Horizon — 1978

Jan 19781h

Horizon investigates how biologists and engineers are pooling their ideas to understand how nature's machines work.

Jan 19781h

In this episode, Horizon examines the need for an objective approach to land management in Britain.

Jan 19781h

Horizon explores community and residential services available to the elderly in South Hampton, England.

Feb 19781h

Horizon presents a report on zero gravity and the effects of weightlessness in spacecraft on humans.

Feb 19781h

Develops the theory that four and a half thousand million years ago the earth was formed thanks to the explosion of a huge star which provided the rocks, the minerals and the radioactivity from which life developed. These theories are based partly on analysis of a meteorite which dropped near a village in Mexico at the beginning of the seventies.

Feb 19781h

Horizon reports on last three attempts to build a lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, near Plymouth.

Mar 19781h

Horizon presents a documentary on the development of the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation device, or more commonly know as the Laser.

Mar 19781h

Horizon investigates the reasons for poverty in Britain today, now with seven million on at the poverty line.

Mar 19781h

About the applications and implications for the future, particularly the effects on the labour market, of microprocessors.

Jul 19781h

In this episode, Horizon explores the after effects of a stroke when there is a sudden stoppage of blood to the human brain.

Jul 19781h

Horizon investigates the race to the moon between the USA and Russia and questions the motives behind the space race.

Jul 19781h

This episode of Horizon is about the tsetse fly which rules most of Africa and why much of the fertile land can't in Africa can't be used because of the dangerous insect.

Aug 19781h

Horizon explores the history of evidence used to support the Big Bang Theory of the creation of the universe.

Aug 19781h

In this episode, Horizon explains some of the research in multiple sclerosis and how the lives of MS sufferers are affected.

Aug 19781h

Horizon presents a brief history of the French railways and the policy behind their future direction.

Aug 19781h

This documentary by Horizon is about six school children taking 'O' levels exams and inter science in Britain.

Sept 19781h

Horizon looks at the implications of exploiting Manganese nodules which are scattered over the seabed.

Sept 19781h

Horizon investigates the composition and structure of the membrane that surround individual cells.

Sept 19781h

In this documentary, Horizon examines all sides of the Canadian Harpseal hunt issue and asks if it is really necessary.

Nov 19781h

Horizon explores an experimental medical school in Israel where students are trained primarily to care for people.

Nov 19781h

Horizon explores the years of research that have enabled divers to go to greater and greater ocean depth.

Nov 19781h

In this story, Horizon takes a look at the world's leading hibernation research projects.

Nov 19781h

In this episode, Horizon examines the current developments in electrotherapy.

Dec 19781h

Horizon takes a look at the changing behaviour of individual animals in a herd of red deer on the Isle of Rhum.