1985 (1985)
Episodes: 16
Star Cast:
Episodes List
Ep.1 Colourful Notions
Air Date: 1985-01-07
Documentary about colour perception based on the theories of Dr. Edwin Land, which oppose the long-held three-receptor theory of colour vision
Ep.2 A World of Their Own
Air Date: 1985-01-14
Horizon takes a look at consultant psychiatrists.
Ep.3 Decoding Danebury
Air Date: 1985-01-21
Horizon looks at the way modern archaeologists extract information from a site dig.
Ep.4 A Mission to Heal
Air Date: 1985-01-28
This Horizon episode is about a hospital in the African country of Kenya where the medical staff tells of a new approach to health care among the Pokot tribe.
Ep.5 Mystery of the Left Hand
Air Date: 1985-02-04
In this episode, Horizon explores the characteristics of left-handed people.
Ep.6 The Theatre of War
Air Date: 1985-02-11
Horizon examines new military technology which will come to dominate the battlefields of the future.
Ep.7 The Careful Predator
Air Date: 1985-02-25
This episode of Horizon is about the controversial policy in African nation of Zimbabwe of encouraging villagers to allow wild animals back onto their land.
Ep.8 What Einstein Never Knew
Air Date: 1985-03-04
This documentary by Horizon attempts to explain the advances in physics in the search for the ultimate equation that explains the meaning of life, the universe, and everything else in existence.
Ep.9 Eurekaaargh!
Air Date: 1985-03-11
Horizon brings you a report by Robert Symes who offers ten golden guidelines on how to be a successful inventor.
Ep.10 Careering On
Air Date: 1985-03-18
This is a Horizon follow-up report on the careers of seven British teenagers studying Science 'O' levels back in 1978.
Ep.11 How to Film the Impossible
Air Date: 1985-03-25
This episode of Horizon looks at how the world's best special effects technicians create some of Hollywood's most spectacular film scenes.
Ep.12 The Food Allergy War
Air Date: 1985-04-01
Horizon investigates how food allergy has developed from the 1950's to the present.
Ep.13 The Goddess of the Earth
Air Date: 1985-04-15
Horizon examines a hypothesis that life itself manipulates the planet to enhance it's own survival.
Ep.14 IRAS - The Supercooled Eye
Air Date: 1985-04-22
This Horizon documentary examines the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) which has detected evidence of planetary systems around distant stars.
Ep.15 A Prize Discovery
Air Date: 1985-04-29
Horizon reports on the current medical treatment of Malaria and Leukemia.
Ep.16 The Wrong Stuff
Air Date: 1985-05-13
Eighty per cent of all crashes are caused by 'human error'. Finding out what that means in terms of human behaviour has been called the last great frontier in aviation safety.