The WORST episodes of Horizon

#1 - 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.

#2 - Never Too Late to Learn

Season 1974 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/1974

Horizon reports on the British Open University and how it operates.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - Digging Up the Future

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

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - The Great Fish Hunt

Season 1974 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1974

Horizon investigates how Britain has hunted fish in the past and how improved fish catching techniques have severely reduced fish stocks.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - 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.

#20 - A Noah's Ark for Europe

Season 1974 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/13/1974

Horizon investigates captive animal breeding to prevent extinction of animal species in the wild.

#21 - Mines, Minerals and Men

Season 1974 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/22/1974

Horizon explores the technological and economic reasons for the mining revival in Britain.

#22 - The Immigrant Doctors

Season 1974 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/15/1974

In this episode, Horizon reports on the rising number of imigrant doctors working in the National Health System of Britain.

#23 - 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.

#24 - Hills of Promise

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

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

#25 - 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.