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Horizon Season 18

January. 05,1981
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Horizon Season 18 Full Episode Guide

Episode 27 - Painting by Numbers
First Aired: December. 21,1981

Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It looks at the manipulation of 3-D images to paint, animate, design, and test scientific hypothesis.

Episode 26 - A Race Against Time
Episode 25 - The Cornucopia
First Aired: November. 30,1981

Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies which leads to the creation of overproduction of agricultural products. Do they need to reform the policy?

Episode 24 - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
First Aired: November. 23,1981

Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965. In this documentary he talks about his motivations to be a scientist and a teacher of science.

Episode 22 - The Race to Ruin
First Aired: November. 09,1981

This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for the extensive space defense system to match the Russians based on a misconception of the USSR war effort from space?

Episode 21 - Science for the People
First Aired: November. 02,1981

Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical processing plant from the UK and computers from the USA when they have a quarter of the world's scientists and still give science and research the highest priority.

Episode 19 - The Grid
First Aired: October. 19,1981

Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierce competition of the French and Italian racings teams by finding ways around new rulings to make their cars first on the grid.

Episode 16 - Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Episode 15 - Resolution on Saturn - The Moons
Episode 14 - Resolution on Saturn - The Rings
Episode 13 - East of Bombay
First Aired: April. 06,1981

This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are common killers in Indian communities. Also, a report on Salubai, one of these native health workers and her work at Kamkhed in Western India.

Episode 12 - Did Darwin Get It Wrong?

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