Horizon: 1981
Season 18 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Horizon Season 17.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 18 Progress Shield
Spend and Prosper
Jan 5, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.
A Whole New Medicine
Jan 12, 1981 · 60 min
This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.
The Qualyub Project
Jan 19, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.
No One Will Take Me Seriously
Jan 26, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.
Living with Dying
Feb 2, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.
A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb
Feb 9, 1981 · 60 min
In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.
Who Will Deliver Your Baby?
Feb 16, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.
West of Bangalore
Mar 2, 1981 · 60 min
A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.
Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts
Mar 9, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.
Hello Universe!
Mar 16, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.
Voices from Silent Hands
Mar 23, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.
Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
Mar 30, 1981 · 60 min
In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.
East of Bombay
Apr 6, 1981 · 60 min
This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are comm
Resolution on Saturn - The Rings
Apr 11, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
Resolution on Saturn - The Moons
Apr 13, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Sep 28, 1981 · 60 min
In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near where they live.
The Hunt for the Legion Killer
Oct 5, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.
Breaking in Children
Oct 12, 1981 · 60 min
In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.
The Grid
Oct 19, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierc
Butterflies or Barley?
Oct 26, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.
Science for the People
Nov 2, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical
The Race to Ruin
Nov 9, 1981 · 60 min
This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for th
Death of the Dinosaurs
Nov 16, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Nov 23, 1981 · 60 min
Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for thi
The Cornucopia
Nov 30, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies
A Race Against Time
Dec 7, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first run.
Painting by Numbers
Dec 21, 1981 · 60 min
Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It looks at the manipulation of 3-D images