NaN/100 votes#1 - Oil Spill
Season 27 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/1990
After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, Horizon looks at tanker design and the technology used for dealing with major oil slicks.
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#2 - Medicine 2000
Season 27 Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/1990
Horizon reports on medical developments in Britain which could mean by the year 2000, health care will be very different.
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#3 - Food Irradiation: Would You Buy It?
Season 27 Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/1990
Horizon examines the history of research into irradiated food.
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#4 - From Earth to Miranda
Season 27 Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/1990
In this Horizon documentary, we look at how NASA launched the Voyager space probes to explore the planets of the outer solar system.
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#5 - Encounter With Neptune
Season 27 Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/1990
This report by Horizon presents the Voyager space probe close up encounter with the planet Neptune.
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#6 - Guess What's Coming to Dinner?
Season 27 Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/1990
Horizon looks at the potential implications of genetically engineering plants.
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#7 - The First 14 Days
Season 27 Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/1990
Horizon brings you a documentary on embryology - the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms from the moment of conception.
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#8 - The 10,000 Year Test
Season 27 Episode 8 - Aired 3/5/1990
Horizon reports on how America has chosen to bury all of its most lethal radioactive waste under Yucca mountain in the state of Nevada.
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#9 - Hurricane!
Season 27 Episode 9 - Aired 3/12/1990
Horizon explores the inside of Hurricane Gilbert as it neared Jamaica on a direct course for the United States.
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#10 - The Britannic Greenhouse
Season 27 Episode 10 - Aired 3/19/1990
Horizon investigates how British scientists have begun to experiment to predict the effects of a changing climate from Greenhouse gases.
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#11 - Cold Fusion
Season 27 Episode 11 - Aired 3/26/1990
This story by Horizon investigates cold fusion
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#12 - The Quake of '89 - The Final Warning?
Season 27 Episode 12 - Aired 4/2/1990
Horizon presents the real story of seismic neglect and the failure of the San Francisco city government to protect its citizens.
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#13 - The Sharpest Shot of the Universe
Season 27 Episode 13 - Aired 4/9/1990
In this episode, Horizon looks at the Hubble space telescope, hailed as the greatest advance in astronomy since Galileo.
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#14 - The Company of Ants and Bees
Season 27 Episode 14 - Aired 4/23/1990
What can we learn from insects? Professor James Gould explains on Horizon that the human society may be able to predict their own future based on the society structure of ants and bees.
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#15 - The Intelligent Island
Season 27 Episode 15 - Aired 4/30/1990
This Horizon documentary looks at the radical transformations in the Singapore society as its technology extends into monitoring, logging, and linking up all businesses, information, and aspects of life on computer systems. The country's ultimate plan is to link the entire population electronically through the world's most advanced videotext system called Teleview. The report raises the question of what type of society this may create and also the political implications of such a system.
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#16 - Legacy of a Volcano
Season 27 Episode 16 - Aired 5/14/1990
Horizon looks at the area around Mt. St. Helens 10 years after the volcanic eruption that devastated more 500 square kilometres of forest land in just minutes.
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#17 - Do Cows Make You Mad?
Season 27 Episode 17 - Aired 5/21/1990
This episode of Horizon is about BSE transmitted in cattle feed and causing the fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome in humans.
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#18 - The Child Mothers
Season 27 Episode 18 - Aired 6/4/1990
Horizon investigates how teenage pregnancy is now posing massive health and social problems in many societies.
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#19 - Signs of Life
Season 27 Episode 19 - Aired 6/11/1990
Horizon examines the possibility of scientists, either intentionally or unintentionally, creating living forms which could enjoy an independent existence, initially confined to computers and telephone networks, and in the form of computer viruses.
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#20 - AIDS: A Quest for a Cure
Season 27 Episode 20 - Aired 6/25/1990
Horizon investigates new breakthroughs in the scientific study, analysis, and reproduction of cells and their compounds, which may lead to the development of a cure for the AIDS virus.
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The Best Episodes of Horizon Season 27
Every episode of Horizon Season 27 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Horizon Season 27!
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Season 27 Ratings Summary
"Oil Spill" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 27. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/8/1990. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Medicine 2000".