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The Best Episodes of Horizon Season 33

Every episode of Horizon Season 33 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Horizon Season 33!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Horizon Season 33 Episode 1 - The Butchers of Boxgrove
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    #1 - The Butchers of Boxgrove

    S33:E1

    Investigates the case of the "Boxgrove Man". Follows archaeologist Mark Roberts who tries to piece together the history of the first Englishman, from a shin bone nearly 500,000 years old, discovered in Boxgrove in Sussex.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Horizon Season 33 Episode 2 - Fermat's Last Theorem
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Fermat's Last Theorem

    S33:E2

    Tells the story of mathematician Andrew Wiles who has made it his life's work to solve the puzzle of Fermat's last theorem that has baffled minds for three centuries.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Horizon Season 33 Episode 3 - A Miracle for Cancer ?
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    #3 - A Miracle for Cancer ?

    S33:E3

    Examines the latest research aimed at conquering cancer. Includes research into vaccines for prostate cancer and skin cancer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Horizon Season 33 Episode 4 - Nature's Numbers
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    #4 - Nature's Numbers

    S33:E4

    Follows a group of biologists Conservation International who take a pragmatic approach to what species can be saved.They travel to the Bolivian rainforest to assess missing species.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Horizon Season 33 Episode 5 - The Gene Race
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    #5 - The Gene Race

    S33:E5

    Follows two teams of researchers, in Britain and USA as they use radically different genetic techniques in the race to find an effective treatment against cystic fibrosis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Horizon Season 33 Episode 6 - Masters of the Ionosphere
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    #6 - Masters of the Ionosphere

    S33:E6

    Recounts the history of scientific attempts from Marconi onwards to understand the atmospheric layer, known as the ionosphere. Discusses interest shown by the US Military in the region which has led to the establishment of HAARP (High Altitude Auroral Research Project) which will beam energy directly into the ionosphere.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Horizon Season 33 Episode 7 - Assault on the Male (revisited)
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    #7 - Assault on the Male (revisited)

    S33:E7

    Are changes in modern living increasing levels of oestrogen and threatening males of different species, from alligators to humans?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Horizon Season 33 Episode 8 - Death by Design
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    #8 - Death by Design

    S33:E8

    In this Horizon documentary, we look at the notion that each cell in our body is programmed to die. Understanding this concept has major implications for research into disease.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Horizon Season 33 Episode 9 - The Planet Hunters
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    #9 - The Planet Hunters

    S33:E9

    Follows astronomers from Manchester, Switzerland and California as they search for planets with liquid water on them, the prerequisite for life

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Horizon Season 33 Episode 10 - Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update)
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    #10 - Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update)

    S33:E10

    In this episode of Horizon, which is a follow-up to the 1991 documentary, we follow a group of soviet scientists on a suicide mission as they search for the missing nuclear fuel inside the remains of the nuclear reactor 4.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Horizon Season 33 Episode 11 - Fallout from Chernobyl
    6.5/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Fallout from Chernobyl

    S33:E11

    Reports on the work by scientists Dr Keith Baverstock and Sir Dillwyn Williams to confirm that the outbreak of thyroid cancer in children in Belarus and the Ukraine was due to the Chernobyl disaster.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Horizon Season 33 Episode 12 - TV is Dead, Long Live TV
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    #12 - TV is Dead, Long Live TV

    S33:E12

    In this documentary, Horizon compares the future of television with the years of experimentation before the first BBC broadcasts in 1936.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Horizon Season 33 Episode 13 - Aliens from Mars
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    #13 - Aliens from Mars

    S33:E13

    An investigation into claims that life once existed on Mars. NASA scientists and their critics discuss the fossils discovered in a small meteoric rock in Antarctica earlier in 1996.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Horizon Season 33 Episode 14 - Living Death
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    #14 - Living Death

    S33:E14

    Looks at new treatments for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Focuses on the case of Geoffrey Wildsmith who was misdiagnosed as being PVS. He had awoken from his coma but was totally paralysed and unable to communicate. After two years he was transferred and it was found he could communicate by using a buzzer connected to a highly sensitive pressure-switch.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Horizon Season 33 Episode 15 - The Time Lords
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    #15 - The Time Lords

    S33:E15

    An investigation into claims by researchers that time travel is not only theoretically possible but is already happening.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Horizon Season 33 Episode 16 - Noah's Flood
    7.3/10(8 votes)

    #16 - Noah's Flood

    S33:E16

    Follows the work of geologists Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman, who for twenty five years have been investigating evidence for the location of the biblical flood and Noah's Ark.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 33 Ratings Summary

"The Butchers of Boxgrove" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 33. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/8/1996. This episode is rated 7.0 points higher than the second-best, "Fermat's Last Theorem".