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Horizon
Amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Season 1964
5 Feb 1964 – 14 Dec 1964 · 10 episodes
- 1The World of Buckminster Fuller5 Feb 1964
- 2Pesticides and Posterity30 May 1964
- 3A Candle to Nature27 Jun 1964
- 4Strangeness Minus Three25 Jul 1964
- 5The Air of Science22 Aug 1964
- 6The Knowledge Explosion21 Sep 1964
- 7The Amateur Scientist19 Oct 1964
- 8Tots and Quods and Woodgeries16 Nov 1964
- 9Professor J.B.S. Haldane, Obituary1 Dec 1964
- 10Science, Toys and Magic14 Dec 1964
Season 1965
6 Jan 1965 – 19 Dec 1965 · 24 episodes
- 1Learning from Machines6 Jan 1965
- 2The Technique of Change20 Jan 1965
- 3Star Gazers3 Feb 1965
- 4Science and Art17 Feb 1965
- 5The Great Computer Scandal3 Mar 1965
- 6Faster, Farther, Higher17 Mar 1965
- 7Restless Genius31 Mar 1965
- 8Other Side of the Pill14 Apr 1965
- 9The Big Smoke12 May 1965
- 10The Long Slide26 May 1965
- 11Men and Sharks9 Jun 1965
- 12The Sudden Light23 Jun 1965
- 13Dr. Joseph Needham14 Jul 1965
- 14Science Fiction: Science Fact?28 Jul 1965
- 15Certain of Uncertainty11 Aug 1965
- 16Time Stood Still25 Aug 1965
- 17Fuel for the Future8 Sep 1965
- 18Let Newton Be22 Sep 1965
- 19Special Senses10 Oct 1965
- 20An Affair of the Heart24 Oct 1965
- 2110,000 Tombs7 Nov 1965
- 22Toil, Sweat & Tears21 Nov 1965
- 23The Big Dishes and the Living Stream5 Dec 1965
- 24Boys on Bubbles19 Dec 1965
Season 1966
2 Jan 1966 – 25 Dec 1966 · 24 episodes
- 1Windows of the Soul2 Jan 1966
- 2The Troubled Mind16 Jan 1966
- 3A Man of Two Visions30 Jan 1966
- 4A Theory of the Earth13 Feb 1966
- 5Route 12827 Feb 1966
- 6The Beginning of Life13 Mar 1966
- 7So You Want to Be an Inventor?27 Mar 1966
- 8Chance and Decay10 Apr 1966
- 9Towers of Ilium24 Apr 1966
- 10Man in Space8 May 1966
- 11Destination Mars22 May 1966
- 12Man Meets Duck5 Jun 1966
- 13Where Must the Money Go?19 Jun 1966
- 14Genes in Action3 Jul 1966
- 15The Lonely Children17 Jul 1966
- 16Man of Science31 Jul 1966
- 17The Dolphins That Joined the Navy11 Sep 1966
- 18M.I.T's ABC25 Sep 1966
- 19Ten Years in the Antarctic10 Oct 1966
- 20The Athlete24 Oct 1966
- 21From Peenemünde to the Moon7 Nov 1966
- 22Sex-Change?21 Nov 1966
- 23The Structure of Life5 Dec 1966
- 24Hand Me My Sword, Humphrey25 Dec 1966
Season 1967
17 Jan 1967 – 24 Dec 1967 · 20 episodes
- 1Sons of Cain17 Jan 1967
- 2How Best to Make a Man, How Best to Make a Scientist17 Feb 1967
- 3Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday28 Feb 1967
- 4Migraine14 Mar 1967
- 5How Safe is Surgery?28 Mar 1967
- 6The Shape of War to Come25 Apr 1967
- 7Memory9 May 1967
- 8Masters of the Desert23 May 1967
- 9Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble20 Jun 1967
- 10Science and the Supernatural4 Jul 1967
- 11Hypnosis18 Jul 1967
- 12The War of the Boffins12 Sep 1967
- 13Aspects of Alcohol26 Sep 1967
- 14Lords of the Sea10 Oct 1967
- 15Will Art Last?24 Oct 1967
- 16Air Safety - The Unknown Factor7 Nov 1967
- 17The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary21 Nov 1967
- 18Koestler on Creativity5 Dec 1967
- 19The World of Ted Serios12 Dec 1967
- 20Professor in Toyland24 Dec 1967
Season 1968
2 Jan 1968 – 24 Dec 1968 · 23 episodes
- 1An Ingenious Man - Sir H. John Baker2 Jan 1968
- 2Man's Best Friend30 Jan 1968
- 3Once a Junkie13 Feb 1968
- 4Towns, Traffic and Tomorrow27 Feb 1968
- 5The Man Makers12 Mar 1968
- 6Man in Search of Himself26 Mar 1968
- 7Investigating Murder9 Apr 1968
- 8The Equation of Murder7 May 1968
- 9The Lindemann Enigma12 Sep 1968
- 10From Field to Factory19 Sep 1968
- 11Comfort on Aging26 Sep 1968
- 12Experiments in War3 Oct 1968
- 13African Medicine17 Oct 1968
- 14The Broken Bridge24 Oct 1968
- 15Children Without Words31 Oct 1968
- 16Computer Revolution7 Nov 1968
- 17The Doctor's Dilemma14 Nov 1968
- 18In the Matter of Dr. Alfred Nobel21 Nov 1968
- 19Wheels Within Wheels28 Nov 1968
- 20Black Man, White Science5 Dec 1968
- 21Hidden World12 Dec 1968
- 22The Talgai Skull19 Dec 1968
- 23Phantasmagoria: The Magic Lantern24 Dec 1968
Season 1969
2 Jan 1969 – 29 Dec 1969 · 36 episodes
- 1Inside Every Fat Man2 Jan 1969
- 2If Only They Could Speak9 Jan 1969
- 3The Miraculous Wonder: The Human Eye16 Jan 1969
- 4The Years of the Locust23 Jan 1969
- 5The Gifted Child30 Jan 1969
- 6The Last of the Polymaths6 Feb 1969
- 7Music and the Mind13 Feb 1969
- 8Report on V.D.20 Feb 1969
- 9A True Madness22 Feb 1969
- 10Extra Sensory Perception27 Feb 1969
- 11The Drift from Science6 Mar 1969
- 12Powers of Persuasion13 Mar 1969
- 13The View from Space20 Mar 1969
- 14The Unborn Patient27 Mar 1969
- 15King Solomon's Garden10 Apr 1969
- 16Muck Today, Poison Tomorrow24 Apr 1969
- 17Shark1 May 1969
- 18Technology and Self-Determination15 May 1969
- 19After Apollo22 May 1969
- 20Discovery29 May 1969
- 21Machines and People5 Jun 1969
- 22Science on Safari15 Sep 1969
- 23The Problem of Pain29 Sep 1969
- 24Four Fast Legs and a Nose6 Oct 1969
- 25Father of the Man13 Oct 1969
- 26Master of the Microscope20 Oct 1969
- 27C.E.R.N.27 Oct 1969
- 28Snap, Crackle and Bang3 Nov 1969
- 29Cancer Now10 Nov 1969
- 30There's a Rhino in My Sugar17 Nov 1969
- 31Fit to Live24 Nov 1969
- 32Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs1 Dec 1969
- 33How Much Do You Drink?8 Dec 1969
- 34A Game of War15 Dec 1969
- 35Bread22 Dec 1969
- 36For the Safety of Mankind29 Dec 1969
Season 1970
5 Jan 1970 – 28 Dec 1970 · 37 episodes
- 1Just Another World5 Jan 1970
- 2Henry Royce, Mechanic12 Jan 1970
- 3A Disease of Our Time - Stress19 Jan 1970
- 4A Disease of Our Time - Heart Attacks26 Jan 1970
- 5Sex and Sexuality2 Feb 1970
- 6Whose Coast?16 Feb 1970
- 7A Much Wanted Child23 Feb 1970
- 8The Expert Witness2 Mar 1970
- 9After the Iron Age9 Mar 1970
- 10Let the Therapy Fit the Crime16 Mar 1970
- 11The World Outside23 Mar 1970
- 12In the Beginning Was the Word30 Mar 1970
- 13The Drifting of the Continents13 Apr 1970
- 14A Case of Priority20 Apr 1970
- 15The Fretful Elements27 Apr 1970
- 16One Man's Meat11 May 1970
- 17Only Skin Deep6 Jul 1970
- 18Wolves and Wolfmen13 Jul 1970
- 19A Measure of Uncertainty10 Aug 1970
- 20The Manhunters17 Aug 1970
- 21Don't Get Sick in America24 Aug 1970
- 22Crown of Thorns31 Aug 1970
- 23Noah's Ark in Kensington7 Sep 1970
- 24Virus14 Sep 1970
- 25Water, Water21 Sep 1970
- 26All Creatures Great and Small28 Sep 1970
- 27Child for a Lifetime5 Oct 1970
- 28Something for Our Children12 Oct 1970
- 29Million Ton Tanker2 Nov 1970
- 30The Insect War9 Nov 1970
- 31The Savage Mind16 Nov 1970
- 32Tanks23 Nov 1970
- 33Mind the Machine30 Nov 1970
- 34Square Pegs7 Dec 1970
- 35The City That Waits to Die14 Dec 1970
- 36The Man Who Talks to Frogs21 Dec 1970
- 37The Gargantuan Triumph of Science28 Dec 1970
Season 1971
4 Jan 1971 – 27 Dec 1971 · 32 episodes
- 1Wildlife - The Last Great Battle4 Jan 1971
- 2Great Ormond Street18 Jan 1971
- 3A Bulldozer Through Heaven25 Jan 1971
- 4Rumors of War1 Feb 1971
- 5I'm Dependent - You're Addicted15 Feb 1971
- 6Kuru - To Tremble with Fear22 Feb 1971
- 7Due to a Lack of Interest, Tomorrow Has Been Canceled8 Mar 1971
- 8What Kind of Doctor?15 Mar 1971
- 9Nice Sort of Accident to Have22 Mar 1971
- 10The Wood5 Apr 1971
- 11The Measure of a Man12 Apr 1971
- 12Three Score Years and Then?26 Apr 1971
- 13Darwin's Bulldog3 May 1971
- 14The Secret10 May 1971
- 15What Every Girl Should Know17 May 1971
- 16Tastes of Food to Come24 May 1971
- 17Looking for a Happy Landing31 May 1971
- 18A Case of Depression7 Jun 1971
- 19The Total War Machine14 Jun 1971
- 20The Dinosaur Hunters21 Jun 1971
- 21Your Country Needs You27 Sep 1971
- 22Rheumatism4 Oct 1971
- 23If at First You Don't Succeed...You Don't Succeed11 Oct 1971
- 24One Liverpool or Two?18 Oct 1971
- 25Rutherford, Cavendish25 Oct 1971
- 26The Fierce People1 Nov 1971
- 27The Men Who Painted Caves15 Nov 1971
- 28The Crab Nebula22 Nov 1971
- 29Can Venice Survive?29 Nov 1971
- 30Willingly to School6 Dec 1971
- 31Periscope War20 Dec 1971
- 32Patently Absurd27 Dec 1971
Season 1972
3 Jan 1972 – 28 Dec 1972 · 33 episodes
- 1The Missing Link3 Jan 1972
- 2Navajo - The Last Red Indians10 Jan 1972
- 3How Much Do You Smell?17 Jan 1972
- 4Parasite of Paradise31 Jan 1972
- 5The Day It Rained Periwinkles7 Feb 1972
- 6Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?14 Feb 1972
- 7How They Sold Doomsday21 Feb 1972
- 8For Love or Money28 Feb 1972
- 9Whales, Dolphins and Men6 Mar 1972
- 10What is Race?13 Mar 1972
- 11Man-Made Lakes in Africa20 Mar 1972
- 12Survival in the Sahara27 Mar 1972
- 13Mind Over Body10 Apr 1972
- 14Out of Volcanoes17 Apr 1972
- 15The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor1 May 1972
- 16Rail Crash8 May 1972
- 17Do You Dig National Parks?22 May 1972
- 18Sorry I Opened My Mouth12 Jun 1972
- 19The Way We Move3 Jul 1972
- 20The Life That Lives on Man10 Jul 1972
- 21Sex Can Be a Problem24 Jul 1972
- 22The Surgery of Violence31 Jul 1972
- 23Hospital, 192212 Oct 1972
- 24When Polar Bears Swam in the Thames19 Oct 1972
- 25The Making of the English Landscape26 Oct 1972
- 26Shadows of Bliss2 Nov 1972
- 27Billion Marsh9 Nov 1972
- 28Do You Sincerely Want a Long Life?16 Nov 1972
- 29The Making of a Natural History Film23 Nov 1972
- 30Fire30 Nov 1972
- 31Alaskan Pipe Dream7 Dec 1972
- 32Their Life in Your Hands21 Dec 1972
- 33Navigating Europe28 Dec 1972
Season 1973
4 Jan 1973 – 24 Dec 1973 · 33 episodes
- 1Epidemic4 Jan 1973
- 2Worlds in Collision11 Jan 1973
- 3The Military Necessity18 Jan 1973
- 4The Curtain of Silence25 Jan 1973
- 5Crime Lab1 Feb 1973
- 6When the Breeding Has to Stop8 Feb 1973
- 7Science is Dead, Long Live Science15 Feb 1973
- 8...And Where Will the Children Play?1 Mar 1973
- 9Acupuncture: A Chinese Puzzle8 Mar 1973
- 10What Time is Your Body?22 Mar 1973
- 11Survival of the Weakest5 Apr 1973
- 12Red Sea Coral and the Crown of Thorns12 Apr 1973
- 13Lumbered with Back-Ache!26 Apr 1973
- 14Airport3 May 1973
- 15Do You Remember the Memory Man?17 May 1973
- 16What a Waste!24 May 1973
- 17The Laws of the Land7 Jun 1973
- 18Do We Really Need the Railways?14 Jun 1973
- 19The Telly of Tomorrow21 Jun 1973
- 20The Rat Man28 Jun 1973
- 21How Does It Hurt?5 Jul 1973
- 22A Scientist Looks at Religion9 Aug 1973
- 23In Search of Konrad Lorenz24 Sep 1973
- 24Stretch Up Tall1 Oct 1973
- 25Gilding the Lily8 Oct 1973
- 26Black Holes of Gravity15 Oct 1973
- 27What's So Big About Us?22 Oct 1973
- 28The Steadfast Tin Soldier29 Oct 1973
- 29Carry on Smoking5 Nov 1973
- 30Air Crash Detective26 Nov 1973
- 31An Element of Mystery3 Dec 1973
- 32Digging Up the Future17 Dec 1973
- 33Kula, a Reason for Giving24 Dec 1973
Season 1974
7 Jan 1974 – 30 Dec 1974 · 32 episodes
- 1A Matter of Self-Defense7 Jan 1974
- 2Bird Brain - The Mystery of Bird Navigation14 Jan 1974
- 3Never Too Late to Learn21 Jan 1974
- 4The Great Fish Hunt28 Jan 1974
- 5Pedal Power4 Feb 1974
- 6The Writing on the Wall11 Feb 1974
- 7Where Did the Colorado Go?18 Feb 1974
- 8The Future Goes Boom4 Mar 1974
- 9Fusion: The Energy Promise11 Mar 1974
- 10The First Ten Years22 Apr 1974
- 11This Yankee Dodge Beats Mesmerism Hollow29 Apr 1974
- 12The Hunting of the Quark6 May 1974
- 13A Noah's Ark for Europe13 May 1974
- 14Bridges: When It Comes to the Crunch3 Jun 1974
- 15Search for Life10 Jun 1974
- 16The Secrets of Sleep10 Jun 1974
- 17Who Needs Skills?24 Jun 1974
- 18Hills of Promise1 Jul 1974
- 19The Race for the Double Helix8 Jul 1974
- 20The Immigrant Doctors15 Jul 1974
- 21Mines, Minerals and Men22 Jul 1974
- 22What Price Steak?29 Jul 1974
- 23Listen and Be Loyal5 Aug 1974
- 24Adam or Eve?12 Aug 1974
- 25An Unholy Scramble2 Sep 1974
- 26Do as You Are Told28 Oct 1974
- 27The First Signs of Washoe4 Nov 1974
- 28The Other Way11 Nov 1974
- 29Joey9 Dec 1974
- 30The Neglected Harvest16 Dec 1974
- 31How on Earth Did They Do That?23 Dec 1974
- 32The Lysenko Affair30 Dec 1974
Season 1975
6 Jan 1975 – 29 Dec 1975 · 26 episodes
- 1The Cleanest Place in the World6 Jan 1975
- 2The Killer Dust20 Jan 1975
- 3A Time to Be Born27 Jan 1975
- 4The Unsafe Sea10 Feb 1975
- 5The Change of Life17 Feb 1975
- 6Project Fido24 Feb 1975
- 7The Long, Long Walkabout7 Apr 1975
- 8The Overworked Miracle14 Apr 1975
- 9Not the Cheapest, But the Best21 Apr 1975
- 10A Spoonful of Roughage28 Apr 1975
- 11Brain Poison5 May 1975
- 12The Bulldog's Last Bark12 May 1975
- 13Benjamin19 May 1975
- 14The McMaster Experiment2 Jun 1975
- 15The Glazed Outlook9 Jun 1975
- 16The Three Chord Trick16 Jun 1975
- 17The Cleanest Place in the World23 Jun 1975
- 18Strange Sleep30 Jun 1975
- 19The Greatest Advance Since the Wheel?7 Jul 1975
- 20How Do You Read?14 Jul 1975
- 21The Sickly Sea21 Jul 1975
- 22Happy Catastrophe28 Jul 1975
- 23To Die, to Live - The Survivors of Hiroshima4 Aug 1975
- 24Cannabis11 Aug 1975
- 25Meditation and the Mind18 Aug 1975
- 26The Trobriand Experiment29 Dec 1975
Season 1976
5 Jan 1976 – 20 Dec 1976 · 32 episodes
- 1The Transplant Experience5 Jan 1976
- 2Intimate Strangers12 Jan 1976
- 3A Fair Share of What Little We Have19 Jan 1976
- 4The Incredible Machine26 Jan 1976
- 5King Coal Revived2 Feb 1976
- 6A Question of Trust9 Feb 1976
- 7The Case of the Bermuda Triangle16 Feb 1976
- 8The Lords of the Labyrinth23 Feb 1976
- 9Inside the Shark1 Mar 1976
- 10The Chemical Dream8 Mar 1976
- 11The Edelin Affair15 Mar 1976
- 12The World of Margaret Mead22 Mar 1976
- 13The Pathway from Madness29 Mar 1976
- 14Geronimo's Children5 Apr 1976
- 15The Vision of the Blind12 Apr 1976
- 16A Lesson for Teachers26 Apr 1976
- 17Why Did Stuart Die?3 May 1976
- 18The Planets10 May 1976
- 19The Children of Peru17 May 1976
- 20Dying24 May 1976
- 21The Great British Drought31 May 1976
- 22A Home Like Ours... A Story of Four Children7 Jun 1976
- 23What's Wrong with the Sun?14 Jun 1976
- 24The Bull's Eye War25 Oct 1976
- 25The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs1 Nov 1976
- 26Billion Dollar Bubble8 Nov 1976
- 27The Selfish Gene15 Nov 1976
- 28A Child of Our Own22 Nov 1976
- 29Secrets of a Coral Island29 Nov 1976
- 30The Long Valley6 Dec 1976
- 31Half-Way to 198413 Dec 1976
- 32The Mystery of King Arthur and His Round Table20 Dec 1976
Season 1977
7 Jan 1977 – 23 Dec 1977 · 25 episodes
- 1A Smile for a Crocodile7 Jan 1977
- 2The Pill for the People14 Jan 1977
- 3The Ape That Stood Up21 Jan 1977
- 4The Human Animal4 Feb 1977
- 5The Guinea Pig and the Law18 Feb 1977
- 6Hunters of the Seal25 Feb 1977
- 7The Red Planet4 Mar 1977
- 8One of Nature's Hotels11 Mar 1977
- 9Dawn of the Solar Age18 Mar 1977
- 10Genetic Roulette1 Apr 1977
- 11The Amazing Doctor Newton15 Jul 1977
- 12The Trouble with Medicine22 Jul 1977
- 13Silent Speech29 Jul 1977
- 14The Green Machine5 Aug 1977
- 15Horizon 200226 Aug 1977
- 16The River That Came Clean2 Sep 1977
- 17Blueprints in the Bloodstream9 Sep 1977
- 1840 Years of Murder16 Sep 1977
- 19Darwin's Dream23 Sep 1977
- 20The Cry for Help30 Sep 1977
- 21The Sunspot Mystery7 Oct 1977
- 22The Rhine's Revenge21 Oct 1977
- 23Icarus' Children2 Dec 1977
- 24The Healing Nightmare9 Dec 1977
- 25The Great Wine Revolution23 Dec 1977
Season 1978
6 Jan 1978 – 29 Dec 1978 · 24 episodes
- 1Living Machines6 Jan 1978
- 2A Land for All Reasons20 Jan 1978
- 3I Don't Want to Be a Burden27 Jan 1978
- 4Zero G3 Feb 1978
- 5The Message in the Rocks17 Feb 1978
- 6The Eddystone Lights24 Feb 1978
- 7Light of the 21st Century10 Mar 1978
- 8The New Breadline24 Mar 1978
- 9Now the Chips Are Down31 Mar 1978
- 10Explosions in the Mind14 Jul 1978
- 11One Small Step21 Jul 1978
- 12The Tsetse Trap28 Jul 1978
- 13A Whisper from Space4 Aug 1978
- 14Prisoners of Hope11 Aug 1978
- 15On a Different Track18 Aug 1978
- 16Careering Into Science25 Aug 1978
- 17Cashing In on the Ocean1 Sep 1978
- 18Bags of Life8 Sep 1978
- 19Innocent Slaughter15 Sep 1978
- 20The Beersheva Experiment3 Nov 1978
- 21Divers Do It Deeper10 Nov 1978
- 22The Big Sleep17 Nov 1978
- 23The Vital Spark24 Nov 1978
- 24The Red Deer of Rhum29 Dec 1978
Season 1979
26 Feb 1979 – 17 Dec 1979 · 25 episodes
- 1The Forever Fuel26 Feb 1979
- 2In Search of Pegasus5 Mar 1979
- 3The Keys of Paradise12 Mar 1979
- 4Sweet Solutions19 Mar 1979
- 5Bronze Age Blast-Off26 Mar 1979
- 6The Real Bionic Man2 Apr 1979
- 7A Mediterranean Prospect9 Apr 1979
- 8Elements of Risk23 Apr 1979
- 9Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland30 Apr 1979
- 10Where Nothing Happens Twice7 May 1979
- 11Journey Through the Human Body14 May 1979
- 12The Fight to Be Male21 May 1979
- 13The Robots Are Coming28 May 1979
- 14Mexican Oil Dance24 Sep 1979
- 15Tracks on the Oregon Trail1 Oct 1979
- 16The Race to Reshape Cars8 Oct 1979
- 17Dragnet for Diabetes15 Oct 1979
- 18The Lost Waters of the Nile22 Oct 1979
- 19Survival of the Fastest29 Oct 1979
- 20A Touch of Sensitivity5 Nov 1979
- 21A Treasury of Trees12 Nov 1979
- 22Darkness Visible19 Nov 1979
- 23Uranium Goes Critical3 Dec 1979
- 24The Fat in the Fire10 Dec 1979
- 25Decade17 Dec 1979
Season 1980
14 Jan 1980 – 15 Dec 1980 · 25 episodes
- 1The Ghost of the Amoco Cadiz14 Jan 1980
- 2You Are Old, Father William21 Jan 1980
- 3Cleared for Takeoff4 Feb 1980
- 4A Sporting Chance11 Feb 1980
- 5Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian18 Feb 1980
- 6The Big If...25 Feb 1980
- 7Cash from Trash3 Mar 1980
- 8Encounter with Jupiter10 Mar 1980
- 9Portrait of a Poison17 Mar 1980
- 10Magnet Earth24 Mar 1980
- 11Goodbye Gutenberg1 Sep 1980
- 12Invasion of the Virions8 Sep 1980
- 13Beyond the Milky Way15 Sep 1980
- 14Little Boxes22 Sep 1980
- 15The Other Kenya29 Sep 1980
- 16Moving Still6 Oct 1980
- 17The Way Out13 Oct 1980
- 18The Dead Sea Lives20 Oct 1980
- 19Once in a Million Years27 Oct 1980
- 20Smoker's Luck3 Nov 1980
- 21Behind the Horoscope10 Nov 1980
- 22The Mondragon Experiment17 Nov 1980
- 23The Spike24 Nov 1980
- 24The Slatemakers1 Dec 1980
- 25Anatomy of a Volcano15 Dec 1980
Season 1981
5 Jan 1981 – 21 Dec 1981 · 27 episodes
- 1Spend and Prosper5 Jan 1981
- 2A Whole New Medicine12 Jan 1981
- 3The Qualyub Project19 Jan 1981
- 4No-One Will Take Me Seriously26 Jan 1981
- 5Living with Dying2 Feb 1981
- 6A is for Atom, B is for Bomb9 Feb 1981
- 7Who Will Deliver Your Baby?16 Feb 1981
- 8West of Bangalore2 Mar 1981
- 9Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts9 Mar 1981
- 10Hello Universe!16 Mar 1981
- 11Voices from Silent Hands23 Mar 1981
- 12Did Darwin Get It Wrong?30 Mar 1981
- 13East of Bombay6 Apr 1981
- 14Resolution on Saturn - The Rings11 Apr 1981
- 15Resolution on Saturn - The Moons13 Apr 1981
- 16Heads I Win, Tails You Lose28 Sep 1981
- 17The Hunt for the Legion Killer5 Oct 1981
- 18Breaking in Children12 Oct 1981
- 19The Grid19 Oct 1981
- 20Butterflies or Barley?26 Oct 1981
- 21Science for the People2 Nov 1981
- 22The Race to Ruin9 Nov 1981
- 23Death of the Dinosaurs16 Nov 1981
- 24The Pleasure of Finding Things Out23 Nov 1981
- 25The Cornucopia30 Nov 1981
- 26The Race Against Time7 Dec 1981
- 27Painting by Numbers21 Dec 1981
Season 1982
11 Jan 1982 – 20 Dec 1982 · 22 episodes
- 1The Secret of the Snake11 Jan 1982
- 2Finding a Voice18 Jan 1982
- 3The Sea Beyond the Dunes25 Jan 1982
- 4Whatever Happened to the Energy Crisis?1 Feb 1982
- 5Notes of a Biology Watcher8 Feb 1982
- 6The Cline Affair15 Feb 1982
- 7The Million Murdering Death22 Feb 1982
- 8Shots in the Dark1 Mar 1982
- 9The Victims8 Mar 1982
- 10The Future - Made in Japan?15 Mar 1982
- 11The Private Face of Medicine22 Mar 1982
- 12The Fatal Bargain5 Apr 1982
- 13The Miracle of Life11 Oct 1982
- 14The Case of the UFOs18 Oct 1982
- 15A Killing Rain25 Oct 1982
- 16Intimate Relations1 Nov 1982
- 17The Scientist and the Baby8 Nov 1982
- 18Brave New Babies?15 Nov 1982
- 19The Professor of Surgery29 Nov 1982
- 20The Chopper6 Dec 1982
- 21The State of the Planet13 Dec 1982
- 22The Mysterious Mr. Tesla20 Dec 1982
Season 1983
10 Jan 1983 – 12 Dec 1983 · 24 episodes
- 1Sizewell Under Pressure10 Jan 1983
- 2The Tropical Time Machine17 Jan 1983
- 3The Geneva Event24 Jan 1983
- 4How Much Can You Drink?7 Feb 1983
- 5Talking Turtle14 Feb 1983
- 6What Little Girls Are Made of21 Feb 1983
- 7British Science - On the Wrong Track?28 Feb 1983
- 8The Great Plains Massacre7 Mar 1983
- 9Hard Rock14 Mar 1983
- 10Better Mind the Computer21 Mar 1983
- 11Madness on Trial11 Apr 1983
- 12Sixty Minutes to Meltdown18 Apr 1983
- 13Killer in the Village25 Apr 1983
- 14The Case of ESP26 Sep 1983
- 15The Artificial Heart3 Oct 1983
- 16Dr. Priestley and the Breath of Life10 Oct 1983
- 17Professor Hawking's Universe17 Oct 1983
- 18The Cruel Choice24 Oct 1983
- 19A Child's Guide to Languages31 Oct 1983
- 20China's Child7 Nov 1983
- 21The Earthquake Connection14 Nov 1983
- 22Prisoner or Patient?28 Nov 1983
- 23Cancer - The Pattern in the Genes5 Dec 1983
- 24The Academy12 Dec 1983
Season 1984
9 Jan 1984 – 17 Dec 1984 · 22 episodes
- 1The Intelligence Man9 Jan 1984
- 2Microworld!16 Jan 1984
- 3A New Green Revolution?23 Jan 1984
- 4Spies in the Wires30 Jan 1984
- 5Valley of the Inca13 Feb 1984
- 6The Conquest of Parasites27 Feb 1984
- 7Reflections on a River5 Mar 1984
- 8A Normal Face12 Mar 1984
- 9Prisoners of Incest19 Mar 1984
- 10Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales26 Mar 1984
- 11Professor Bonner and the Slime Moulds9 Apr 1984
- 12The Mind of a Murderer - The Case of the Hillside Strangler16 Apr 1984
- 13The Mind of a Murderer - The Mask of Madness23 Apr 1984
- 14A Cruel Inheritance30 Apr 1984
- 15The Malvern Link7 May 1984
- 16Contented Cows and Other Animals5 Nov 1984
- 17Picking Winners12 Nov 1984
- 18The Brain Puzzle19 Nov 1984
- 19Global Village26 Nov 1984
- 20Ivan3 Dec 1984
- 21A Mathematical Mystery Tour10 Dec 1984
- 22Supercharged17 Dec 1984
Season 1985
7 Jan 1985 – 29 Apr 1985 · 15 episodes
- 1Colourful Notions7 Jan 1985
- 2A World of Their Own14 Jan 1985
- 3Decoding Danebury21 Jan 1985
- 4A Mission to Heal28 Jan 1985
- 5The Mystery of the Left Hand4 Feb 1985
- 6The Theatre of War11 Feb 1985
- 7The Careful Predator25 Feb 1985
- 8What Einstein Never Knew4 Mar 1985
- 9Eurekaaargh!11 Mar 1985
- 10Careering On18 Mar 1985
- 11How to Film the Impossible25 Mar 1985
- 12The Food Allergy War1 Apr 1985
- 13The Goddess of the Earth15 Apr 1985
- 14IRAS - The Supercooled Eye22 Apr 1985
- 15A Prize Discovery29 Apr 1985
Season 1986
6 Jan 1986 – 30 Jun 1986 · 23 episodes
- 1Are You a Racist?6 Jan 1986
- 2Genesis13 Jan 1986
- 3Bitter Cold20 Jan 1986
- 4The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe27 Jan 1986
- 5Outbreak: The Microbe Masters the Mould3 Feb 1986
- 6The Wrong Stuff10 Feb 1986
- 7Science...Fiction?17 Feb 1986
- 8The Children of Eve24 Feb 1986
- 9The New Face of Leprosy3 Mar 1986
- 10Hi-Tech a la Francaise10 Mar 1986
- 11In the Wake of HMS Sheffield17 Mar 1986
- 12AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus24 Mar 1986
- 13The Case of the Frozen Addicts7 Apr 1986
- 14Nice Guys Finish First14 Apr 1986
- 15The Men Who Bottled a Cow21 Apr 1986
- 16Twice Five Plus the Wings of a Bird28 Apr 1986
- 17What Makes an Animal Smart?12 May 1986
- 18A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt19 May 1986
- 19Uranus Encounter26 May 1986
- 20Who Built Stonehenge?9 Jun 1986
- 21Battered Baby - From Generation to Generation16 Jun 1986
- 22Battered Baby - Breaking the Chain23 Jun 1986
- 23Doctors to Be30 Jun 1986
Season 1987
5 Jan 1987 – 29 Jun 1987 · 23 episodes
- 1The Twentyfive Hour Clock5 Jan 1987
- 2The Search for the Disappeared12 Jan 1987
- 3The Blind Watchmaker19 Jan 1987
- 4Riding the Stack26 Jan 1987
- 5Bruno Bettelheim: The Man Who Cared for Children2 Feb 1987
- 6Bruno Bettelheim: A Sense of Surviving9 Feb 1987
- 7Energy from Outer Space16 Feb 1987
- 8The Return of the Osprey23 Feb 1987
- 9Can AIDS Be Stopped2 Mar 1987
- 10Police Stress: The John Wayne Syndrome9 Mar 1987
- 11To Engineer is Human16 Mar 1987
- 12The Magma Chamber23 Mar 1987
- 13Broken Images30 Mar 1987
- 14Trial Babies6 Apr 1987
- 15After Chernobyl - Closer to Home13 Apr 1987
- 16Life Story27 Apr 1987
- 17Making Sex Pay11 May 1987
- 18The Anthropic Principle18 May 1987
- 19Aircrash: The Burning Issue1 Jun 1987
- 20The Riddle of the Joints8 Jun 1987
- 21To Catch a Falling Star15 May 1987
- 22In the Light of New Information22 Jun 1987
- 23Janice's Choice29 Jun 1987
Season 1988
4 Jan 1988 – 4 Jul 1988 · 25 episodes
- 1The Transplanted Brain4 Jan 1988
- 2Death of a Star11 Jan 1988
- 3Playing with Madness18 Jan 1988
- 4The Canal in the Jungle25 Jan 1988
- 5Death of the Working Classes1 Feb 1988
- 6The Greenhouse Effect8 Feb 1988
- 7Struggling for Control15 Feb 1988
- 8Thinking22 Feb 1988
- 9Patients on Trial29 Feb 1988
- 10Purple Warrior - Rules of Engagement7 Mar 1988
- 11Purple Warrior - Limited War14 Mar 1988
- 12The Heart of Another28 Mar 1988
- 13Easter Island - The Secrets11 Apr 1988
- 14Easter Island - The Story18 Apr 1988
- 15Doctors to Be - Trial by Interview23 Apr 1988
- 16Doctors to Be - The Knowledge24 Apr 1988
- 17Doctors to Be - Welcome to the Real World25 Apr 1988
- 18Cancer at Bay2 May 1988
- 19Traces of Murder9 May 1988
- 20The Hope of Progress16 May 1988
- 21A Newsday Revolution23 May 1988
- 22A Good Test?6 Jun 1988
- 23Superconductor - The Race for the Prize13 Jun 1988
- 24Believe Me27 Jun 1988
- 25The Quest for Tannu Tuva4 Jul 1988
Season 1989
9 Jan 1989 – 26 Jun 1989 · 20 episodes
- 1The Book of Man9 Jan 1989
- 2The Poison That Waits16 Jan 1989
- 3Perils of the Deep23 Jan 1989
- 4Smart Weapons30 Jan 1989
- 5Wasting the Alps6 Feb 1989
- 6In the Last Resort13 Feb 1989
- 7Gaze in Wonder20 Feb 1989
- 8In My Lifetime?27 Feb 1989
- 9Concerto6 Mar 1989
- 10Black Schizophrenia13 Mar 1989
- 11Trial in the Jungle20 Mar 1989
- 12Who Will Make Me Better?3 Apr 1989
- 13A Wonderful Life17 Apr 1989
- 14Why Buildings Make You Sick24 Apr 1989
- 15Jubilee8 May 1989
- 16Crash15 May 1989
- 17The New Sixth Sense22 May 1989
- 18Clive Sinclair: The Anatomy of an Inventor12 Jun 1989
- 19Newpin: A Lifetime19 Jun 1989
- 20Time of Darkness26 Jun 1989
Season 1990
8 Jan 1990 – 25 Jun 1990 · 20 episodes
- 1Oil Spill8 Jan 1990
- 2Medicine 200015 Jan 1990
- 3Food Irradiation: Would You Buy It?22 Jan 1990
- 4From Earth to Miranda29 Jan 1990
- 5Encounter with Neptune5 Feb 1990
- 6Guess What's Coming to Dinner?12 Feb 1990
- 7The First 14 Days19 Feb 1990
- 8The 10,000 Year Test5 Mar 1990
- 9Hurricane!12 Mar 1990
- 10The Britannic Greenhouse19 Mar 1990
- 11Cold Fusion26 Mar 1990
- 12The Quake of '89 - The Final Warning?2 Apr 1990
- 13The Sharpest Show of the Universe9 Apr 1990
- 14The Company of Ants and Bees23 Apr 1990
- 15The Intelligent Island30 Apr 1990
- 16Legacy of a Volcano14 May 1990
- 17Do Cows Make You Mad?21 May 1990
- 18The Child Mothers4 Jun 1990
- 19Signs of Life11 Jun 1990
- 20AIDS: A Quest for a Cure25 Jun 1990
Season 1991
7 Jan 1991 – 1 Jul 1991 · 23 episodes
- 1Sudden Death7 Jan 1991
- 2Keen as Mustard14 Jan 1991
- 3Smokers Can Harm Your Health21 Jan 1991
- 4Coming In from the Cold28 Jan 1991
- 5Small Problems with the Mirror4 Feb 1991
- 6Two Weeks to Save the Earth10 Feb 1991
- 7California Dreaming11 Feb 1991
- 8The Day the Earth Melted25 Feb 1991
- 9The Curse of Karash25 Feb 1991
- 10Playing at Noah4 Mar 1991
- 11Cashing in on Paradise11 Mar 1991
- 12The Terracotta Time Machine18 Mar 1991
- 13Measuring the Roof of the World25 Mar 1991
- 14The First Americans15 Apr 1991
- 15Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus22 Apr 1991
- 16Colonising Cyberspace29 Apr 1991
- 17Emerging Viruses13 May 1991
- 18Camelford - A Bitter Aftertaste20 May 1991
- 19Of Big Bangs, Stick Men and Galactic Holes3 Jun 1991
- 20Food for Thought10 Jun 1991
- 21The Long Road to the West17 Jun 1991
- 22Half Hearted About Semi-Skimmed24 Jun 1991
- 23T-Rex Exposed1 Jul 1991
Season 1992
6 Jan 1992 – 15 Jun 1992 · 19 episodes
- 1The Shadow of Breast Cancer6 Jan 1992
- 2Pest Wars13 Jan 1992
- 3Molecules with Sunglasses20 Jan 1992
- 4In Search of the Noble Savage27 Jan 1992
- 5Malaria: Battle of the Merozoites3 Feb 1992
- 6The Black Sun17 Feb 1992
- 7Hitler's Bomb24 Feb 1992
- 8An Expensive Theology2 Mar 1992
- 9The Strange Life and Death of Dr. Turing9 Mar 1992
- 10Hot Jam in the Doughnut16 Mar 1992
- 11A Diet for a Lifetime30 Mar 1992
- 12Before Babel6 Apr 1992
- 13The Man Who Moved the Mountains13 Apr 1992
- 14Iceman27 Apr 1992
- 15Taking the Credit11 May 1992
- 16Fast Life in the Food Chain18 May 1992
- 17Dodging Doomsday1 Jun 1992
- 18A Question of Sport...8 Jun 1992
- 19Genes R Us15 Jun 1992
Season 1993
4 Jan 1993 – 28 Jun 1993 · 21 episodes
- 1Awakening the Frozen Addicts4 Jan 1993
- 2Cheating Time11 Jan 1993
- 3TB - The Forgotten Plague18 Jan 1993
- 4No Ordinary Genius (1)25 Jan 1993
- 5No Ordinary Genius (2)1 Feb 1993
- 6Mars Alive8 Feb 1993
- 7Suggers, Fruggers and Data-Muggers15 Feb 1993
- 8The Pyramid Builders22 Feb 1993
- 9Here Be Monsters1 Mar 1993
- 10Iceman (Update)8 Mar 1993
- 11Whatever Happened to Star Wars15 Mar 1993
- 12Resurrecting the Dead Sea Scrolls22 Mar 1993
- 13Dante Goes to Hell29 Mar 1993
- 14Ghosts in the Dinosaur Graveyard5 Apr 1993
- 15The New Alchemists19 Apr 1993
- 16Allergic to the 20th Century10 May 1993
- 17Wot U Looking At?24 May 1993
- 18The Electronic Frontier7 Jun 1993
- 19A Vital Poison14 Jun 1993
- 20Chimp Talk21 Jun 1993
- 21Life is Impossible28 Jun 1993
Season 1994
10 Jan 1994 – 19 Dec 1994 · 21 episodes
- 1Small Arms, Soft Targets10 Jan 1994
- 2The Last Mammoth17 Jan 1994
- 3The Man Who Made Up His Mind24 Jan 1994
- 4Genie31 Jan 1994
- 5Death Wish - The Untold Story7 Feb 1994
- 6Air Crash - The Deadly Puzzle14 Feb 1994
- 7Hunt for the Doomsday Asteroid28 Feb 1994
- 8Hubble Vision7 Mar 1994
- 9Some Like It Hot14 Mar 1994
- 10Too Close to the Sun21 Mar 1994
- 11Sir Walter's Journey28 Mar 1994
- 12After the Flood18 Apr 1994
- 13Against the Clock25 Apr 1994
- 14The Blueprints of Genocide9 May 1994
- 15Ulcer Wars16 May 1994
- 16Deaf Whale, Dead Whale7 Nov 1994
- 17Whispers of Creation14 Nov 1994
- 18The Predator21 Nov 1994
- 19Close Encounters28 Nov 1994
- 20Orange Sherbet Kisses12 Dec 1994
- 21Designer Wines19 Dec 1994
Season 1995
9 Jan 1995 – 11 Dec 1995 · 20 episodes
- 1Tibet - The Ice Mother9 Jan 1995
- 2Russia's Deep Secrets16 Jan 1995
- 3Bones of Contention23 Jan 1995
- 4Siamese Twins30 Jan 1995
- 5Too Big Too Soon?20 Feb 1992
- 6Farewell Fantastic Venus27 Feb 1995
- 7Exodus6 Mar 1995
- 8The Betrayers13 Mar 1995
- 9Icon Earth20 Mar 1995
- 10The I-Bomb27 Mar 1995
- 11Foetal Attraction3 Apr 1995
- 12Cracks in the Crust10 Apr 1995
- 13Hearing Voices24 Apr 1995
- 14Liar30 Oct 1995
- 15The Human Laboratory6 Nov 1995
- 16Nanotopia13 Nov 1995
- 17Hunt for the Doomsday Asteroid (Update)20 Nov 1995
- 18A Code in the Nose27 Nov 1995
- 19AIDS: Behind Closed Doors4 Dec 1995
- 20The Runaway Mountain11 Dec 1995
Season 1996
8 Jan 1996 – 16 Dec 1996 · 16 episodes
- 1The Butchers of Boxgrove8 Jan 1996
- 2Fermat's Last Theorem15 Jan 1996
- 3A Miracle for Cancer ?22 Jan 1996
- 4Nature's Numbers29 Jan 1996
- 5The Gene Race5 Feb 1996
- 6Masters of the Ionosphere12 Feb 1996
- 7Assault on the Male (revisited)26 Feb 1996
- 8Death by Design4 Mar 1996
- 9The Planet Hunters11 Mar 1996
- 10Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update)25 Mar 1996
- 11Fallout from Chernobyl1 Apr 1996
- 12TV is Dead, Long Live TV4 Nov 1996
- 13Aliens from Mars11 Nov 1996
- 14Living Death25 Nov 1996
- 15The Time Lords2 Dec 1996
- 16Noah's Flood16 Dec 1996
Season 1997
27 Feb 1997 – 23 Oct 1997 · 15 episodes
- 1Psychedelic Science27 Feb 1997
- 2Fat Cats, Thin Mice6 Mar 1997
- 3Shipwreck13 Mar 1997
- 4Genius of the Jet20 Mar 1997
- 5Smallpox on Death Row27 Mar 1997
- 6Silent Children, New Language3 Apr 1997
- 7Turned On by Danger17 Apr 1997
- 8A Perfect Oil Spill24 Apr 1997
- 9The Great Balloon Race1 May 1997
- 10Crater of Death11 Sep 1997
- 11Mind Over Body18 Sep 1997
- 12Out of Asia25 Sep 1997
- 13The Virus That Cures9 Oct 1997
- 14The Man Who Lost His Body16 Oct 1997
- 15Dawn of the Clone Age23 Oct 1997
Season 1998
19 Feb 1998 – 5 Nov 1998 · 18 episodes
- 1Saddam's Secrets19 Feb 1998
- 2Dr Miller and the Islanders26 Feb 1998
- 3The Rainmaker5 Mar 1998
- 4Hopeful Monsters19 Mar 1998
- 5The Limits to Birth26 Mar 1998
- 6Overkill2 Apr 1998
- 7The Curse of Vesuvius16 Apr 1998
- 8Mir Mortals23 Apr 1998
- 9The Computer That Ate Hollywood30 Apr 1998
- 10Magic Bullet7 May 1998
- 11The Gulf War Jigsaw14 May 1998
- 12Sexual Chemistry10 Sep 1998
- 13Chimps on Death Row1 Oct 1998
- 14Dinosaurs in Your Garden8 Oct 1998
- 15Mosquito!15 Oct 1998
- 16The Life and Times of Life and Time22 Oct 1998
- 17Thalidomide: A Necessary Evil29 Oct 1998
- 18Beyond a Joke5 Nov 1998
Season 1999
28 Jan 1999 – 2 Dec 1999 · 13 episodes
- 1From Here to Infinity28 Jan 1999
- 2Pandemic4 Feb 1999
- 3Elephants or Ivory11 Feb 1999
- 4Electric Heart18 Feb 1999
- 5Sudden Death25 Feb 1999
- 6New Star in Orbit11 Mar 1999
- 7New Asteroid Danger18 Mar 1999
- 8Skeleton Key25 Mar 1999
- 9Wings of Angels1 Aug 1999
- 10Mistaken Identity11 Nov 1999
- 11Volcanoes of the Deep18 Nov 1999
- 12Anatomy of an Avalanche25 Nov 1999
- 13The Midas Formula2 Dec 1999
Season 2000
13 Jan 2000 – 14 Dec 2000 · 20 episodes
- 1Breath of Life13 Jan 2000
- 2Lost City of Nasca20 Jan 2000
- 3The Diamond Makers27 Jan 2000
- 4Supervolcanoes3 Feb 2000
- 5Miracle in Orbit10 Feb 2000
- 6Complete Obsession - Body Dysmorphia17 Feb 2000
- 7Is GM Safe?9 Mar 2000
- 8Planet Hunters16 Mar 2000
- 9Constant Craving: The Science of Addiction30 Mar 2000
- 10Moon Children4 Apr 2000
- 11Mega-Tsunami: Wave of Destruction12 Oct 2000
- 12Conjoined Twins19 Oct 2000
- 13The Lost World of Lake Vostok26 Oct 2000
- 14Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared2 Nov 2000
- 15The Secret Treasures of Zeugma9 Nov 2000
- 16The Valley of Life or Death16 Nov 2000
- 17Extreme Dinosaurs23 Nov 2000
- 18Supermassive Black Holes30 Nov 2000
- 19The Boy Who Was Turned Into a Girl7 Dec 2000
- 20Atlantis Reborn Again14 Dec 2000
Season 2001
25 Jan 2001 – 25 Oct 2001 · 11 episodes
- 1The Mystery of the Miami Circle25 Jan 2001
- 2The Missing Link1 Feb 2001
- 3Killer Algae8 Feb 2001
- 4Ecstasy and Agony15 Feb 2001
- 5Snowball Earth22 Feb 2001
- 6Taming the Problem Child6 Mar 2001
- 7The Mystery of the Persian Mummy20 Sep 2001
- 8The Ape That Took Over the World4 Oct 2001
- 9Life Blood11 Oct 2001
- 10The Death Star18 Oct 2001
- 11Cloning the First Human25 Oct 2001
Season 2002
10 Jan 2002 – 19 Dec 2002 · 18 episodes
- 1Helike - The Real Atlantis10 Jan 2002
- 2Volcano Hell17 Jan 2002
- 3Fatbusters24 Jan 2002
- 4The Lost Pyramids of Caral31 Jan 2002
- 5Death of the Iceman7 Feb 2002
- 6Parallel Universes14 Feb 2002
- 7The Dinosaur That Fooled the World21 Feb 2002
- 8The Fall of the World Trade Center7 Mar 2002
- 9Archimedes' Secret14 Mar 2002
- 10The Mystery of the Jurassic28 Mar 2002
- 11Killer Lakes4 Apr 2002
- 12The A6 Murder16 May 2002
- 13The England Patient23 May 2002
- 14Freak Wave14 Nov 2002
- 15Stone Age Columbus21 Nov 2002
- 16Homeopathy: The Test26 Nov 2002
- 17The Day the Earth Nearly Died5 Dec 2002
- 18The Secret of El Dorado19 Dec 2002
Season 2003
9 Jan 2003 – 18 Dec 2003 · 19 episodes
- 1The Mystery of Easter Island9 Jan 2003
- 2Living Nightmare16 Jan 2003
- 3Averting Armageddon23 Jan 2003
- 4Dirty Bomb30 Jan 2003
- 5Sexual Chemistry (Update)13 Feb 2003
- 6The Day We Learned to Think20 Feb 2003
- 7Trial and Error27 Feb 2003
- 8Earthquake Storms6 Mar 2003
- 9Life on Mars (Update)27 Mar 2003
- 10The Secret Life of Caves3 Apr 2003
- 11God on the Brain17 Apr 2003
- 12Flight 5878 May 2003
- 13SARS: The True Story29 May 2003
- 14The Big Chill13 Nov 2003
- 15The Bible Code20 Nov 2003
- 16Last Flight of the Columbia27 Nov 2003
- 17The Hunt for an AIDS Vaccine4 Dec 2003
- 18Percy Pilcher's Flying Machine11 Dec 2003
- 19Time Trip18 Dec 2003
Season 2004
8 Jan 2004 – 4 Nov 2004 · 18 episodes
- 1The Demonic Ape8 Jan 2004
- 2The Moscow Theatre Siege15 Jan 2004
- 3The Atkins Diet22 Jan 2004
- 4Secrets of the Star Disc29 Jan 2004
- 5The Dark Secret of Hendrik Schön5 Feb 2004
- 6Thalidomide - A Second Chance?12 Feb 2004
- 7Diamond Labs4 Mar 2004
- 8T-Rex - Warrior or Wimp?11 Mar 2004
- 9Project Poltergeist18 Mar 2004
- 10The Truth of Troy25 Mar 2004
- 11The Truth About Vitamins16 Sep 2004
- 12King Solomon's Tablet of Stone23 Sep 2004
- 13Derek Tastes of Earwax30 Sep 2004
- 14What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?7 Oct 2004
- 15Making Millions the Easy Way14 Oct 2004
- 16Saturn - Lord of the Rings21 Oct 2004
- 17The Hunt for the Supertwister28 Oct 2004
- 18Dr. Money and the Boy with No Penis4 Nov 2004
Season 2005
13 Jan 2005 – 15 Dec 2005 · 20 episodes
- 1Global Dimming13 Jan 2005
- 2Einstein's Unfinished Symphony20 Jan 2005
- 3Einstein's Equation of Life and Death27 Jan 2005
- 4Living with ADHD3 Mar 2005
- 5Neanderthal10 Feb 2005
- 6An Experiment to Save the World17 Feb 2005
- 7Who's Afraid of Designer Babies?24 Feb 2005
- 8The Lost Civilisation of Peru3 Mar 2005
- 9The Next Megaquake22 May 2005
- 10Does the MMR Jab Cause Autism?29 May 2005
- 11Malaria: Defeating the Curse5 Jun 2005
- 12Tsunami: Naming the Dead1 Sep 2005
- 13The Hawking Paradox8 Sep 2005
- 14The Mystery of the Human Hobbit15 Sep 2005
- 15The Doctor Who Makes People Walk Again?6 Oct 2005
- 16Can Fish Make My Child Smart?6 Oct 2005
- 17Madagascar - A Treetop Odyssey13 Oct 2005
- 18Titan. A Place Like Home?10 Nov 2005
- 19The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation8 Dec 2005
- 20The Ghost in Your Genes15 Dec 2005
Season 2006
3 Jan 2006 – 14 Nov 2006 · 20 episodes
- 1The Life and Times of El Niño3 Jan 2006
- 2Space Tourists12 Jan 2006
- 3Waiting for a Heartbeat19 Jan 2006
- 4A War on Science26 Jan 2006
- 5The Lost City of New Orleans2 Feb 2006
- 6Most of Our Universe is Missing9 Feb 2006
- 7Winning Gold in 201218 Mar 2006
- 8The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow8 Jun 2006
- 9The Genius Sperm Bank15 Jun 2006
- 10Bye Bye Planet Pluto22 Jun 2006
- 11We Love Cigarettes29 Jun 2006
- 12Nuclear Nightmares13 Jul 2006
- 13Tutankhamun's Fireball20 Jul 2006
- 14Survivors Guide to Plane Crashes3 Oct 2006
- 15Chimps Are People Too10 Oct 2006
- 16The Worlds First Face Transplant17 Oct 2006
- 17Human v2.024 Oct 2006
- 18The Great Robot Race31 Oct 2006
- 19Pandemic7 Nov 2006
- 20We Are the Aliens14 Nov 2006
Season 2007
13 Mar 2007 – 8 May 2007 · 9 episodes
- 1My Pet Dinosaur13 Mar 2007
- 2The Elephant's Guide to Sex20 Mar 2007
- 3Prof Regan's Beauty Parlour27 Mar 2007
- 4Mad But Glad3 Apr 2007
- 5Moon for Sale10 Apr 2007
- 6Battle of the Brains17 Apr 2007
- 7Skyscraper Fire Fighters24 Apr 2007
- 8The Six Billion Dollar Experiment1 May 2007
- 9How to Commit the Perfect Murder8 May 2007
Season 2008
15 Jan 2008 – 16 Dec 2008 · 17 episodes
- 1How to Kill a Human Being15 Jan 2008
- 2Total Isolation22 Jan 2008
- 3What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity?29 Jan 2008
- 4Is Alcohol Worse Than Ecstasy?5 Feb 2008
- 5How to Make Better Decisions12 Feb 2008
- 6How to Live to Be 10119 Feb 2008
- 7Prof. Regan's Supermarket Secrets26 Feb 2008
- 8Are We Alone in the Universe?4 Mar 2008
- 9How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?18 Mar 2008
- 10How Does Your Memory Work?25 Mar 2008
- 11The President's Guide to Science16 Sep 2008
- 12How Mad Are You? (1 of 2)11 Nov 2008
- 13How Mad Are You? (2 of 2)18 Nov 2008
- 14Jimmy's GM Food Fight25 Nov 2008
- 15Do You Know What Time It Is?2 Dec 2008
- 16Allergy Planet9 Dec 2008
- 17Where's My Robot?16 Dec 2008
Season 2009
26 Jan 2009 – 9 Dec 2009 · 18 episodes
- 1Why Are Thin People Not Fat?26 Jan 2009
- 2Cannabis: The Evil Weed?3 Feb 2009
- 3Why Do We Dream?10 Feb 2009
- 4Can We Make a Star on Earth?17 Feb 2009
- 5The Secret Life of Your Bodyclock24 Feb 2009
- 6What's the Problem with Nudity?3 Mar 2009
- 7How to Survive a Disaster10 Mar 2009
- 8Who Do You Want Your Child to Be?17 Mar 2009
- 9Why Can't We Predict Earthquakes?24 Mar 2009
- 10Alan and Marcus Go Forth and Multiply31 Mar 2009
- 11How Violent Are You?12 May 2009
- 12Do I Drink Too Much?13 Oct 2009
- 13The Secret You20 Oct 2009
- 14Fix Me27 Oct 2009
- 15Who's Afraid of a Big Black Hole?3 Nov 2009
- 16Why Do We Talk?10 Nov 2009
- 17How Long is a Piece of String?17 Nov 2009
- 18How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?9 Dec 2009
Season 2010
6 Jan 2010 – 16 Nov 2010 · 15 episodes
- 1The Secret Life of the Dog6 Jan 2010
- 2Why Do Viruses Kill?13 Jan 2010
- 3Pill Poppers20 Jan 2010
- 4Don't Grow Old3 Feb 2010
- 5To Infinity and Beyond10 Feb 2010
- 6What Makes a Genius?17 Feb 2010
- 7Did Cooking Make Us Human?2 Mar 2010
- 8Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong?9 Mar 2010
- 9Back from the Dead27 Sep 2010
- 10The Death of the Oceans4 Oct 2010
- 11What Happened Before the Big Bang?11 Oct 2010
- 12Is Seeing Believing?18 Oct 2010
- 13Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome25 Oct 2010
- 14Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly3 Nov 2010
- 15Deepwater Disaster - The Untold Story16 Nov 2010
Season 2011
10 Jan 2011 – 14 Sep 2011 · 14 episodes
- 1What is One Degree?10 Jan 2011
- 2What is Reality?17 Jan 2011
- 3Science Under Attack24 Jan 2011
- 4The Secret World of Pain31 Jan 2011
- 5Surviving a Car Crash7 Feb 2011
- 6How to Mend a Broken Heart14 Feb 2011
- 7Are We Still Evolving?1 Mar 2011
- 8Predators in Your Backyard8 Mar 2011
- 9Do You See What I See8 Aug 2011
- 10Seeing Stars15 Aug 2011
- 11The Nine Months That Made You22 Aug 2011
- 12The Core31 Aug 2011
- 13Are You Good or Evil?7 Sep 2011
- 14Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?14 Sep 2011
Season 2012
17 Jan 2012 – 10 Sep 2012 · 15 episodes
- 1Playing God17 Jan 2012
- 2The Truth About Exercise28 Feb 2012
- 3Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth6 Mar 2012
- 4Out of Control?13 Mar 2012
- 5The Truth About Fat20 Mar 2012
- 6Global Weirding27 Mar 2012
- 7The Hunt for AI3 Apr 2012
- 8Defeating Cancer10 Apr 2012
- 9The Transit of Venus5 Jun 2012
- 10The Truth About Looking Younger23 Jul 2012
- 11Mission to Mars30 Jul 2012
- 12Eat, Fast and Live Longer6 Aug 2012
- 13How Big is the Universe?27 Aug 2012
- 14How Small is the Universe?3 Sep 2012
- 15Defeating the Superbugs10 Sep 2012
Season 2013
14 Mar 2013 – 26 Aug 2013 · 13 episodes
- 1The Creative Brain: How Insight Works14 Mar 2013
- 2How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery21 Mar 2013
- 3The Truth About Taste28 Mar 2013
- 4The Age of Big Data4 Apr 2013
- 5The Secret Life of the Cat13 Jun 2013
- 6Little Cat Diaries14 Jun 2013
- 7Fracking: The New Energy Rush19 Jun 2013
- 8Swallowed by a Black Hole26 Jun 2013
- 9What Makes Us Human?3 Jul 2013
- 10The Truth About Personality10 Jul 2013
- 11Monitor Me12 Aug 2013
- 12Defeating the Hackers19 Aug 2013
- 13Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life26 Aug 2013
Season 2014
29 Jan 2014 – 29 Sep 2014 · 15 episodes
- 1Sugar vs. Fat29 Jan 2014
- 2Swallowed by a Sink Hole3 Feb 2014
- 3Man on Mars - Mission to the Red Planet10 Feb 2014
- 4The Power of the Placebo17 Feb 2014
- 5How You Really Make Decisions24 Feb 2014
- 6Living with Autism1 Apr 2014
- 7The £10 Million Challenge22 May 2014
- 8Where is Flight MH370?17 Jun 2014
- 9What's Wrong with Our Weather?17 Jul 2014
- 10Should I Eat Meat? - The Big Health Dilemma18 Aug 2014
- 11Should I Eat Meat? - How to Feed the Planet20 Aug 2014
- 12Allergies: Modern Life and Me27 Aug 2014
- 13Inside the Dark Web3 Sep 2014
- 14Ebola - The Search for a Cure10 Sep 2014
- 15Is Your Brain Male or Female?29 Sep 2014
Season 2015
3 Mar 2015 – 16 Sep 2015 · 12 episodes
- 1Secrets of the Solar System3 Mar 2015
- 2Aftershock: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves10 Mar 2015
- 3Dancing in the Dark - The End of Physics?17 Mar 2015
- 470 Million Animal Mummies: Egypt's Dark Secret11 May 2015
- 5Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad?20 May 2015
- 6The Trouble with Space Junk5 Aug 2015
- 7Are Health Tests Really a Good Idea?12 Aug 2015
- 8First Britons19 Aug 2015
- 9OCD: A Monster in My Mind26 Aug 2015
- 10Which Universe Are We In?2 Sep 2015
- 11Cosmic Dawn: The Real Moment of Creation9 Sep 2015
- 12Are Video Games Really That Bad?16 Sep 2015
Season 2016
16 Mar 2016 – 23 Oct 2016 · 17 episodes
- 1The Immortalist16 Mar 2016
- 2Project Greenglow - The Quest for Gravity Control23 Mar 2016
- 3The Mystery of Dark Energy30 Mar 2016
- 4Oceans of the Solar System6 Apr 2016
- 5The End of the Solar System13 Apr 2016
- 6Should We Close Our Zoos?17 Apr 2016
- 7How to Find Love Online25 Apr 2016
- 8Ice Station Antarctica4 May 2016
- 9Curing Alzheimer's11 May 2016
- 10E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?22 May 2016
- 11Why Are We Getting So Fat7 Jun 2016
- 12Sports Doping - Winning at Any Cost?19 Jul 2016
- 13Special - Inside Cern10 Aug 2016
- 14My Amazing Twin25 Aug 2016
- 15Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter11 Sep 2016
- 16The Lost Tribes of Humanity12 Oct 2016
- 17The Wildest Weather in the Universe23 Oct 2016
Season 2017
19 Jan 2017 – 26 Sep 2017 · 15 episodes
- 1Clean Eating - The Dirty Truth19 Jan 2017
- 2Hair Care Secrets23 Jan 2017
- 3ADHD and Me with Rory Bremner25 Apr 2017
- 4Why Did I Go Mad?2 May 2017
- 5Strange Signals from Outer Space!16 May 2017
- 6Volcanoes of the Solar System23 May 2017
- 7Antarctica - Ice Station Rescue7 Jun 2017
- 8Cyber Attack - The Day the NHS Stopped12 Jun 2017
- 910 Things You Need to Know About the Future19 Jun 2017
- 10Dawn of the Driverless Car29 Jun 2017
- 11Dippy and the Whale13 Jul 2017
- 12What Makes a Psychopath?29 Aug 2017
- 13Mars - A Traveller's Guide12 Sep 2017
- 14Goodbye Cassini - Hello Saturn18 Sep 2017
- 15Being Transgender26 Sep 2017
Season 2018
5 Feb 2018 – 21 Nov 2018 · 13 episodes
- 1My Amazing Brain: Richard's War5 Feb 2018
- 2Teenagers vs Cancer: A User's Guide26 Jun 2018
- 3How to Build a Time Machine10 Jul 2018
- 4Spina Bifida & Me26 Jul 2018
- 5Jupiter Revealed7 Aug 2018
- 6Stopping Male Suicide22 Aug 2018
- 7A Week Without Lying - The Honesty Experiment29 Aug 2018
- 8The Placebo Experiment: Can My Brain Cure My Body?4 Oct 2018
- 9Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick?11 Oct 2018
- 10Avalanche: Making a Deadly Snowstorm18 Oct 2018
- 11Vitamin Pills: Miracle or Myth?25 Oct 2018
- 12Diagnosis on Demand? The Computer Will See You Now1 Nov 2018
- 13The Contraceptive Pill: How Safe Is It?21 Nov 2018
Season 2019
23 Jan 2019 – 28 Aug 2019 · 7 episodes
- 1We Need to Talk about Death23 Jan 2019
- 2Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me21 May 2019
- 3Britain's Next Air Disaster? Drones1 Jul 2019
- 4The Honest Supermarket: What's Really in Our Food?8 Jul 2019
- 5Inside the Social Network: Facebook's Difficult Year16 Jul 2019
- 6The 250 Million Pound Cancer Cure22 Jul 2019
- 7Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug?28 Aug 2019
Season 2020
16 Jan 2020 – 6 Jul 2020 · 10 episodes
- 1Addicted to Painkillers? Britain's Opioid Crisis16 Jan 2020
- 2Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting21 Jan 2020
- 3Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings23 Mar 2020
- 4Coronavirus Special - Part 19 Apr 2020
- 5The Restaurant that Burns Off Calories20 Apr 2020
- 6Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed24 Apr 2020
- 7The Great British Intelligence Test4 May 2020
- 8Coronavirus Special - Part 219 May 2020
- 9What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?21 May 2020
- 10Pluto: Back From the Dead6 Jul 2020
Season 2021
4 Jan 2021 – 16 Jun 2021 · 3 episodes
- 1Feast to Save the Planet4 Jan 2021
- 2Coronavirus Special - What We Know Now25 Feb 2021
- 3Horizon Special: The Vaccine16 Jun 2021
Season 2022
31 Mar 2022 – 14 Jul 2022 · 3 episodes
- 1How to Sleep Well with Michael Mosley31 Mar 2022
- 2Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry2 Jun 2022
- 3Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe14 Jul 2022
Season 2024
Season 2025
18 Aug 2025 · 1 episode
- 1Confessions of a Brain Surgeon18 Aug 2025
Season 2026
15 Apr 2026 · 1 episode
- 1Artemis: To the Moon and Back15 Apr 2026
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