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 4 · 6 episodes · 1983
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Episode 116 Nov 1983
Big Brother's Little Test
The ' polygraph' lie-detector has arrived in Britain. It measures tiny changes in your breathing, perspiration, and heartbeat, as they ask you questions. Someone's hurt - did you do it? Did you steal money from the till? Did you lie when a…
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Episode 223 Nov 1983
How to Be a Professional Mum and Dad
Both Tim and Jean Richardson - from East Grinstead - are ' professional parents', formally approved by the Better Baby Institute in Pennsylvania, USA. They have three children: Rufus, 5, has ' a rage to learn Beth, 3, ' would rather learn …
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Episode 330 Nov 1983
The Future Is Further Away Than You Think
In this programme, HEINZ WOLFF steps aboard a London bus and finds himself immediately transported to a bizarre and unfamiliar world. The past. The year 1948. As he wanders round that strange era of de-mob suits, Clement Attlee , Victor Si…
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Episode 47 Dec 1983
The People's Medicine
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Episode 514 Dec 1983
The Bat, the Blossom and the Biologist
The Bat, the Blossom and the Biologist with Donna Howell There is in Arizona a bat that flies thousands of miles each spring to feed on the flowers of a plant that blooms only once in 25 years-and then dies. Last summer Q.E.D. went to the …
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Episode 621 Dec 1983
Eyewitness Evidence... Fact or Fiction?
Would you make a good eye-witness? Here's your chance to find out with some experiments that could change your mind. The evidence shows we can recall events that never happened. And recognise people that we have never seen. So Q.E.D. asks …
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