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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!

The Best Episodes of Horizon Season 12

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    #1 - The Killer Dust

    S12:E1

    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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    #2 - A Time to Be Born

    S12:E2

    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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    #3 - The Unsafe Sea

    S12:E3

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

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    #4 - The Change of Life

    S12:E4

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

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    #5 - Project Fido

    S12:E5

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

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    #6 - The Planets

    S12:E6

    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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    #7 - The Long, Long Walkabout

    S12:E7

    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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    #8 - The Overworked Miracle

    S12:E8

    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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    #9 - Not the Cheapest, But the Best

    S12:E9

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

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    #10 - A Spoonful of Roughage

    S12:E10

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

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    #11 - Brain Poison

    S12:E11

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

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    #12 - The Bulldog's Last Bark?

    S12:E12

    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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    #13 - Benjamin

    S12:E13

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

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    #14 - The McMaster Experiment

    S12:E14

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

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    #15 - The Glazed Outlook

    S12:E15

    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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    #16 - The Three Chord Trick

    S12:E16

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

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    #17 - The Cleanest Place in the World

    S12:E17

    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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    #18 - Strange Sleep

    S12:E18

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

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    #19 - The Greatest Advance Since the Wheel?

    S12:E19

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

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    #20 - How Do You Read?

    S12:E20

    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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    #21 - The Sickly Sea

    S12:E21

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

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    #22 - Happy Catastrophe

    S12:E22

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

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

    S12:E23

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

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    #24 - Cannabis

    S12:E24

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

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    #25 - Meditation and the Mind

    S12:E25

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

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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".