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Equinox
Equinox was a long-running Channel 4 popular science and documentary programme. The series ran from 1986 to 2001, originally aired on a weekly basis. The number of films per series fell over the years, from eighteen one-hour films a year originally to twelve by the late 1990s. The last regular series was shown in 2001, with six films. One-off films have occasionally been aired under the title "Equinox Special"
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Seasons (18)
Season 1986
- 1Turbo - Once Round the Block31 Jul 1986
- 2Turbo - Qualifying Boost7 Aug 1986
- 3Prisoner of Conciousness14 Aug 1986
- 4A Short History of the Future the City21 Aug 1986
- 5A Short History of the Future Spaceship28 Aug 1986
- 6The Tin Snail4 Sep 1986
- 7Deep Trouble11 Sep 1986
- 8What They Don't Tell You When They Sell You a Computer18 Sep 1986
- 9Precisely in Profit25 Sep 1986
- 10Now Eat This2 Oct 1986
- 11Growing Up with Rockets9 Oct 1986
- 12Shock Trauma16 Oct 1986
- 13Drink Drive and Murder23 Oct 1986
- 14The New Magicians30 Oct 1986
- 15Pioneers of the Future6 Nov 1986
- 16Skyscraper13 Nov 1986
Season 1987
- 1Freud Under Analysis17 Feb 1987
- 2Mission to Mars23 Jul 1987
- 3Playing with Fire30 Jul 1987
- 4Weather Forecast6 Aug 1987
- 5Turbo - Made to Measure13 Aug 1987
- 6Twang, Bang, Kerang!20 Aug 1987
- 7What Goes Up...27 Aug 1987
- 8Hole in the Sky3 Sep 1987
- 9You Want Bells on It?10 Sep 1987
- 10Dirty Money24 Sep 1987
- 11Malltime1 Oct 1987
- 12Anything You Can Do...8 Oct 1987
- 13Command and Control22 Oct 1987
- 14Letters from an Indian Clerk29 Oct 1987
- 15Earthquake Country5 Nov 1987
- 16Nature's Technology12 Nov 1987
- 17Britain Can Make It?19 Nov 1987
- 18At the Edge26 Nov 1987
Season 1988
- 1Running to Time11 Feb 1988
- 2Playing with Fire (Revised)12 Feb 1988
- 3The Air Fix17 Jul 1988
- 4Nic's Boat24 Jul 1988
- 5The Living Dead31 Jul 1988
- 6Zen and the Art of TV Manufacture7 Aug 1988
- 7How Good is Soviet Science?14 Aug 1988
- 8Toys for the Boys21 Aug 1988
- 9Cold Spring, Morning Sun28 Aug 1988
- 10Taking the Tunnel18 Sep 1988
- 11Road Test25 Sep 1988
- 12Look, No Hands!9 Oct 1988
- 13Spytech16 Oct 1988
- 14Bamboo23 Oct 1988
- 15Heavy Metal30 Oct 1988
- 16Free Flight13 Nov 1988
- 17Chaos20 Nov 1988
- 18The Art of Deception27 Nov 1988
Season 1989
- 1Moving Pictures9 Jul 1989
- 2The Bicycle23 Jul 1989
- 3Earth Calling Basingstoke30 Jul 1989
- 4New York! New York!6 Aug 1989
- 5Fatal Attraction13 Aug 1989
- 6The Defender20 Aug 1989
- 7Little by Little27 Aug 1989
- 8Woomera3 Sep 1989
- 9Not in the Stars17 Sep 1989
- 10Race for the Top24 Sep 1989
- 11Walk on Wheels1 Oct 1989
- 12Invasion of the Body Scanners8 Oct 1989
- 13Wheels of War15 Oct 1989
- 14Three Score Years and Then?22 Oct 1989
- 15Robotopia29 Oct 1989
- 16Fly-by-Wire5 Nov 1989
- 17Deadly Force12 Nov 1989
- 18Faster Than a Speeding Bullet19 Nov 1989
Season 1990
- 1The Nuts and Bolts of Ben Bowlby5 Aug 1990
- 2The Greenhouse Conspiracy12 Aug 1990
- 3Selling the Secret19 Aug 1990
- 4Blue Skies2 Sep 1990
- 5Spitfire9 Sep 1990
- 6Trouble on the Line23 Sep 1990
- 7Fly-by-Wire: Technology on Trial30 Sep 1990
- 8The Light Stuff7 Oct 1990
- 9Junk Mail14 Oct 1990
- 10The Mind Benders21 Oct 1990
- 11The Winning Streak28 Oct 1990
- 12A Brush with the Greens4 Nov 1990
- 13Patently Obvious?11 Nov 1990
- 14Superpowers?18 Nov 1990
- 15Sex, Lies and Toupee Tape25 Nov 1990
- 16The Gold Brush - Paint's Green Revolution2 Dec 1990
- 17Towards a Cure for Cancer9 Dec 1990
- 18School's Out16 Dec 1990
- 19Going Downhill Fast23 Dec 1990
Season 1991
- 1After Desert Storm11 Aug 1991
- 2The Healing Mind18 Aug 1991
- 3Spacesuit25 Aug 1991
- 4The Falls1 Sep 1991
- 5Re-Inventing Japan8 Sep 1991
- 6The Professor's New Clothes22 Sep 1991
- 7The Gambler's Guide to Winning29 Sep 1991
- 8The Lean Burn Machine13 Oct 1991
- 9The Elements20 Oct 1991
- 10The Strange Case of Crop Circles27 Oct 1991
- 11Human Waste3 Nov 1991
- 12Dead Men Talk10 Nov 1991
- 13Teaching Computers to Think17 Nov 1991
- 14The Dyslexic Engineer24 Nov 1991
- 15A Setting for St Paul's1 Dec 1991
- 16The Business of Bottled Water8 Dec 1991
- 17Rheumatoid Arthritis15 Dec 1991
- 18Unravelling the Universe22 Dec 1991
Season 1992
- 1The Triumph of the Embryo9 Aug 1992
- 2The Siege of Barcelona16 Aug 1992
- 3Eurofighter6 Sep 1992
- 4Theme Park Heaven13 Sep 1992
- 5The Bermuda Triangle20 Sep 1992
- 6How They Built the Channel Tunnel27 Sep 1992
- 7Homes on Wheels4 Oct 1992
- 8Born That Way?11 Oct 1992
- 9Antichaos18 Oct 1992
- 10The Strange Case of Crop Circles (2)25 Oct 1992
- 11Zen on Wheels1 Nov 1992
- 12Rebuilding Berlin8 Nov 1992
- 1321st Century Jet15 Nov 1992
- 14The Puzzle of HIV22 Nov 1992
- 15The Alpha Link29 Nov 1992
- 16Toying with the Future6 Dec 1992
- 17E.T., Please Phone Earth20 Dec 1992
Season 1993
- 1Bridging the Future15 Aug 1993
- 2The Emperor's New Mind22 Aug 1993
- 3Fatal Protein5 Sep 1993
- 4Your Flight in Their Hands12 Sep 1993
- 5Fear of Falling19 Sep 1993
- 6Family Fortunes3 Oct 1993
- 7In the Path of a Killer Volcano10 Oct 1993
- 8Fly Navy17 Oct 1993
- 9Out of the Past24 Oct 1993
- 10Memories Are Made of This31 Oct 1993
- 11Life and Art7 Nov 1993
- 12Building for Earthquakes21 Nov 1993
- 13Space Shuttle Discovery28 Nov 1993
- 14Video Games5 Dec 1993
- 15The End of a Dynasty12 Dec 1993
Season 1994
- 1For Whom the Road Tolls Automatic Autostrada28 Aug 1994
- 2Walking on Water4 Sep 1994
- 3The Cyborg Cometh11 Sep 1994
- 4Coral Grief18 Sep 1994
- 5Cleared for Take-Off25 Sep 1994
- 6The Mystery of Anastasia5 Oct 1994
- 7The Rubber Universe9 Oct 1994
- 8Hypnosis - The Big Sleep16 Oct 1994
- 9The Private Lives of Dolphins30 Oct 1994
- 10Rave New World6 Nov 1994
- 11Brave New Babies20 Nov 1994
- 12Dismantling the Bomb27 Nov 1994
- 13Electric Skies4 Dec 1994
- 14Cyberville11 Dec 1994
- 15Incredible Evidence28 Dec 1994
Season 1995
- 1Beyond Love9 Jan 1995
- 2Cybersecrecy3 Sep 1995
- 3Guru Busters10 Sep 1995
- 4Jaws in the Med17 Sep 1995
- 5Under Fire24 Sep 1995
- 6State of Weightlessness1 Oct 1995
- 7High Anxiety15 Oct 1995
- 8DNA in the Dock22 Oct 1995
- 9Kaboom!5 Nov 1995
- 10Avalanche12 Nov 1995
- 11God Only Knows19 Nov 1995
- 12Gloria's Toxic Death26 Nov 1995
- 13On Jupiter3 Dec 1995
- 14Designing Dream Machines10 Dec 1995
- 15It Runs on Water17 Dec 1995
Season 1996
- 1The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies8 Sep 1996
- 2The Great Leveller15 Sep 1996
- 3Non-Lethal Weapon22 Sep 1996
- 4Last Neandertal?29 Sep 1996
- 5Staying Alive6 Oct 1996
- 6Killer Bees13 Oct 1996
- 7Double Identity27 Oct 1996
- 8Identified Flying Objects3 Nov 1996
- 9What's in a Number?10 Nov 1996
- 10The Men with Nine Lives24 Nov 1996
- 11Day Return to Space1 Dec 1996
- 12Superhighway Robbery8 Dec 1996
- 13Dr. Satan's Robot15 Dec 1996
Season 1997
- 1Secrets of the Psychics24 Aug 1997
- 2Black Holes8 Sep 1997
- 3A Very British Bomb15 Sep 1997
- 4Fighting the G-force22 Sep 1997
- 5The Iceberg Cometh29 Sep 1997
- 6Coma13 Oct 1997
- 7Sun Storm27 Oct 1997
- 8Natural Born Genius?3 Nov 1997
- 9Losing It10 Nov 1997
- 10The Day the Earth Was Hit17 Nov 1997
- 11When Pigs Ruled the World24 Nov 1997
- 12Mind-Readers1 Dec 1997
- 13The Conspiracy of Science15 Dec 1997
- 14Moscow, We Have a Problem22 Dec 1997
Season 1998
- 1The King of Chaos1 Jan 1998
- 2Russian Roulette14 Jul 1998
- 3The Bodyhunters21 Jul 1998
- 4The Miracle Police28 Jul 1998
- 5Dawn of the Death Ray4 Aug 1998
- 6Thin Air11 Aug 1998
- 7The Ten Plagues of Egypt18 Aug 1998
- 8Resurrecting the Mammoth1 Sep 1998
- 9The Big G8 Jul 1998
- 10The Secret Life of the Dog15 Sep 1998
- 11Killer Earth22 Sep 1998
- 12Ekranoplan - The Caspian Sea Monster29 Sep 1998
- 13Homicide in Kennewick6 Oct 1998
Season 1999
- 1Living Dangerously12 Apr 1999
- 2Riddle of the Leaning Tower19 Apr 1999
- 3Sweden, Sex and the Disappearing Doctors26 Apr 1999
- 4A Sense of Disaster10 May 1999
- 5Deadly Code17 May 1999
- 6Storm in a D Cup24 May 1999
- 7Curse of the Phantom Limbs7 Jun 1999
- 8Frozen Hearts6 Sep 1999
- 9Space - The Final Junkyard13 Sep 1999
- 10Do Parents Matter?20 Sep 1999
- 11Near Miss27 Sep 1999
- 12Curing the Incurable4 Oct 1999
Season 2000
- 1The Secret Life of the Crash Test Dummy13 Mar 2000
- 2The Rise and Fall of GM20 Mar 2000
- 3Simply Complex27 Mar 2000
- 4Meningitis - Search for a Cure3 Apr 2000
- 5The Box10 Apr 2000
- 6Full Throttle9 Oct 2000
- 7Lethal Seas16 Oct 2000
- 8Einstein's Biggest Blunder23 Oct 2000
- 9The Science of Stress30 Oct 2000
- 10Science of Crime Part 1: Psychopath7 Dec 2000
- 11Science of Crime Part 2: Criminal Evidence14 Dec 2000
- 12Science of Crime Part 3: Cybercops21 Dec 2000
Season 2001
- 1The Engines That Came in from the Cold4 Mar 2001
- 2The Day the Oceans Boiled17 Jun 2001
- 3The Fish That Time Forgot24 Jun 2001
- 4Hunt for the Death Star7 Jan 2001
- 5The Secret Life of the Mouse8 Jul 2001
- 6Saving the Leaning Tower15 Jul 2001
- 7Battle of the Robots: The Hunt for AI13 Oct 2001