Horizon 15
1978-01-06 | Documentary | 24 episodes60 Seasons
Episode
Living Machines (1978)
Horizon investigates how biologists and engineers are pooling their ideas to understand how nature's machines work.
A Land for All Reasons (1978)
In this episode, Horizon examines the need for an objective approach to land management in Britain.
I Don't Want to Be a Burden (1978)
Horizon explores community and residential services available to the elderly in South Hampton, England.
Zero G (1978)
Horizon presents a report on zero gravity and the effects of weightlessness in spacecraft on humans.
The Message in the Rocks (1978)
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.