The WORST episodes of Horizon

#1 - 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.

#2 - A Matter of Self-Defense

Season 1974 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1974

This episode of Horizon explains how our body fights infections and cancers and brings us up-to-date on recent research in immunology.

#3 - 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.

#4 - Digging Up the Future

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

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - Bird Brain - The Mystery of Bird Navigation

Season 1974 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/1974

This episode of Horizon is about various experiments on migratory birds and homing pigeons to try and discover how they navigate.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - The Laws of the Land

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

In the episode, Horizon investigates modern intensive farming methods.

#20 - This Yankee Dodge Beats Mesmerism Hollow

Season 1974 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/29/1974

Horizon looks back at the discovery and the development of anesthesia.

#21 - The Race for the Double Helix

Season 1974 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/8/1974

This documentary of Horizon reports on the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 by Dr. Francis Crick and Prof. James Watson.

#22 - Hills of Promise

Season 1974 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/1/1974

In this report, Horizon presents the state of hill farming in Wales.

#23 - Who Needs Skills?

Season 1974 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/24/1974

In this episode of Horizon, you learn about transferring the basis of modern industry production from human skills to computer programmed machines.

#24 - The Secrets of Sleep

Season 1974 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/10/1974

Horizon investigates the subject of sleep in Britain and the USA.

#25 - Search for Life

Season 1974 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/10/1974

Documentary about the origins of life which attempts to find out what happened in the one billion years before fossil evidence begins.