NaN/100 votes#1 - Are You a Racist?
Season 23 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1986
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.
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#2 - Genesis
Season 23 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1986
This Horizon episode is about the discovery of a molecular key which may literally unlock the mystery of life for all creatures.
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#3 - Bitter Cold
Season 23 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1986
Horizon presents a documentary on scientists who take themselves to Antarctica in 1980 to act as physical and mental guinea pigs.
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#4 - The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe
Season 23 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1986
Horizon explores the myth about the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin.
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#5 - Outbreak: The Microbe Masters the Mould
Season 23 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/1986
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?
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#6 - Science...Fiction?
Season 23 Episode 6 - Aired 2/17/1986
Horizon investigates the truths of science and it's theories.
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#7 - The Children of Eve
Season 23 Episode 7 - Aired 2/24/1986
Horizon explores at the latest discoveries about just where modern man came from.
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#8 - The New Face of Leprosy
Season 23 Episode 8 - Aired 3/3/1986
This episode of Horizon documents leprosy in the USA and India with a focus on medical developments for it's cure and control.
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#9 - Hi-Tech à la Française
Season 23 Episode 9 - Aired 3/10/1986
Horizon investigates the remarkable technological transformation of France over the last 25 years.
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#10 - In the Wake of HMS Sheffield
Season 23 Episode 10 - Aired 3/17/1986
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.
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#11 - AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus
Season 23 Episode 11 - Aired 3/24/1986
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.
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#12 - The Case of the Frozen Addict
Season 23 Episode 12 - Aired 4/7/1986
In this documentary, Horizon reports on how doctors in America found that addicts using designer drugs developed Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms.
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#13 - Nice Guys Finish First
Season 23 Episode 13 - Aired 4/14/1986
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.
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#14 - The Men Who Bottled a Cow
Season 23 Episode 14 - Aired 4/21/1986
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.
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#15 - Twice Five Plus the Wings of a Bird
Season 23 Episode 15 - Aired 4/28/1986
Horizon researches how we acquire mathematical abilities in the first place.
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#16 - What Makes an Animal Smart?
Season 23 Episode 16 - Aired 5/12/1986
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.
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#17 - A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt
Season 23 Episode 17 - Aired 5/19/1986
Horizon presents a simple, but effective, cure for diarrea in young children; sugar and salt.
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#18 - Uranus Encounter
Season 23 Episode 18 - Aired 5/26/1986
In this episode, Horizon brings you Voyager's encounter with Uranus and the mysteries that are being relayed back to the scientists.
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#19 - Who Built Stonehenge?
Season 23 Episode 19 - Aired 6/9/1986
Horizon presents an interview with Prof. C. Renfrew as he questions the accepted wisdom about the origins of Stonehenge in England.
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#20 - Battered Baby: From Generation to Generation
Season 23 Episode 21 - Aired 6/16/1986
This is the first part of a two-part series on battered children.
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#21 - Battered Baby: Breaking the Chain
Season 23 Episode 22 - Aired 6/23/1986
This is the second part of a two-part series on battered children.
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#22 - Doctors to Be
Season 23 Episode 23 - Aired 6/30/1986
In a unique project, Horizon follows a group of medical students into the next century.
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The Best Episodes of Horizon Season 23
Every episode of Horizon Season 23 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Horizon Season 23!
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Season 23 Ratings Summary
"Are You a Racist?" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 23. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/6/1986. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Genesis".