NaN/100 votes#1 - Living Machines
Season 15 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1978
Horizon investigates how biologists and engineers are pooling their ideas to understand how nature's machines work.
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#2 - A Land for All Reasons
Season 15 Episode 2 - Aired 1/20/1978
In this episode, Horizon examines the need for an objective approach to land management in Britain.
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#3 - I Don't Want to Be a Burden
Season 15 Episode 3 - Aired 1/27/1978
Horizon explores community and residential services available to the elderly in South Hampton, England.
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#4 - Zero G
Season 15 Episode 4 - Aired 2/3/1978
Horizon presents a report on zero gravity and the effects of weightlessness in spacecraft on humans.
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#5 - The Message in the Rocks
Season 15 Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/1978
Develops the theory that four and a half thousand million years ago the earth was formed thanks to the explosion of a huge star which provided the rocks, the minerals and the radioactivity from which life developed. These theories are based partly on analysis of a meteorite which dropped near a village in Mexico at the beginning of the seventies.
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#6 - The Eddystone Lights
Season 15 Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/1978
Horizon reports on last three attempts to build a lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, near Plymouth.
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#7 - Light of the 21st Century
Season 15 Episode 7 - Aired 3/10/1978
Horizon presents a documentary on the development of the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation device, or more commonly know as the Laser.
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#8 - The New Breadline
Season 15 Episode 8 - Aired 3/24/1978
Horizon investigates the reasons for poverty in Britain today, now with seven million on at the poverty line.
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#9 - Now the Chips Are Down
Season 15 Episode 9 - Aired 3/31/1978
About the applications and implications for the future, particularly the effects on the labour market, of microprocessors.
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#10 - Explosions in the Mind
Season 15 Episode 10 - Aired 7/14/1978
In this episode, Horizon explores the after effects of a stroke when there is a sudden stoppage of blood to the human brain.
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#11 - One Small Step
Season 15 Episode 11 - Aired 7/21/1978
Horizon investigates the race to the moon between the USA and Russia and questions the motives behind the space race.
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#12 - The Tsetse Trap
Season 15 Episode 12 - Aired 7/28/1978
This episode of Horizon is about the tsetse fly which rules most of Africa and why much of the fertile land can't in Africa can't be used because of the dangerous insect.
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#13 - A Whisper From Space
Season 15 Episode 13 - Aired 8/4/1978
Horizon explores the history of evidence used to support the Big Bang Theory of the creation of the universe.
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#14 - Prisoners of Hope
Season 15 Episode 14 - Aired 8/11/1978
In this episode, Horizon explains some of the research in multiple sclerosis and how the lives of MS sufferers are affected.
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#15 - On a Different Track
Season 15 Episode 15 - Aired 8/18/1978
Horizon presents a brief history of the French railways and the policy behind their future direction.
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#16 - Careering into Science
Season 15 Episode 16 - Aired 8/25/1978
This documentary by Horizon is about six school children taking 'O' levels exams and inter science in Britain.
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#17 - Cashing in on the Ocean
Season 15 Episode 17 - Aired 9/1/1978
Horizon looks at the implications of exploiting Manganese nodules which are scattered over the seabed.
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#18 - Bags of Life
Season 15 Episode 18 - Aired 9/8/1978
Horizon investigates the composition and structure of the membrane that surround individual cells.
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#19 - Innocent Slaughter?
Season 15 Episode 19 - Aired 9/15/1978
In this documentary, Horizon examines all sides of the Canadian Harpseal hunt issue and asks if it is really necessary.
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#20 - The Beersheva Experiment
Season 15 Episode 20 - Aired 11/3/1978
Horizon explores an experimental medical school in Israel where students are trained primarily to care for people.
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#21 - Divers Do It Deeper
Season 15 Episode 21 - Aired 11/10/1978
Horizon explores the years of research that have enabled divers to go to greater and greater ocean depth.
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#22 - The Big Sleep
Season 15 Episode 22 - Aired 11/17/1978
In this story, Horizon takes a look at the world's leading hibernation research projects.
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#23 - The Vital Spark
Season 15 Episode 23 - Aired 11/24/1978
In this episode, Horizon examines the current developments in electrotherapy.
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#24 - The Red Deer of Rhum
Season 15 Episode 24 - Aired 12/29/1978
Horizon takes a look at the changing behaviour of individual animals in a herd of red deer on the Isle of Rhum.
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The Best Episodes of Horizon Season 15
Every episode of Horizon Season 15 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Horizon Season 15!
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Season 15 Ratings Summary
"Living Machines" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 15. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/6/1978. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "A Land for All Reasons".