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Horizon Season 18 Episodes
Season 18 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1981 - 1982
Episode 1
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Episode 2
The Hunt for the Legion Killer
Episode 3
Breaking in Children
Episode 4
The Grid
58 mins
Once a fortnight, from March to October, a 50-yard stretch of tarmac is fought over by some of the world's most dedicated engineers. The 'Formula One' grid has space for 24 Grand Prix cars. Thirty enter the fray, six never make it and then there is the all-important battle for the front row. Tonights programme returns with the 'Williams Grand Prix Engineering' team to the frantic efforts of the British engineers to stave off the big French and Italian factory onslaught. This season was supposed to have seen the end of ' ground-effect ' aerodynamics that held cars on to the track through corners. An end, too, to the tyre war that had companies adding super-sticky ' qualifying ' tyres to their cars in the battle for the front row of the grid. Within weeks they had innovated their way round all the rule changes, and their cars were faster and more dangerous than ever.
Episode 5
Butterflies or Barley?
Episode 6
Science for the People
Episode 7
The Race to Ruin
49 mins
Episode 8
Death of the Dinosaurs
Episode 9
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
50 mins
Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman tells his story.
Episode 13
The Secret of the Snake
Episode 14
Finding a Voice
Episode 15
The Sea Behind the Dunes
Episode 16
Whatever Happened to the Energy Crisis?
The film provides a close look at alternative sources of energy against more conventional oil and nuclear power. The analysis of energy use is examined. Early wind and wave power systems are featured as well as more unusual schemes.
Episode 17
Notes of a Biology Watcher
Episode 18
The Cline Affair
Episode 19
The Million Murdering Death
Episode 20
Shots in the Dark
Episode 21
The Victims
Episode 22
The Future - Made in Japan?
Episode 23
The Private Face of Medicine
Episode 24
The Fatal Bargain
Episode 25
The Cornucopia
Episode 26
Race Against Time
Episode 27
Painting by Numbers
