Horizon: 1965
Season 2 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 1.
- 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 2 Progress Shield
Learning from Machines
Jan 6, 1965 · 60 min
At a time when the use of teaching machines is fast expanding, Horizon looks at the principles behind them and enquires into their success
The Technique of Change
Jan 20, 1965 · 60 min
Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of the most important research and development centers where more than 4000 scientists work with a budget
Star Gazers
Feb 3, 1965 · 60 min
Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the universe and learn how stars are created.
Science and Art
Feb 17, 1965 · 60 min
Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores artists attitudes towards science.
The Great Computer Scandal / H-Bomb Detectors
Mar 3, 1965 · 60 min
Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, Horizon looks at the H-Bomb Detectors and how British scientists have developed a nuclear explosion dete
Forbidden Events / I am a Madman
Mar 17, 1965 · 60 min
Is there a fifth force in the Universe, or must we revise our ideas about time? Horizon visits the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory where an experiment is running to settle this,
Restless Genius / Faster, Farther, Higher
Mar 31, 1965 · 60 min
Prof. Andrade presents a tribute to Robert Hooke: architect, astronomer, geologist, and meteorologist who discovered the cell. This episode also includes a report on a 36 year stud
The Other Side of the Pill
Apr 14, 1965 · 60 min
Every day, on average, another 431 British women start taking the contraceptive pill. The manufacturers insist that it is the most carefully tested drug on the market today. But so
The Big Smoke / The Model Makers
May 12, 1965 · 60 min
Nine years after the passing of the Clean Air Act, where do we stand? Scientists are gradually finding out why dirty air Is so harmful to ill persons with Dr. P. J. Lawther of Air
The Long Slide / Men with Gills
May 26, 1965 · 60 min
When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water and begin to 'aquaplane.' Scientists are studying this fact which creates a real hazard to aircraft pa
Men and Sharks / Sir Henry Dale, OM, FRS
Jun 9, 1965 · 60 min
Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets with the eminent physiologist Sir Henry Dale as he celebrates his 90th birthday and looks back on his c
The Brain Gain / The Sudden Night / Learning to Speak
Jun 23, 1965 · 60 min
Dr. Jacob Bronowski, who a year ago took up the deputy directorship of the Salk Institute in California, discusses with Tom Rosenthal his new activities and how he feels about work
Dr. Joseph Needham / Mariner IV
Jul 14, 1965 · 60 min
This episode of Horizon features Dr. Joseph Needham, an eminent scientist and humanist who is perhaps the greatest living authority on China. An account of the space probe Mariner
Science Fiction : Science Fact? / Alone and Unarmed
Jul 28, 1965 · 60 min
Is all science fiction merely fantasy - or can it give valuable clues to the future? A discussion between Desmond Morris and the ethologist George Schaller.
Certain of Uncertainty / State of Nature
Aug 11, 1965 · 60 min
The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and George Thompson meet and discuss topic with John Charap at the annual science confere
Time Stood Still / Weighty Matters
Aug 25, 1965 · 60 min
Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has won international recognition for his achievements in ultra-high-speed photography, talks about his
Fuel for the Future / Collector's Piece
Sep 8, 1965 · 60 min
Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific books which he was about to sell.
Let Newton Be
Sep 22, 1965 · 60 min
On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of his most ardent disciples, Prof. Julius Summer-Miller, comes from California to illustrate the excitem
Special Senses / Toil, Sweat & Tears
Oct 10, 1965 · 60 min
What sort of person can invent a 3-D microscope, a new way of photographing the moon, publish fifty papers on perception, and spend three weeks hunting for a minute sea creature to
An Affair of the Heart
Oct 24, 1965 · 60 min
Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.
10,000 Tombs
Nov 7, 1965 · 60 min
Horizon probes into the Etruscan tombs in Italy. Carlo Lerici, scientist and archaeologist, has brought past and future together. Using geophysical methods intended for mineral su
Albert Szent-Györgyi M.D., Ph.D., D.h.c.
Nov 21, 1965 · 60 min
Horizon profiles the scientist, polymath, and Nobel prize winner Prof. Albert Szent-Gyorgi.
The Big Dishes / The Living Stream
Dec 5, 1965 · 60 min
A look at some of the huge new radio telescopes which have recently started work in Britain, France, Russia, America, and elsewhere. Sir Bernard Lovell, Professor Martin Ryle, and
Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles
Sep 25, 1966 · 60 min
Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lectures on bubbles and surface tension which drew crowds to the London Institution sixty-six years ago. T