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

The Last of the Polymaths

Music and the Mind

The Gifted Child

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

Inside Every Fat Man

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

If Only They Could Speak

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

The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye

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.

The Years of the Locust

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

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

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

Report on V.D.

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.

Extra-Sensory Perception

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

The Drift from Science

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

Powers of Persuasion

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

The View from Space

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

The Unborn Patient

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.

The Physicist in the Kitchen

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

King Solomon's Garden

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

Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow

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

Shark

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

Technology and Self-Determination

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

After Apollo

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

Discovery

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

Machines and People

Science on Safari

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.

A True Madness

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

Problems of Pain

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

Four Fast Legs and a Nose

Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.

Father of the Man

In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.

Master of the Microscope

Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.

C.E.R.N.

The props for this programme are pistols, muskets and, above all, explosives. For 30 years now these are what Colonel Brian Shaw, marksman and lecturer in chemistry, has been using in his now famous lecture on explosives. He gave it once again for Horizon before an invited audience at University College, London.

Snap, Crackle and Bang

A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.

Cancer Now

For some time now rhinos have been disturbing the workers in the Tanzanian sugar plantation and ripping open the plastic water pipes to get at the water. These incidents, and the hunting of the rhinos by helicopter, are typical of the increasing conflict between wildlife and man for land in East Africa.

There's a Rhino in My Sugar

Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.

Fit to Live?

Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.

Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs

Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.

How Much Do You Drink?

Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.

A Game of War

Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.

Bread

Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.

For the Safety of Mankind

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

The Last of the Polymaths

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