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Q.E.D

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6 Apr 1982First aired
20Seasons

The series

Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum, Latin for "that which was to be demonstrated") was the name of a series of BBC popular science documentary films which aired in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1999. Running in a half-hour peak-time slot on the BBC's primary mass-audience channel BBC1, the series had a more populist and general interest agenda than the long-running Horizon series which aired on the more specialist channel BBC2. Horizon could often be difficult for a scientific novice, requiring a modicum of background knowledge beyond the reaches of many viewers, so Q.E.D. was a more approachable way of introducing scientific stories.

Episodes

Season 20 · 13 episodes · 1998

  1. Episode 119 Jul 1998

    Breathless

    This week an investigation into a controversial new drug-free treatment for asthma. The Russian professor who devised the theory, called Buteyko, claims many asthma symptoms are caused by hyperventilation, and therapists usingthe method en…

  2. Episode 229 Jul 1998

    Prisoners of the Forgotten Plague

    The first of five new documentaries looks at a mysterious disease, known as sleepy sickness, which left thousands of people motionless and speechless in the 1920s. Now "virus hunter" Professor John Oxford fears there could be another outbr…

  3. Episode 35 Aug 1998

    Deadly Secrets

    Every year at least 20 women in Britain kill their babies on the day they give birth. The actual figure may be higher because many of these women manage to hide their pregnancies from everyone around them. Here, two women describe what led…

  4. Episode 412 Aug 1998

    The Quest for the Quagga

    This week's film reports on how scientists in South Africa are trying to resurrect an animal extinct for more than a century-the half-horse, half-zebra quagga - in a project that inspired the film Jurassic Park.

  5. Episode 526 Aug 1998

    Spontaneous Human Combustion

    The last programme in the current series investigates a number of extraordinary cases of people bursting into flames. Scientists and fire experts try to explain the phenomenon, and there's an experiment aimed at showing how it could happen.

  6. Episode 627 Sep 1998

    Hope for Helen

  7. Episode 76 Oct 1998

    Bubble Babies

    The science series returns with the first of five new documentaries. This programme tells the stories of children with severe combined immuno-deficiency, or SCID, a genetic disease that prevents babies from fighting infections. Two years a…

  8. Episode 812 Oct 1998

    Betsy and the Bongo

  9. Episode 910 Nov 1998

    Call of the Deep

    Free diving is a form of competitive swimming that involves staying deep underwater for long periods onjust one breath. Although free divers train themselves to overridethe desire to surface, it is possible that their stamina may be due to…

  10. Episode 1018 Nov 1998

    Secrets of the Cloud People

    The discovery in the Amazon jungle of a cliff tomb containing 200 mummies has given new credence to legends about a lost civilisation -the Cloud People. The tomb is nearto an ancient jungle city, found and filmed by explorer Gene Savoy, wh…

  11. Episode 111 Dec 1998

    The Bionic Woman

    Eight years ago Julie Hill was paralysed from the waist down in a car crash, but subsequently she was chosen to be the first patient in the world to receive electronic implants that might help herto walk again. Like a character from a scie…

  12. Episode 129 Dec 1998

    Joella's Journey

  13. Episode 1312 Apr 1999

    Saving Trudy

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