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The Best Episodes of Horizon Season 24

Every episode of Horizon Season 24 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Horizon Season 24!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Horizon Season 24 Episode 1 - The Twenty-Five Hour Clock
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    #1 - The Twenty-Five Hour Clock

    S24:E1

    Report on research into biological body clocks, which can effect emotional and physical health and well-being.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Horizon Season 24 Episode 2 - The Search for the Disappeared
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    #2 - The Search for the Disappeared

    S24:E2

    Report on how forensic scientists ae identifying individual victims amongst the people murdered by Argentina's military juntas, by examination and genetic testing of their remains.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Horizon Season 24 Episode 3 - The Blind Watchmaker
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    #3 - The Blind Watchmaker

    S24:E3

    In this interview by Horizon, zoologist Richard Dawkins investigates an attack on evolution by scientific creationists, based on the book of the same name by the famous zoologist.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Horizon Season 24 Episode 4 - Riding the Stack
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    #4 - Riding the Stack

    S24:E4

    Astronauts and space shuttle designers talk about the risks of space flight, in the light of the space shuttle disaster of January 1986.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Horizon Season 24 Episode 5 - Bruno Bettelheim: The Man Who Cared for Children
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    #5 - Bruno Bettelheim: The Man Who Cared for Children

    S24:E5

    Two part documentary on psychologist Bruno Bettelheim and his work with emotionally disturbed children.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Horizon Season 24 Episode 6 - Bruno Bettelheim: A Sense of Surviving
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    #6 - Bruno Bettelheim: A Sense of Surviving

    S24:E6

    Two part documentary on psychologist Bruno Bettelheim and his work with emotionally disturbed children.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Horizon Season 24 Episode 7 - Energy from Outer Space
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    #7 - Energy from Outer Space

    S24:E7

    Report on exploration into releasing energy sources which came from outer space during the formation of the earth, 4,500 million years ago, and have lain dormant under the earth's crust. In Sweden a five mile deep drill hole was made to unleash this energy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Horizon Season 24 Episode 8 - The Return of the Osprey
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    #8 - The Return of the Osprey

    S24:E8

    Documentary on the Osprey in north east America, where its natural habitat was being damaged by the use of DDT, but after some conservation work the Osprey is returning to the area.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Horizon Season 24 Episode 9 - Can AIDS Be Stopped?
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    #9 - Can AIDS Be Stopped?

    S24:E9

    Report on the development of the AIDS virus, and current research into vaccines to combat the disease.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Horizon Season 24 Episode 10 - Police Stress: The John Wayne Syndrome
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    #10 - Police Stress: The John Wayne Syndrome

    S24:E10

    Documentary on the increasing pressure put on the British police resulting in stress and psychological disorders, and also on the work of Dr. Douglas Duckworth, a psychologist at Leeds University who has worked with the police on these problems.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Horizon Season 24 Episode 11 - To Engineer Is Human
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    #11 - To Engineer Is Human

    S24:E11

    Engineer Henry Petroski explains why engineering can never be an exact science and looks at examples of engineering failures.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Horizon Season 24 Episode 12 - The Magma Chamber
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    #12 - The Magma Chamber

    S24:E12

    Report on the research into volcanoes by British scientists Professor Geoff Brow n and Dr. Hazel Rymer, who have developed a technique of exploring the magma chambers of volcanoes and predicting when they will erupt.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Horizon Season 24 Episode 13 - Broken Images
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    #13 - Broken Images

    S24:E13

    Report on two sufferers of visual agnosia. The condition affects their ability to impose order on the visual world, even though they are not blind, but it does reveal a great deal about normal perception.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Horizon Season 24 Episode 14 - Trial Babies
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    #14 - Trial Babies

    S24:E14

    Report on the different tests done on pregnant women to detect abnormalities in the foetus, with investigation of why these tests are not available in all pregnancies.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Horizon Season 24 Episode 15 - After Chernobyl - Closer to Home
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    #15 - After Chernobyl - Closer to Home

    S24:E15

    Report on the safety of UK nuclear power stations, following the accident at Chernobyl in the USSR in 1986. The programme focuses on the nuclear installation at Hartlepool on Teeside, which has the smallest evacuation zone in the western world.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Horizon Season 24 Episode 16 - Making Sex Pay
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    #16 - Making Sex Pay

    S24:E16

    James Gould, Professor of Biology at Princeton University, lectures on the mating habits of animals and humans.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Horizon Season 24 Episode 17 - The Anthropic Principle
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    #17 - The Anthropic Principle

    S24:E17

    Discussion of the Anthropic Principle, a scientific theory for man's place in th e Universe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Horizon Season 24 Episode 19 - Aircrash: The Burning Issue
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    #18 - Aircrash: The Burning Issue

    S24:E19

    Report on the need for improved safety features on airplanes in particular the desirability of smoke hoods, plus an interview with a survivor of the 1985 Manchester aircrash.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Horizon Season 24 Episode 20 - The Riddle of the Joints
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    #19 - The Riddle of the Joints

    S24:E20

    Report on research into rheumatoid arthritis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Horizon Season 24 Episode 21 - To Catch a Falling Star
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    #20 - To Catch a Falling Star

    S24:E21

    Report on the future and commercial benefit of research into astronomy conducted by the Royal Greenwich Observatory and other scientific institutions in Great Britain.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Horizon Season 24 Episode 22 - In the Light of New Information
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    #21 - In the Light of New Information

    S24:E22

    Report on the evolution of laser light technology for communication in the 21st century, with a dramatised account of the effect of the technology on our daily lives.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Horizon Season 24 Episode 23 - Janice's Choice
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    #22 - Janice's Choice

    S24:E23

    Janice Blenkharn's mother died of Huntington's Chorea, which any child of a victim has a 50-50 chance of inheriting. Janice is faced with the choice of having a test, developed after research in South America, to see if she has this incurable genetic disease.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 24 Ratings Summary

"The Twenty-Five Hour Clock" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 24. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/5/1987. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Search for the Disappeared".