The BEST episodes of Horizon season 1973

#1 - The Black Holes of Gravity

Season 1973 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/15/1973

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.

#2 - Do We Really Need the Railways?

Season 1973 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/14/1973

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

#3 - The Telly of Tomorrow

Season 1973 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/21/1973

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

#4 - The Rat Man

Season 1973 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/28/1973

A dramatised reconstruction of Dr Freud's treatment of an obsessive neurotic who is frustrated, suicidal and terrified that rats are going to eat his father and girlfriend.

#5 - How Does It Hurt?

Season 1973 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/5/1973

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

#6 - A Scientist Looks at Religion

Season 1973 - Episode 22 - Aired 8/9/1973

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

#7 - In Search of Konrad Lorenz

Season 1973 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/24/1973

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

#8 - Stretch Up Tall

Season 1973 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/1/1973

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

#9 - Gilding the Lily

Season 1973 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/8/1973

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

#10 - The Laws of the Land

Season 1973 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/7/1973

In the episode, Horizon investigates modern intensive farming methods.

#11 - What's so Big About Us?

Season 1973 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/22/1973

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

#12 - The Steadfast Tin Soldier

Season 1973 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/29/1973

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

#13 - Carry on Smoking

Season 1973 - Episode 29 - Aired 11/5/1973

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

#14 - Air Crash Detective

Season 1973 - Episode 30 - Aired 11/26/1973

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

#15 - An Element of Mystery

Season 1973 - Episode 31 - Aired 12/3/1973

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

#16 - Digging Up the Future

Season 1973 - Episode 32 - Aired 12/17/1973

#17 - Kula, a Reason for Giving

Season 1973 - Episode 33 - Aired 12/24/1973

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

#18 - Epidemic

Season 1973 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1973

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

#19 - What a Waste!

Season 1973 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/24/1973

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

#20 - Do You Remember the Memory Man?

Season 1973 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/17/1973

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

#21 - Airport

Season 1973 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/3/1973

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

#22 - Lumbered With Back-Ache!

Season 1973 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/26/1973

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

#23 - Red Sea Coral and the Crown of Thorns

Season 1973 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/12/1973

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

#24 - Survival of the Weakest

Season 1973 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/5/1973

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

#25 - What Time is Your Body?

Season 1973 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/22/1973

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