode 18 - Aired 6/30/1975

    Horizon investigates the discovery of gaseous anaesthetic from 1840 until the early years of 20th century.

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  • The Greatest Advance Since the Wheel?
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    #19 - The Greatest Advance Since the Wheel?

    Season 12 Episode 19 - Aired 7/7/1975

    Horizon reports on the history of superconductivity, from discovery, to the present.

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  • How Do You Read?
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    #20 - How Do You Read?

    Season 12 Episode 20 - Aired 7/14/1975

    In this documentary, Horizon reports on the reading process; how it works for the fluent, and how it should be taught.

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  • The Sickly Sea
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    #21 - The Sickly Sea

    Season 12 Episode 21 - Aired 7/21/1975

    This episode of Horizon describes the various aspects of the pollution problem of the Mediterranean Sea.

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  • Happy Catastrophe
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    #22 - Happy Catastrophe

    Season 12 Episode 22 - Aired 7/28/1975

    In this Horizon episode, Rene Thom's mathematical discovery of the catastrophe theory is investigated.

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  • To Die, to Live - The Survivors of Hiroshima
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    #23 - To Die, to Live - The Survivors of Hiroshima

    Season 12 Episode 23 - Aired 8/4/1975

    This documentary by Horizon commemorates the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.

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  • Cannabis
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    #24 - Cannabis

    Season 12 Episode 24 - Aired 8/11/1975

    Horizon takes a look at the history of cannabis and the research on the effects of smoking marijuana.

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  • Meditation and the Mind
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    #25 - Meditation and the Mind

    Season 12 Episode 25 - Aired 8/18/1975

    This is a report by Horizon on Transcendental Meditation, or TM, brought to the West by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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