- 1 Are You a Racist?
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Horizon presents a documentary about how white racists and black victims of racism volunteered to spend time in an isolated house living and talking about their prejudices.
Air Date: 1986-01-06
- 2 Genesis
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This Horizon episode is about the discovery of a molecular key which may literally unlock the mystery of life for all creatures.
Air Date: 1986-01-13
- 3 Bitter Cold
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Horizon presents a documentary on scientists who take themselves to Antarctica in 1980 to act as physical and mental guinea pigs.
Air Date: 1986-01-20
- 4 The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe
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Horizon explores the myth about the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin.
Air Date: 1986-01-27
- 5 Outbreak: The Microbe Masters the Mould
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In this episode, Horizon explores the question of when antibiotics were first developed it seemed infectious disease might be eliminated, so what has gone wrong?
Air Date: 1986-02-03
- 6 The Wrong Stuff
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This report by Horizon looks inside the airline cockpit and examines the alarming fact that 4 out of 5 crashes are caused by human error.
Air Date: 1986-02-10
- 7 Science...Fiction?
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Horizon investigates the truths of science and it's theories.
Air Date: 1986-02-17
- 8 The Children of Eve
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Horizon explores at the latest discoveries about just where modern man came from.
Air Date: 1986-02-24
- 9 The New Face of Leprosy
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This episode of Horizon documents leprosy in the USA and India with a focus on medical developments for it's cure and control.
Air Date: 1986-03-03
- 10 Hi-Tech a la Francaise
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Horizon investigates the remarkable technological transformation of France over the last 25 years.
Air Date: 1986-03-10
- 11 In the Wake of HMS Sheffield
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Will the new strategies and weapons introduced because of the Falklands war be a match for the next generation of weapons? Horizon presents this documentary to answer that question.
Air Date: 1986-03-17
- 12 AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus
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Horizon looks at the virus that causes AIDS and the research into vaccines and drugs being developed to counteract the devastating disease of the immune system.
Air Date: 1986-03-24
- 13 The Case of the Frozen Addicts
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In this documentary, Horizon reports on how doctors in America found that addicts using designer drugs developed Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms.
Air Date: 1986-04-07
- 14 Nice Guys Finish First
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In the interview by Horizon, Richard Dawkins discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favours co-operative behaviour, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the prisoner's dilemma game.
Air Date: 1986-04-14
- 15 The Men Who Bottled a Cow
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This is an interesting Horizon presentation on decoys that look and smell like cows to the tsetse fly who carry a disease fatal to farm animals.
Air Date: 1986-04-21
- 16 Twice Five Plus the Wings of a Bird
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Horizon researches how we acquire mathematical abilities in the first place.
Air Date: 1986-04-28
- 17 What Makes an Animal Smart?
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This report by Horizon takes a look at the instinctive side of intelligence in animals that shows us that we owe more to instinct than we may care to think.
Air Date: 1986-05-12
- 18 A Handful of Sugar With a Pinch of Salt
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Horizon presents a simple, but effective, cure for diarrea in young children; sugar and salt.
Air Date: 1986-05-19
- 19 Uranus Encounter
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In this episode, Horizon brings you Voyager's encounter with Uranus and the mysteries that are being relayed back to the scientists.
Air Date: 1986-05-26
- 20 Who Built Stonehenge?
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Horizon presents an interview with Prof. C. Renfrew as he questions the accepted wisdom about the origins of Stonehenge in England.
Air Date: 1986-06-09
- 21 Battered Baby - From Generation to Generation
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This is the first part of a two-part series on battered children.
Air Date: 1986-06-16
- 22 Battered Baby - Breaking the Chain
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This is the second part of a two-part series on battered children.
Air Date: 1986-06-23
- 23 Doctors to Be
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In a unique project, Horizon follows a group of medical students into the next century.
Air Date: 1986-06-30