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Horizon Season 33

January. 08,1996
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Horizon Season 33 Full Episode Guide

Episode 16 - Noah's Flood
First Aired: December. 16,1996

Follows the work of geologists Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman, who for twenty five years have been investigating evidence for the location of the biblical flood and Noah's Ark.

Episode 14 - Living Death
First Aired: November. 25,1996

Looks at new treatments for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Focuses on the case of Geoffrey Wildsmith who was misdiagnosed as being PVS. He had awoken from his coma but was totally paralysed and unable to communicate. After two years he was transferred and it was found he could communicate by using a buzzer connected to a highly sensitive pressure-switch.

Episode 13 - Aliens from Mars
First Aired: November. 11,1996

An investigation into claims that life once existed on Mars. NASA scientists and their critics discuss the fossils discovered in a small meteoric rock in Antarctica earlier in 1996.

Episode 12 - TV is Dead, Long Live TV
Episode 11 - Fallout from Chernobyl
First Aired: April. 01,1996

Reports on the work by scientists Dr Keith Baverstock and Sir Dillwyn Williams to confirm that the outbreak of thyroid cancer in children in Belarus and the Ukraine was due to the Chernobyl disaster.

Episode 10 - Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update)
First Aired: March. 25,1996

In this episode of Horizon, which is a follow-up to the 1991 documentary, we follow a group of soviet scientists on a suicide mission as they search for the missing nuclear fuel inside the remains of the nuclear reactor 4.

Episode 9 - The Planet Hunters
Episode 8 - Death by Design
First Aired: March. 04,1996

In this Horizon documentary, we look at the notion that each cell in our body is programmed to die. Understanding this concept has major implications for research into disease.

Episode 7 - Assault on the Male (revisited)
Episode 6 - Masters of the Ionosphere
First Aired: February. 12,1996

Recounts the history of scientific attempts from Marconi onwards to understand the atmospheric layer, known as the ionosphere. Discusses interest shown by the US Military in the region which has led to the establishment of HAARP (High Altitude Auroral Research Project) which will beam energy directly into the ionosphere.

Episode 5 - The Gene Race
First Aired: February. 05,1996

Follows two teams of researchers, in Britain and USA as they use radically different genetic techniques in the race to find an effective treatment against cystic fibrosis.

Episode 4 - Nature's Numbers
First Aired: January. 29,1996

Follows a group of biologists Conservation International who take a pragmatic approach to what species can be saved.They travel to the Bolivian rainforest to assess missing species.

Episode 2 - Fermat's Last Theorem
Episode 1 - The Butchers of Boxgrove
First Aired: January. 08,1996

Investigates the case of the "Boxgrove Man". Follows archaeologist Mark Roberts who tries to piece together the history of the first Englishman, from a shin bone nearly 500,000 years old, discovered in Boxgrove in Sussex.

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