Aired: 1/6/1986
Horizon presents a documentary about how white racists and black victims of racism volunteered to spend time in an isolated house living and talking about their prejudices.
Aired: 1/13/1986
This Horizon episode is about the discovery of a molecular key which may literally unlock the mystery of life for all creatures.
Aired: 1/20/1986
Horizon presents a documentary on scientists who take themselves to Antarctica in 1980 to act as physical and mental guinea pigs.
Aired: 1/27/1986
Horizon explores the myth about the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin.
Aired: 2/3/1986
In this episode, Horizon explores the question of when antibiotics were first developed it seemed infectious disease might be eliminated, so what has gone wrong?
Aired: 2/17/1986
Horizon investigates the truths of science and it's theories.
Aired: 2/24/1986
Horizon explores at the latest discoveries about just where modern man came from.
Aired: 3/3/1986
This episode of Horizon documents leprosy in the USA and India with a focus on medical developments for it's cure and control.
Aired: 3/10/1986
Horizon investigates the remarkable technological transformation of France over the last 25 years.
Aired: 3/17/1986
Will the new strategies and weapons introduced because of the Falklands war be a match for the next generation of weapons? Horizon presents this documentary to answer that question.
Aired: 3/24/1986
Horizon looks at the virus that causes AIDS and the research into vaccines and drugs being developed to counteract the devastating disease of the immune system.
Aired: 4/7/1986
In this documentary, Horizon reports on how doctors in America found that addicts using designer drugs developed Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms.
Aired: 4/14/1986
In the interview by Horizon, Richard Dawkins discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favours co-operative behaviour, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the prisoner's dilemma game.
Aired: 4/21/1986
This is an interesting Horizon presentation on decoys that look and smell like cows to the tsetse fly who carry a disease fatal to farm animals.
Aired: 4/28/1986
Horizon researches how we acquire mathematical abilities in the first place.
Aired: 5/12/1986
This report by Horizon takes a look at the instinctive side of intelligence in animals that shows us that we owe more to instinct than we may care to think.
Aired: 5/19/1986
Horizon presents a simple, but effective, cure for diarrea in young children; sugar and salt.
Aired: 5/26/1986
In this episode, Horizon brings you Voyager's encounter with Uranus and the mysteries that are being relayed back to the scientists.
Aired: 6/9/1986
Horizon presents an interview with Prof. C. Renfrew as he questions the accepted wisdom about the origins of Stonehenge in England.
Aired: 6/16/1986
This is the first part of a two-part series on battered children.
Aired: 6/23/1986
This is the second part of a two-part series on battered children.
Aired: 6/30/1986
In a unique project, Horizon follows a group of medical students into the next century.