This episode of Horizon documents the sources, uses, and properties of the element mercury and examines its role in modern society.

An Element of Mystery

Digging Up the Future

Air Crash Detective

Horizon examines sources of infection that have, and could still, cause epidemics in Britain.

Epidemic

This episode of Horizon features Immanuel Velikovsky and his theories about the solar system.

Worlds in Collision

Horizon examines the doctrines and military strategies of the rival alliances of NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries.

The Military Necessity

Horizon looks into the problem of deafness in Britain.

The Curtain of Silence

A jewel robbery, a hit-and-run, and the Case of the Skeleton in the Sand Dunes illustrate the work of forensic scientists and the police they assist. How do they discover the characteristics of an individual bullet as it enters a body? How are blood stains identified or microscopic flakes of paint? How do voiceprints and lie-detectors work? The crime labs of Britain and America have different priorities and different techniques. Each can learn from the other. They also have different success rates. Britain's is currently better. But how long can we hold out against a rapidly rising tide of drugs and violence? What can we learn from American experience?

Crime Lab

How easy is it to get sterilized? Should there be abortion on demand? Do we need a free contraceptive service? Our average family size is 2.5. To avoid a social and population crisis it needs to be 2.1. Aberdeen, one of the few cities to have a fully comprehensive family planning service, has already successfully cut its birth rate. The Government plan to withdraw this kind of free service. But, in the light of Aberdeen's success, should the Government be made to reconsider?

When the Breeding Has to Stop

In this documentary by Horizon, we look at chemical warfare and the associated environmental problems that have given science a bad name.

Science Is Dead, Long Live Science

Horizon explores how to make the future livable and prevent the effects of urban sprawl.

...And Where Will the Children Play?

Horizon explains acupuncture theories and examines its validity in modern medicine.

Acupuncture: A Chinese Puzzle

Horizon illustrates the Circadian Cycle of your body clock as it relates to physical and mental efficiency.

What Time Is Your Body?

In this episode, Horizon investigates the chances of survival and chances of a normal life for babies who are born underweight.

Survival of the Weakest

This Horizon documentary shows the work of the Cambridge Coral Starfish Research Group off of Port Sudan in the Red Sea.

Red Sea Coral and the Crown of Thorns

In this report, Horizon studies the problem of backache and investigates some remarkable new spine research.

Lumbered... with Back-Ache!

Horizon covers Heathrow Airport in England and in particular, the work which is being done to make it safe.

Airport

Horizon looks at the phenomena of memory and some recent discoveries about it made by scientists.

Do You Remember the Memory Man?

Horizon investigates the various ways of dealing with the growing problem of garbage.

What a Waste!

In the episode, Horizon investigates modern intensive farming methods.

The Laws of the Land

Horizon takes a realistic look at the new ideas and technology threatening Britain's railway system.

Do We Really Need the Railways?

In this Horizon documentary, it deals with the expansion of television in Britain and the USA, especially with the growth of cable television.

The Telly of Tomorrow?

In this episode of Horizon, you will find that many people suffer chronic pain and yet others cannot feel anything.

How Does It Hurt?

This report by Horizon examines the work of Sir Alister Hardy who has set up a research unit to examine religious experience.

A Scientist Looks at Religion

Horizon presents a portrait of Konrad Lorenz and a review of his career and personal interests.

In Search of Konrad Lorenz

This episode of Horizon takes a look at the medical and educational treatment of spastics in Britain.

Stretch Up Tall

Horizon presents a documentary on the developments in botany resulting in new flowers and the mass production of plants from single cells.

Gilding the Lily

In this episode of Horizon, Prof. John Taylor of the London University looks at the effects of gravity and the forces it exerts on the universe.

The Black Holes of Gravity

Horizon investigates the plight of the Pygmies, on the verge of extinction as a racial group.

What's so Big About Us?

This Horizon documentary is a biography of the Danish nuclear physicist, Nils Bohr, and his efforts to internationally control atomic energy.

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

Horizon looks at the rise in the number of people who smoke and the real health risks.

Carry on Smoking

In this report, Horizon investigates why airplanes crash and shows accident investigators at work analyzing a film of an actual crash.

Can we ever hope to wipe out diseases like influenza and small-pox? Will our weather get better - or worse? Is it possible to grow anything useful on large areas of moorland in this country? Diseases, climate and soil structure alter so slowly that patterns in them can only be found by studying how they've changed over hundreds and thousands of years. Dating methods, which slot all the changes into place, are the most important scientific tools for analyzing the past. And the news they give can advise - and warn - us about the future.

Horizon reports on the inhabitants islands east of New Guinea who have evolved a system of intercommunication called the Kula.

Kula, a Reason for Giving

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

An Element of Mystery

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