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#1 - 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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#2 - 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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#3 - 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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#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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Season 23 Ratings Summary
"Bitter Cold" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 23. It scored 8.1/10 based on 83 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/20/1986. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Are You a Racist?".