Horizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?

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 qualify new students.

Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.

Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.

Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.

Christopher Chataway presents a program which looks at whether biological and chemical warfare will supercede conventional weapons of war and at the ethical and political implications of such unconventional weapons.

Horizon explores the part of the human brain devoted to memory.

Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.

Horizon looks at the links between smoking and cancer. Presented by Christopher Chataway.

Horizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).

Horizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.

Horizon looks at the secret war between scientists from Germany and scientists from Britain during the second world war.

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.

Horizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.

In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.

Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.

An extraordinary and beautiful film shows the hazardous existence of a caterpillar Thaumetopoea Pityocampa. Sometimes joyful, sometimes pitiful and seemingly innocuous,' the Pine Processionary, as it is more familiarly called, is a wonderful subject for the French film director Robert Enrico ; but the wake of destruction it leaves behind in its struggle for survival has forced French biologists to declare war on the species.

Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.

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.

Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.