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The Best Episodes of Horizon Season 6

Every episode of Horizon Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Horizon Season 6!

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two

Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Inside Every Fat Man" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 6. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/2/1969. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "If Only They Could Speak".

  • Inside Every Fat Man
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    #1 - Inside Every Fat Man

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1969

    Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.

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  • If Only They Could Speak
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    #2 - If Only They Could Speak

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/1969

    A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.

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  • The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye
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    #3 - The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/1969

    Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.

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  • The Years of the Locust
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    #4 - The Years of the Locust

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/1969

    In this episode, Horizon reports on how in the last 2 years, the desert locust has been breeding in Southern Arabia by the Red Sea.

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  • The Gifted Child
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    #5 - The Gifted Child

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/1969

    Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.

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  • The Last of the Polymaths
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    #6 - The Last of the Polymaths

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/1969

    This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.

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  • Music and the Mind
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    #7 - Music and the Mind

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/1969

    Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.

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  • Report on V.D.
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    #8 - Report on V.D.

    Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 2/20/1969

    This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.

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  • Extra-Sensory Perception
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    #9 - Extra-Sensory Perception

    Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 2/27/1969

    In scientific circles extra-sensory perception is a subject which has never failed to arouse controversy and skepticism. Cecil King, having spent a lifetime in Fleet Street, discusses, with due caution, a subject which he believes might be of primary importance to scientists in the coming century.

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  • The Drift from Science
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    #10 - The Drift from Science

    Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/1969

    This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.

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  • Powers of Persuasion
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    #11 - Powers of Persuasion

    Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 3/13/1969

    This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The View from Space
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    #12 - The View from Space

    Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/1969

    Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.

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  • The Unborn Patient
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    #13 - The Unborn Patient

    Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 3/27/1969

    Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.

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  • The Physicist in the Kitchen
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    #14 - The Physicist in the Kitchen

    Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 4/3/1969

    Nicholas Kurti, Professor of Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, specializes in the field of low temperature science. He is acknowledged among his friends as an expert in the kitchen.

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  • King Solomon's Garden
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    #15 - King Solomon's Garden

    Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 4/10/1969

    This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.

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  • Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow
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    #16 - Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 4/24/1969

    Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.

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  • Shark
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    #17 - Shark

    Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 5/1/1969

    In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.

    Director: N/A

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  • Technology and Self-Determination
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    #18 - Technology and Self-Determination

    Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 5/15/1969

    Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.

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  • After Apollo
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    #19 - After Apollo

    Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 5/22/1969

    The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.

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  • Discovery
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    #20 - Discovery

    Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 5/29/1969

    Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.

    Director: N/A

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  • Machines and People
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    #21 - Machines and People

    Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 6/5/1969

    The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.

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  • Science on Safari
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    #22 - Science on Safari

    Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 9/15/1969

    The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.

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  • A True Madness
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    #23 - A True Madness

    Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 9/22/1969

    Schizophrenia is an unsolved mystery of modern medicine. Horizon looks at some of the possible explanations and their relevance not only to schizophrenics but to the mystery of the human mind.

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  • Problems of Pain
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    #24 - Problems of Pain

    Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 9/29/1969

    In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.

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  • Four Fast Legs and a Nose
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    #25 - Four Fast Legs and a Nose

    Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 10/6/1969

    Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.

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