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#1 - Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts
Season 18 Episode 9
Aired 3/9/1981
Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.
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#2 - Spend and Prosper
Season 18 Episode 1
Aired 1/5/1981
Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.
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#3 - A Whole New Medicine
Season 18 Episode 2
Aired 1/12/1981
This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.
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#4 - The Qualyub Project
Season 18 Episode 3
Aired 1/19/1981
Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.
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#5 - No One Will Take Me Seriously
Season 18 Episode 4
Aired 1/26/1981
Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.
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#6 - Living with Dying
Season 18 Episode 5
Aired 2/2/1981
Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.
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#7 - A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb
Season 18 Episode 6
Aired 2/9/1981
In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.
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#8 - Who Will Deliver Your Baby?
Season 18 Episode 7
Aired 2/16/1981
Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.
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#9 - West of Bangalore
Season 18 Episode 8
Aired 3/2/1981
A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.
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#10 - Hello Universe!
Season 18 Episode 10
Aired 3/16/1981
Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.
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#11 - Voices from Silent Hands
Season 18 Episode 11
Aired 3/23/1981
Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.
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#12 - Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
Season 18 Episode 12
Aired 3/30/1981
In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.
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#13 - East of Bombay
Season 18 Episode 13
Aired 4/6/1981
This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are common killers in Indian communities. Also, a report on Salubai, one of these native health workers and her work at Kamkhed in Western India.
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#14 - Resolution on Saturn - The Rings
Season 18 Episode 14
Aired 4/11/1981
Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
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#15 - Resolution on Saturn - The Moons
Season 18 Episode 15
Aired 4/13/1981
Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
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#16 - Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Season 18 Episode 16
Aired 9/28/1981
In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near where they live.
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#17 - The Hunt for the Legion Killer
Season 18 Episode 17
Aired 10/5/1981
Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.
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#18 - Breaking in Children
Season 18 Episode 18
Aired 10/12/1981
In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.
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#19 - The Grid
Season 18 Episode 19
Aired 10/19/1981
Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierce competition of the French and Italian racings teams by finding ways around new rulings to make their cars first on the grid.
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#20 - Butterflies or Barley?
Season 18 Episode 20
Aired 10/26/1981
Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.
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#21 - Science for the People
Season 18 Episode 21
Aired 11/2/1981
Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical processing plant from the UK and computers from the USA when they have a quarter of the world's scientists and still give science and research the highest priority.
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#22 - The Race to Ruin
Season 18 Episode 22
Aired 11/9/1981
This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for the extensive space defense system to match the Russians based on a misconception of the USSR war effort from space?
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#23 - Death of the Dinosaurs
Season 18 Episode 23
Aired 11/16/1981
Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.
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#24 - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Season 18 Episode 24
Aired 11/23/1981
Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965. In this documentary he talks about his motivations to be a scientist and a teacher of science.
Director: Christopher Sykes
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#25 - The Cornucopia
Season 18 Episode 25
Aired 11/30/1981
Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies which leads to the creation of overproduction of agricultural products. Do they need to reform the policy?
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The Best Episodes of Horizon Season 18
Every episode of Horizon Season 18 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Horizon Season 18!
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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Season 18 Ratings Summary
"Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 18. It scored 8.7/10 based on 148 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/9/1981. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Spend and Prosper".