Episode guide
Horizon: 2001
11 episodes · premiered Jan 25, 2001
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- Episode 1: The Mystery of the Miami Circle Jan 25, 2001 · 1h Builders in Miami, Florida unearth a ring of holes. The State then pays $27million to preserve either a Native American village or remnants of a 1950s sewerage system.
- Episode 2: The Missing Link Feb 1, 2001 · 1h A trail from Greenland to Britain via Latvia offers new evidence into how evolution could have seen aquatic life form legs and walk.
- Episode 3: Killer Algae Feb 8, 2001 · 1h A tropical seaweed that escaped from an aquarium is endangering sea life in the Mediterranean and has gone on to infect the California coast.
- Episode 4: Ecstasy and Agony Feb 15, 2001 · 1h Tim Lawrence was an all-action stuntman until hit by Parkinson's Disease. Horizon follows his hopes of a more normal lifestyle using Ecstasy - a class A illegal drug.
- Episode 5: Snowball Earth Feb 22, 2001 · 1h The controversial theory that for millions of years the Earth was plunged into catastrophe - entirely smothered in ice up to one kilometre thick.
- Episode 6: Taming the Problem Child Mar 6, 2001 · 1h Two disruptive children are followed through a controversial treatment regime.
- Episode 7: The Mystery of the Persian Mummy Sep 20, 2001 · 1h In November 2000, the international press reported an amazing find: a mummy, which was claimed to be that of an ancient Persian princess, over 2,600 years old. She was encased in a carved…
- Episode 8: The Ape that Took Over the World Oct 4, 2001 · 1h In 2001, scientists announced an amazing discovery: the oldest skull of a human ancestor ever found. The 3 million year old fossil was remarkably complete, and unlike any previous fossil…
- Episode 9: Life Blood Oct 11, 2001 · 1h Matthew Farrow was born with a rare and fatal blood disease, Fanconi's anaemia. His family and doctors thought he was going to die. Instead, aged just five, he became the first person in…
- Episode 10: The Death Star Oct 18, 2001 · 1h Out in deepest space lurks a force of almost unimaginable power. Explosions of extraordinary violence, are blasting through the Universe every day. If one ever struck our Solar System it…
- Episode 11: Cloning the First Human Oct 25, 2001 · 1h Doctors Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori claim they are ready to embark on the greatest human experiment of our age. They say they will attempt to clone a human being before the year…