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The Best Episodes of Horizon Season 18

Every episode of Horizon Season 18 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Horizon Season 18!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Horizon Season 18 Episode 1 - Spend and Prosper
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    #1 - Spend and Prosper

    S18:E1

    Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Horizon Season 18 Episode 2 - A Whole New Medicine
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    #2 - A Whole New Medicine

    S18:E2

    This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Horizon Season 18 Episode 3 - The Qualyub Project
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    #3 - The Qualyub Project

    S18:E3

    Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Horizon Season 18 Episode 4 - No One Will Take Me Seriously
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    #4 - No One Will Take Me Seriously

    S18:E4

    Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Horizon Season 18 Episode 5 - Living with Dying
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    #5 - Living with Dying

    S18:E5

    Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Horizon Season 18 Episode 6 - A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb
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    #6 - A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb

    S18:E6

    In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Horizon Season 18 Episode 7 - Who Will Deliver Your Baby?
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    #7 - Who Will Deliver Your Baby?

    S18:E7

    Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Horizon Season 18 Episode 8 - West of Bangalore
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    #8 - West of Bangalore

    S18:E8

    A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Horizon Season 18 Episode 9 - Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts
    8.6/10(154 votes)

    #9 - Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts

    S18:E9

    Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Horizon Season 18 Episode 10 - Hello Universe!
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    #10 - Hello Universe!

    S18:E10

    Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Horizon Season 18 Episode 11 - Voices from Silent Hands
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    #11 - Voices from Silent Hands

    S18:E11

    Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Horizon Season 18 Episode 12 - Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
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    #12 - Did Darwin Get It Wrong?

    S18:E12

    In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Horizon Season 18 Episode 13 - East of Bombay
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    #13 - East of Bombay

    S18:E13

    This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are common killers in Indian communities. Also, a report on Salubai, one of these native health workers and her work at Kamkhed in Western India.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Horizon Season 18 Episode 14 - Resolution on Saturn - The Rings
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    #14 - Resolution on Saturn - The Rings

    S18:E14

    Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Horizon Season 18 Episode 15 - Resolution on Saturn - The Moons
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    #15 - Resolution on Saturn - The Moons

    S18:E15

    Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Horizon Season 18 Episode 16 - Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
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    #16 - Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

    S18:E16

    In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near where they live.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Horizon Season 18 Episode 17 - The Hunt for the Legion Killer
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    #17 - The Hunt for the Legion Killer

    S18:E17

    Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Horizon Season 18 Episode 18 - Breaking in Children
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    #18 - Breaking in Children

    S18:E18

    In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Horizon Season 18 Episode 19 - The Grid
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    #19 - The Grid

    S18:E19

    Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierce competition of the French and Italian racings teams by finding ways around new rulings to make their cars first on the grid.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Horizon Season 18 Episode 20 - Butterflies or Barley?
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    #20 - Butterflies or Barley?

    S18:E20

    Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Horizon Season 18 Episode 21 - Science for the People
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    #21 - Science for the People

    S18:E21

    Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical processing plant from the UK and computers from the USA when they have a quarter of the world's scientists and still give science and research the highest priority.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Horizon Season 18 Episode 22 - The Race to Ruin
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    #22 - The Race to Ruin

    S18:E22

    This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for the extensive space defense system to match the Russians based on a misconception of the USSR war effort from space?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Horizon Season 18 Episode 23 - Death of the Dinosaurs
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    #23 - Death of the Dinosaurs

    S18:E23

    Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Horizon Season 18 Episode 24 - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
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    #24 - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

    S18:E24

    Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965. In this documentary he talks about his motivations to be a scientist and a teacher of science.

    Director:Christopher Sykes
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Horizon Season 18 Episode 25 - The Cornucopia
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    #25 - The Cornucopia

    S18:E25

    Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies which leads to the creation of overproduction of agricultural products. Do they need to reform the policy?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 18 Ratings Summary

"Spend and Prosper" is the best rated episode of "Horizon" season 18. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/5/1981. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "A Whole New Medicine".