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Ended · 1986–2001

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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Season 1 · 0 episodes
    Season 1986 · 16 episodes
    1. S1986 E01 · Turbo - Once Round the Block
    2. S1986 E02 · Turbo - Qualifying Boost
    3. S1986 E03 · Prisoner of Conciousness
    4. S1986 E04 · A Short History of the Future the City
    5. S1986 E05 · A Short History of the Future Spaceship
    6. S1986 E06 · The Tin Snail
    7. S1986 E07 · Deep Trouble
    8. S1986 E08 · What They Don't Tell You When They Sell You a Computer
    9. S1986 E09 · Precisely in Profit
    10. S1986 E10 · Now Eat This
    11. S1986 E11 · Growing Up with Rockets
    12. S1986 E12 · Shock Trauma
    13. S1986 E13 · Drink Drive and Murder
    14. S1986 E14 · The New Magicians
    15. S1986 E15 · Pioneers of the Future
    16. S1986 E16 · Skyscraper
    Season 1987 · 18 episodes
    1. S1987 E01 · Freud Under Analysis
    2. S1987 E02 · Mission to Mars
    3. S1987 E03 · Playing with Fire
    4. S1987 E04 · Weather Forecast
    5. S1987 E05 · Turbo - Made to Measure
    6. S1987 E06 · Twang, Bang, Kerang!
    7. S1987 E07 · What Goes Up...
    8. S1987 E08 · Hole in the Sky
    9. S1987 E09 · You Want Bells on It?
    10. S1987 E10 · Dirty Money
    11. S1987 E11 · Malltime
    12. S1987 E12 · Anything You Can Do...
    13. S1987 E13 · Command and Control
    14. S1987 E14 · Letters from an Indian Clerk
    15. S1987 E15 · Earthquake Country
    16. S1987 E16 · Nature's Technology
    17. S1987 E17 · Britain Can Make It?
    18. S1987 E18 · At the Edge
    Season 1988 · 18 episodes
    1. S1988 E01 · Running to Time
    2. S1988 E02 · Playing with Fire (Revised)
    3. S1988 E03 · The Air Fix
    4. S1988 E04 · Nic's Boat
    5. S1988 E05 · The Living Dead
    6. S1988 E06 · Zen and the Art of TV Manufacture
    7. S1988 E07 · How Good is Soviet Science?
    8. S1988 E08 · Toys for the Boys
    9. S1988 E09 · Cold Spring, Morning Sun
    10. S1988 E10 · Taking the Tunnel
    11. S1988 E11 · Road Test
    12. S1988 E12 · Look, No Hands!
    13. S1988 E13 · Spytech
    14. S1988 E14 · Bamboo
    15. S1988 E15 · Heavy Metal
    16. S1988 E16 · Free Flight
    17. S1988 E17 · Chaos
    18. S1988 E18 · The Art of Deception
    Season 1989 · 18 episodes
    1. S1989 E01 · Moving Pictures
    2. S1989 E02 · The Bicycle
    3. S1989 E03 · Earth Calling Basingstoke
    4. S1989 E04 · New York! New York!
    5. S1989 E05 · Fatal Attraction
    6. S1989 E06 · The Defender
    7. S1989 E07 · Little by Little
    8. S1989 E08 · Woomera
    9. S1989 E09 · Not in the Stars
    10. S1989 E10 · Race for the Top
    11. S1989 E11 · Walk on Wheels
    12. S1989 E12 · Invasion of the Body Scanners
    13. S1989 E13 · Wheels of War
    14. S1989 E14 · Three Score Years and Then?
    15. S1989 E15 · Robotopia
    16. S1989 E16 · Fly-by-Wire
    17. S1989 E17 · Deadly Force
    18. S1989 E18 · Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
    Season 1990 · 19 episodes
    1. S1990 E01 · The Nuts and Bolts of Ben Bowlby
    2. S1990 E02 · The Greenhouse Conspiracy
    3. S1990 E03 · Selling the Secret
    4. S1990 E04 · Blue Skies
    5. S1990 E05 · Spitfire
    6. S1990 E06 · Trouble on the Line
    7. S1990 E07 · Fly-by-Wire: Technology on Trial
    8. S1990 E08 · The Light Stuff
    9. S1990 E09 · Junk Mail
    10. S1990 E10 · The Mind Benders
    11. S1990 E11 · The Winning Streak
    12. S1990 E12 · A Brush with the Greens
    13. S1990 E13 · Patently Obvious?
    14. S1990 E14 · Superpowers?
    15. S1990 E15 · Sex, Lies and Toupee Tape
    16. S1990 E16 · The Gold Brush - Paint's Green Revolution
    17. S1990 E17 · Towards a Cure for Cancer
    18. S1990 E18 · School's Out
    19. S1990 E19 · Going Downhill Fast
    Season 1991 · 18 episodes
    1. S1991 E01 · After Desert Storm
    2. S1991 E02 · The Healing Mind
    3. S1991 E03 · Spacesuit
    4. S1991 E04 · The Falls
    5. S1991 E05 · Re-Inventing Japan
    6. S1991 E06 · The Professor's New Clothes
    7. S1991 E07 · The Gambler's Guide to Winning
    8. S1991 E08 · The Lean Burn Machine
    9. S1991 E09 · The Elements
    10. S1991 E10 · The Strange Case of Crop Circles
    11. S1991 E11 · Human Waste
    12. S1991 E12 · Dead Men Talk
    13. S1991 E13 · Teaching Computers to Think
    14. S1991 E14 · The Dyslexic Engineer
    15. S1991 E15 · A Setting for St Paul's
    16. S1991 E16 · The Business of Bottled Water
    17. S1991 E17 · Rheumatoid Arthritis
    18. S1991 E18 · Unravelling the Universe
    Season 1992 · 17 episodes
    1. S1992 E01 · The Triumph of the Embryo
    2. S1992 E02 · The Siege of Barcelona
    3. S1992 E03 · Eurofighter
    4. S1992 E04 · Theme Park Heaven
    5. S1992 E05 · The Bermuda Triangle
    6. S1992 E06 · How They Built the Channel Tunnel
    7. S1992 E07 · Homes on Wheels
    8. S1992 E08 · Born That Way?
    9. S1992 E09 · Antichaos
    10. S1992 E10 · The Strange Case of Crop Circles (2)
    11. S1992 E11 · Zen on Wheels
    12. S1992 E12 · Rebuilding Berlin
    13. S1992 E13 · 21st Century Jet
    14. S1992 E14 · The Puzzle of HIV
    15. S1992 E15 · The Alpha Link
    16. S1992 E16 · Toying with the Future
    17. S1992 E17 · E.T., Please Phone Earth
    Season 1993 · 15 episodes
    1. S1993 E01 · Bridging the Future
    2. S1993 E02 · The Emperor's New Mind
    3. S1993 E03 · Fatal Protein
    4. S1993 E04 · Your Flight in Their Hands
    5. S1993 E05 · Fear of Falling
    6. S1993 E06 · Family Fortunes
    7. S1993 E07 · In the Path of a Killer Volcano
    8. S1993 E08 · Fly Navy
    9. S1993 E09 · Out of the Past
    10. S1993 E10 · Memories Are Made of This
    11. S1993 E11 · Life and Art
    12. S1993 E12 · Building for Earthquakes
    13. S1993 E13 · Space Shuttle Discovery
    14. S1993 E14 · Video Games
    15. S1993 E15 · The End of a Dynasty
    Season 1994 · 15 episodes
    1. S1994 E01 · For Whom the Road Tolls Automatic Autostrada
    2. S1994 E02 · Walking on Water
    3. S1994 E03 · The Cyborg Cometh
    4. S1994 E04 · Coral Grief
    5. S1994 E05 · Cleared for Take-Off
    6. S1994 E06 · The Mystery of Anastasia
    7. S1994 E07 · The Rubber Universe
    8. S1994 E08 · Hypnosis - The Big Sleep
    9. S1994 E09 · The Private Lives of Dolphins
    10. S1994 E10 · Rave New World
    11. S1994 E11 · Brave New Babies
    12. S1994 E12 · Dismantling the Bomb
    13. S1994 E13 · Electric Skies
    14. S1994 E14 · Cyberville
    15. S1994 E15 · Incredible Evidence
    Season 1995 · 15 episodes
    1. S1995 E01 · Beyond Love
    2. S1995 E02 · Cybersecrecy
    3. S1995 E03 · Guru Busters
    4. S1995 E04 · Jaws in the Med
    5. S1995 E05 · Under Fire
    6. S1995 E06 · State of Weightlessness
    7. S1995 E07 · High Anxiety
    8. S1995 E08 · DNA in the Dock
    9. S1995 E09 · Kaboom!
    10. S1995 E10 · Avalanche
    11. S1995 E11 · God Only Knows
    12. S1995 E12 · Gloria's Toxic Death
    13. S1995 E13 · On Jupiter
    14. S1995 E14 · Designing Dream Machines
    15. S1995 E15 · It Runs on Water
    Season 1996 · 13 episodes
    1. S1996 E01 · The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
    2. S1996 E02 · The Great Leveller
    3. S1996 E03 · Non-Lethal Weapon
    4. S1996 E04 · Last Neandertal?
    5. S1996 E05 · Staying Alive
    6. S1996 E06 · Killer Bees
    7. S1996 E07 · Double Identity
    8. S1996 E08 · Identified Flying Objects
    9. S1996 E09 · What's in a Number?
    10. S1996 E10 · The Men with Nine Lives
    11. S1996 E11 · Day Return to Space
    12. S1996 E12 · Superhighway Robbery
    13. S1996 E13 · Dr. Satan's Robot
    Season 1997 · 14 episodes
    1. S1997 E01 · Secrets of the Psychics
    2. S1997 E02 · Black Holes
    3. S1997 E03 · A Very British Bomb
    4. S1997 E04 · Fighting the G-force
    5. S1997 E05 · The Iceberg Cometh
    6. S1997 E06 · Coma
    7. S1997 E07 · Sun Storm
    8. S1997 E08 · Natural Born Genius?
    9. S1997 E09 · Losing It
    10. S1997 E10 · The Day the Earth Was Hit
    11. S1997 E11 · When Pigs Ruled the World
    12. S1997 E12 · Mind-Readers
    13. S1997 E13 · The Conspiracy of Science
    14. S1997 E14 · Moscow, We Have a Problem
    Season 1998 · 13 episodes
    1. S1998 E01 · The King of Chaos
    2. S1998 E02 · Russian Roulette
    3. S1998 E03 · The Bodyhunters
    4. S1998 E04 · The Miracle Police
    5. S1998 E05 · Dawn of the Death Ray
    6. S1998 E06 · Thin Air
    7. S1998 E07 · The Ten Plagues of Egypt
    8. S1998 E08 · Resurrecting the Mammoth
    9. S1998 E09 · The Big G
    10. S1998 E10 · The Secret Life of the Dog
    11. S1998 E11 · Killer Earth
    12. S1998 E12 · Ekranoplan - The Caspian Sea Monster
    13. S1998 E13 · Homicide in Kennewick
    Season 1999 · 12 episodes
    1. S1999 E01 · Living Dangerously
    2. S1999 E02 · Riddle of the Leaning Tower
    3. S1999 E03 · Sweden, Sex and the Disappearing Doctors
    4. S1999 E04 · A Sense of Disaster
    5. S1999 E05 · Deadly Code
    6. S1999 E06 · Storm in a D Cup
    7. S1999 E07 · Curse of the Phantom Limbs
    8. S1999 E08 · Frozen Hearts
    9. S1999 E09 · Space - The Final Junkyard
    10. S1999 E10 · Do Parents Matter?
    11. S1999 E11 · Near Miss
    12. S1999 E12 · Curing the Incurable
    Season 2000 · 12 episodes
    1. S2000 E01 · The Secret Life of the Crash Test Dummy
    2. S2000 E02 · The Rise and Fall of GM
    3. S2000 E03 · Simply Complex
    4. S2000 E04 · Meningitis - Search for a Cure
    5. S2000 E05 · The Box
    6. S2000 E06 · Full Throttle
    7. S2000 E07 · Lethal Seas
    8. S2000 E08 · Einstein's Biggest Blunder
    9. S2000 E09 · The Science of Stress
    10. S2000 E10 · Science of Crime Part 1: Psychopath
    11. S2000 E11 · Science of Crime Part 2: Criminal Evidence
    12. S2000 E12 · Science of Crime Part 3: Cybercops
    Season 2001 · 7 episodes
    1. S2001 E01 · The Engines That Came in from the Cold
    2. S2001 E02 · The Day the Oceans Boiled
    3. S2001 E03 · The Fish That Time Forgot
    4. S2001 E04 · Hunt for the Death Star
    5. S2001 E05 · The Secret Life of the Mouse
    6. S2001 E06 · Saving the Leaning Tower
    7. S2001 E07 · Battle of the Robots: The Hunt for AI

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