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The Best Episodes of Horizon Season 28

Every episode of Horizon Season 28 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Horizon Season 28!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Horizon Season 28 Episode 1 - Sudden Death
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    #1 - Sudden Death

    S28:E1

    Documentary considering the nature of sudden death, the effects of coronary heart disease and the part they play.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Horizon Season 28 Episode 2 - Keen as Mustard
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    #2 - Keen as Mustard

    S28:E2

    This Horizon episode tells the story of the top secret experiments carried out to test the effects of mustard gas.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Horizon Season 28 Episode 3 - Smokers Can Harm Your Health
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    #3 - Smokers Can Harm Your Health

    S28:E3

    Horizon investigates the case against passive smoking and reveals new evidence of its danger.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Horizon Season 28 Episode 4 - Coming In from the Cold
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    #4 - Coming In from the Cold

    S28:E4

    Horizon reports on the new arms verification industry emerging due to the new arms control treaties.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Horizon Season 28 Episode 5 - Small Problems with the Mirror
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    #5 - Small Problems with the Mirror

    S28:E5

    Horizon follows astronomer's efforts to rescue the Hubble space telescope and restore its original planned performance.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Horizon Season 28 Episode 6 - Two Weeks to Save the Earth
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    #6 - Two Weeks to Save the Earth

    S28:E6

    Looks at the work of Earthwatch, and some of the many people who spend their holidays contributing to learning about the planet by helping on prehistoric digs, recording fish noises, tracking rodents, measuring grass an leaves and counting insects in places all over the world, often suffering much discomfort and boredom.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Horizon Season 28 Episode 7 - California Dreaming
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    #7 - California Dreaming

    S28:E7

    This Horizon documentary presents the US auto industry's response to clean-up the air in Los Angeles, California by the year 2007.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Horizon Season 28 Episode 8 - The Day the Earth Melted
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    #8 - The Day the Earth Melted

    S28:E8

    This episode of Horizon examines 20 years of research which has led to a new theory on how the earth's crust was made.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Horizon Season 28 Episode 9 - The Curse of Karash
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    #9 - The Curse of Karash

    S28:E9

    Looks at the phenomenon of the outbreaks of a lethal kidney disease amongst groups of people scattered around an area of the Balkans, covering Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria, over the past 30 years.It considers the attempts and theories of scientists from all these countries over the years to find the cause of the disease.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Horizon Season 28 Episode 10 - Playing at Noah
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    #10 - Playing at Noah

    S28:E10

    This Horizon interview presents Dr. Ulysses Seal who believes the "frozen zoo" concept is the best way to save vanishing species for the future generations.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Horizon Season 28 Episode 11 - Cashing in on Paradise
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    #11 - Cashing in on Paradise

    S28:E11

    This Horizon episode considers the pros and cons of "ecotourism" and the effects of tourism on the environment. The coral reefs of areas of Belize are suffering already from the effects tourists coming to the area. Rain forests and ape sanctuary areas employing the local community are also becoming a danger to the delicate environments.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Horizon Season 28 Episode 12 - The Terracotta Time Machine
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    #12 - The Terracotta Time Machine

    S28:E12

    This episode of Horizon explores the Natural History Museum and its philosophy, both past and present. We look at some of the recent innovations that have been introduced in the past few years. The recent director of the museum, Dr. Neil Chalmers, justifies his policies, restructuring, and the academics. The scientists, who are adversely affected by the policies, air their own worries and concerns.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Horizon Season 28 Episode 13 - Measuring the Roof of the World
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    #13 - Measuring the Roof of the World

    S28:E13

    Horizon examines the problems and cartography involved in mapping mountains such as Mount Everest. They follow the history of of mapping from those surveys conducted by mountaineering expeditions and early explorers, to modern mapping techniques using planes and satellites. Horizon also considers the startling news that K2 may actually be the world's tallest mountain according to recent satellite calculations.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Horizon Season 28 Episode 14 - The First Americans
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    #14 - The First Americans

    S28:E14

    Horizon looks at archaeologist's new theories surrounding the population of the New World over 11,000 years ago

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Horizon Season 28 Episode 15 - Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus
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    #15 - Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus

    S28:E15

    Documentary following the clean-up operation at Chernobyl and the elite team of Soviet scientists working in areas of radiation that would be considered lethal in the West, whilst they hunt for missing fuel, uranium and plutonium, anxious that these could cause a second accident.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Horizon Season 28 Episode 16 - Colonising Cyberspace
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    #16 - Colonising Cyberspace

    S28:E16

    Horizon presents a documentary on how virtual reality can make humans feel as if they are present in the computer simulated artificial world. What is the future of all this powerful, seductive technology?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Horizon Season 28 Episode 17 - Emerging Viruses
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    #17 - Emerging Viruses

    S28:E17

    In this report, Horizon follows a group of eminent scientists who believe we have become too complacent about infectious diseases.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Horizon Season 28 Episode 18 - Camelford - A Bitter Aftertaste
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    #18 - Camelford - A Bitter Aftertaste

    S28:E18

    Horizon explores the Camelford disaster, in which aluminium sulphate was accidentally added to drinking water in Cornwall in 1988.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Horizon Season 28 Episode 19 - Of Big Bangs, Stick Men and Galactic Holes
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    #19 - Of Big Bangs, Stick Men and Galactic Holes

    S28:E19

    Several astronomers and scientists explore the concepts of "hot/cold dark space" and whether or not the "Big Bang" theory is actually correct, as well as considering the structures of galaxies.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Horizon Season 28 Episode 20 - Food For Thought
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    #20 - Food For Thought

    S28:E20

    This story by Horizon looks at the expanding and controversial area of "smart drugs".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Horizon Season 28 Episode 21 - The Long Road to the West
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    #21 - The Long Road to the West

    S28:E21

    In this Horizon episode, we look at the problems facing the Carl Zeiss optics company of Jena and other companies in the scientific sector of the former Eastern block countries. Following the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War, harsh economic conditions and the lack of scientific progress over the preceding decades in particular are explored.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Horizon Season 28 Episode 22 - Half Hearted About Semi-Skimmed
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    #22 - Half Hearted About Semi-Skimmed

    S28:E22

    Horizon examines the social and scientific issues around the cholesterol debate.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Horizon Season 28 Episode 23 - T-Rex Exposed
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    #23 - T-Rex Exposed

    S28:E23

    Considers some of the different theories surrounding the Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur, and other members of the same family, and shows how calculations about size, speed, weight, etc. are made from skeletons, some of them recently discovered in Montana. Scientists also use the latest x-ray/scanning techniques to examine skulls and bones for information.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 28 Ratings Summary

"Sudden Death" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 28. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/7/1991. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Keen as Mustard".