Horizon: 1985
Season 22 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 21.
- 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 22 Progress Shield
Colourful Notions
Jan 7, 1985 · 60 min
Documentary about colour perception based on the theories of Dr. Edwin Land, which oppose the long-held three-receptor theory of colour vision
A World of Their Own
Jan 14, 1985 · 60 min
Horizon takes a look at consultant psychiatrists.
Decoding Danebury
Jan 21, 1985 · 60 min
Horizon looks at the way modern archaeologists extract information from a site dig.
A Mission to Heal
Jan 28, 1985 · 60 min
This Horizon episode is about a hospital in the African country of Kenya where the medical staff tells of a new approach to health care among the Pokot tribe.
Mystery of the Left Hand
Feb 4, 1985 · 60 min
In this episode, Horizon explores the characteristics of left-handed people.
The Theatre of War
Feb 11, 1985 · 60 min
Horizon examines new military technology which will come to dominate the battlefields of the future.
The Careful Predator
Feb 25, 1985 · 60 min
This episode of Horizon is about the controversial policy in African nation of Zimbabwe of encouraging villagers to allow wild animals back onto their land.
What Einstein Never Knew
Mar 4, 1985 · 60 min
This documentary by Horizon attempts to explain the advances in physics in the search for the ultimate equation that explains the meaning of life, the universe, and everything else
Eurekaaargh!
Mar 11, 1985 · 60 min
Horizon brings you a report by Robert Symes who offers ten golden guidelines on how to be a successful inventor.
Careering On
Mar 18, 1985 · 60 min
This is a Horizon follow-up report on the careers of seven British teenagers studying Science 'O' levels back in 1978.
How to Film the Impossible
Mar 25, 1985 · 60 min
This episode of Horizon looks at how the world's best special effects technicians create some of Hollywood's most spectacular film scenes.
The Food Allergy War
Apr 1, 1985 · 60 min
Horizon investigates how food allergy has developed from the 1950's to the present.
The Goddess of the Earth
Apr 15, 1985 · 60 min
Horizon examines a hypothesis that life itself manipulates the planet to enhance it's own survival.
IRAS - The Supercooled Eye
Apr 22, 1985 · 60 min
This Horizon documentary examines the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) which has detected evidence of planetary systems around distant stars.
A Prize Discovery
Apr 29, 1985 · 60 min
Horizon reports on the current medical treatment of Malaria and Leukemia.
The Wrong Stuff
May 13, 1985 · 60 min
Eighty per cent of all crashes are caused by 'human error'. Finding out what that means in terms of human behaviour has been called the last great frontier in aviation safety.