NaN/100 votes#1 - An Ingenious Man - Sir H. John Baker
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1968
Horizon reports on Prof. Sir John Baker who is a distinguished British engineer, tracing his career beginning from his early work on airships.
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#2 - Man's Best Friend
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/30/1968
This episode covers interviews with surgeons and research workers discussing the need for animal experimentation in medical work.
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#3 - Once a Junkie
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 2/13/1968
In England addicts get their heroin, and often cocaine, on the National Health Service: our system has prevented the growth of a drug-based criminal world, but Americans say that our system only worked when we did not have a serious addiction problem. Now we do. Does our present system make it too easy for the casual drug experimenter to become a hard-core addict? Is there anything we can learn from the American situation?
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#4 - Towns, Traffic and Tomorrow
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 2/27/1968
Horizon explores the problem of increasing traffic in Britain.
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#5 - The Man Makers
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 3/12/1968
In this episode, Horizon looks into the advances in medical science.
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#6 - Man in Search of Himself
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/26/1968
This episode presents the view by G. M. Carstairs, social psychiatrist, about the pleasures and problems of life in Britain in 1968.
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#7 - Investigating Murder
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 4/9/1968
Horizon looks into modern methods of crime investigation.
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#8 - The Equation of Murder
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 5/7/1968
Horizon follows reporter Paul Ferris as he examines the causes and motitives for murder.
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#9 - The Lindemann Enigma
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 9/12/1968
This is the story of the life and career of Winston Churchill's scientific advisor, Lord Cherwell, during World War II.
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#10 - From Field to Factory
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 9/19/1968
Horizon explores "factory farming" techniques for chickens and other livestock.
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#11 - Comfort on Aging
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 9/26/1968
In this episode, Dr. Alex Comfort looks at the scientific evidence for old age and the problems caused by ageing.
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#12 - Experiments in War
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 10/3/1968
Horizon investigates how science is used to enhance weapons of war, tactics, and strategy.
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#13 - Medecine in Russia
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 10/10/1968
In 1917, Russia had fewer than twenty doctors for every million of her people. Today, the figure is over 2,000: almost twice as many as in this country. The organisational changes that were necessary to build a Health Service in the country with the largest share of the earth's surface were vast. The resulting system is very different from ours.
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#14 - African Medicine
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 10/17/1968
In this episode, Horizon looks into controversial medicine practices in Nigeria.
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#15 - The Broken Bridge
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 10/24/1968
This episode by Horizon is about Irene Kassorlas, who's new treatment for autism has produced positive results with mute children.
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#16 - Children Without Words
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 10/31/1968
Horizon reports on speech and comprehension disorders in children, and how to educate them.
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#17 - The Computer Revolution
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 11/7/1968
Horizon explores how computers are changing our way of life.
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#18 - Doctor's Dilemma
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 11/14/1968
Horizon reports on the effects of the birth control pill on the body and how the pill can effect the changes in glucose metabolism.
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#19 - In the Matter of Dr. Alfred Nobel
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 11/21/1968
This is the fictional drama about the evidence for and against the charges that Dr. Alfred Noble misused his invention of dynamite.
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#20 - Wheels Within Wheels
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 11/28/1968
Horizon explores the possibility that our civilization as a whole can be viewed as a pattern based on the wheel.
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#21 - Black Man, White Science
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 12/5/1968
In this episode, Horizon investigates the study of science by african americans.
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#22 - The Hidden World
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 12/12/1968
In this episode, Horizon reports on the exploration and survey of the oceans of the world.
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#23 - The Talgai Skull
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 12/19/1968
Prof. N.W.G. MacIntosh investigates the origin of the Talgai Skull found in Australia in 1886.
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#24 - Phantasmagoria or The Story of the Magic Lantern
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 12/24/1968
In this episode of Horizon, Michael Balfour invites us to share in the mystery and magic of the "Magic Lantern".
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"An Ingenious Man - Sir H. John Baker" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 5. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/2/1968. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Man's Best Friend".