Horizon: 1966
Season 3 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 2.
- 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 3 Progress Shield
Windows of the Soul / Elixir of Youth
Jan 2, 1966 · 60 min
Horizon follows experiments on the eyes being undertaken at the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. The purpose of the experiments are to discover if our eyes ca
The Troubled Mind / Triple-A. S.
Jan 16, 1966 · 60 min
Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs. The American equivalent of the British Association, the A
A Man of Two Visions / The Scientist Applied
Jan 30, 1966 · 60 min
A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as an accomplished artist under the name of Alcopley. For a country striving to raise its productivity,
The Dolphins that Joined The Navy / A Theory of The Earth
Feb 13, 1966 · 60 min
Horizon looks at the research of dolphins being conducted at a United States naval base in Port Magu, California. The research concentrates on the dolphin's abilities of navigation
Route 128
Feb 27, 1966 · 60 min
North of Boston, on Route 128, a new industrial landscape based on science is developing. Here men of high intellectual qualifications are developing way-out products, including a
The Beginning of Life / Science Friction
Mar 13, 1966 · 60 min
A remarkable Swedish film of the gradual development of the human embryo from fertilisation until birth. One man's impression of what science has done for the modern world: an ani
So you want to be an Inventor? / The Severed Hand
Mar 27, 1966 · 60 min
Horizon looks into inventors who struggle against exploding technology, the buying power of great industries and taxation problems to make their leaps into the unknown. An account
Chance and Decay / Meteorite Mystery
Apr 10, 1966 · 60 min
Europe's heritage of pictures, statues, and buildings is being destroyed at a frightening rate by atmospheric pollution, but an American scientist has just invented a method of pre
Towers of Ilium / The Exploding City
Apr 24, 1966 · 60 min
The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the researches of Carl Blegen. By A.D. 2,000, more than half the world's population may be living in cities. T
Man in Space
May 8, 1966 · 40 min
Horizon travels to the spacecraft center in Houston, Texas to study astronauts in space and how they react to being in space and the stresses of launching and re-entry.
Destination Mars / Editors in Conference"
May 22, 1966 · 60 min
Horizon looks at the possibilities of landing a man on the planet Mars. The Editors of two leading scientific magazines, Dennis Flanagan of the Scientific American, and Nigel Cald
Man meets Duck / The Picture Machines
Jun 5, 1966 · 60 min
Gordon Taylor meets with Konrad Lorenz, the inventor of ethology, and interviews him about his work on animal instinct and his theories about human instinct. The world knows all a
Where must the Money Go? / Phantoms Incorporated
Jun 19, 1966 · 60 min
Horizon explores substitute 'phantoms' which are used in radiation studies, manned spaceflight experiments and accident research that gives valuable information on the limits of to
Genes in Action / Scientists and War
Jul 3, 1966 · 60 min
Dr. John Gurdon talks about the action of the chromosomes puffing when they undergo intense genetic activity. Sir Solly Zuckerman talks about his new book Scientists and War which
The Lonely Children
Jul 17, 1966 · 60 min
Horizon investigates the research conducted in England and America on the problems associated with autistic children.
Man of Science / 'Nature' Tomorrow
Jul 31, 1966 · 60 min
This episode of Horizon reports on the famous science fiction writer, H. G. Wells. An interview with John Maddox, the new editor of one of the world's most influential scientific
M.I.T.'s ABC / The Disturbed Child
Sep 25, 1966 · 60 min
Horizon reports on the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many parents know that their child has a problem but do not have the necessary insight to deal with it. A psychia
Ten Years in the Antarctic
Oct 10, 1966 · 60 min
Horizon looks at the scientific research being carried out in the Antarctic under the guidance the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) which was formed in 1856.
From Peenemunde to the Moon
Nov 7, 1966 · 60 min
Christopher Chataway presents a program on the development of the rocket, first as a weapon, and then for the American space program.
Sex-Change?
Nov 21, 1966 · 60 min
Doctors and psychologists talk about the problems inherent in the determination of sex.
The Structure of Life
Dec 5, 1966 · 60 min
This program shows the work of Ernst Chain, one of the discoverers of antibiotics, now a Professor of Biochemistry at the Imperial College in London.
The Wages of Science
Dec 19, 1966 · 60 min
The survival of Britain as an industrial power depends of science and on scientists. But are our scientists paid enough to attract them into the right jobs?