Horizon: 1967
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
Sons of Cain
Jan 17, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?
When Is a Body Dead? / How to Win Friends and Influence People
Jan 31, 1967 · 60 min
Medical advances have made it possible for 'life' to be maintained in an unconscious patient who has irrevocable brain damage and who might also be dependent on artificial aids to
How Best to Make a Man / How Best to Make a Scientist
Feb 14, 1967 · 60 min
In this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. This school uses a competition held for Russian school children to qu
Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday
Feb 28, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.
Migraine
Mar 14, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.
How Safe Is Surgery?
Mar 28, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.
Sleep and Dreams
Apr 11, 1967 · 60 min
Joel, a healthy young American, is reduced to a restless neurotic state after being deprived of his dreams for three nights. Mr Bates, an eighty-four-year-old ex-milk man, has neve
The Shape of War to Come
Apr 25, 1967 · 60 min
Will the next major war be fought with biological and chemical weapons? What are the available weapons? What is the horror they can cause? Is there any moral justification for thei
Memory
May 9, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon explores the part of the human brain devoted to memory.
Masters of the Desert
May 23, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.
Cancer - The Search for the Virus
Jun 6, 1967 · 60 min
In this the first of two programmes dealing with cancer, Horizon looks at the intensive search now going on to discover whether a virus is one of the causes of cancer in humans and
Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble
Jun 20, 1967 · 60 min
Why is there doubt in so many people's minds about the relationship between lung cancer and smoking? Tonight's programme examines the latest scientific evidence in detail.
Science and the Supernatural
Jul 4, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).
Hypnosis
Jul 18, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.
The War of the Boffins
Sep 12, 1967 · 60 min
During the human struggles between the British and German air forces ... another conflict was going on step by step, month by month. This was a secret war whose battles were lost o
Aspects of Alcohol
Sep 26, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbon 14 used for determining how old an object is.
Lords of the Sea
Oct 10, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.
Will Art Last?
Oct 24, 1967 · 60 min
In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.
Air Safety: The Unknown Factor
Nov 17, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.
The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary
Nov 21, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.
Koestler on Creativity
Dec 5, 1967 · 60 min
Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.
The World of Ted Serios
Dec 12, 1967 · 60 min
Horizon looks into the life of Ted Serios who claims to have psychic powers and to be able to project images onto film using only his thoughts.
Professor in Toyland
Dec 24, 1967 · 60 min
Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.