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.
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The proof of the pudding
Spy in the sky
Beyond the six second mile
Music, music, music
Riding on air
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The underground test
Before the massacre
The invisible world
Shroud of jesus: fact or fake?
The riddle of sleep
Why things go wrong
The horse that doped itself
Big day at black rock
Old wives' tales
Bend! bend! bend!
Acts of god
The long night of the lion
Bugging in six easy lessons
Simon's war
Faster than the sun
Big brother's little test
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The people's medicine
The bat, the blossom and the biologist
Eyewitness evidence... fact or fiction?
Testing, testing
Handful of light
In at the deep end
The quest for mastermind's brain
The war of words down under
Ray of hope
A walk on the wild side
Pozzuoli: death of a city
The science of sexual attraction
The magic picture show
The 300 million years war
The long watch: fifty years of radar
A race against time
The body in the bog
Riddles of ball and cue
Operation otter
Another little drink won't do us any harm
Stammering cured: andrew r. bell
Gina: the last campbell
Robots: taking the biscuit?
Simon's peace
Round britain whizz
Sight for sara
Robots: taking the biscuit
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New lives for old
The man who walks on fire
The eleven-minute mile
The meaning of dreams
A wolf in dog's clothing
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The body out of the bog: second report
The invisible killer
Claws: a new kind of dinosaur
The foolish wise ones
Before your time
A fall from grace
Your biological guide to aids
The world's longest flight
The world's longest drop
The struggles of the swan
Murder on the bluebell line
Breaking the pain barrier
Alpha: how to succeed without really trying
Eating earth
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Four go off to space camp
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Whirlpools in the air
The snooker machine
Putting you in the picture
With a goal in mind
Breaking the silence
It's not easy being a dolphin
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The man who believes in body transplants
Racing with the sun
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John's not mad
The riddle of the turin shroud
The morgan treatment
Simon's triumph
The write stuff
Keyhole surgery
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The steroid myth
Sweet f.a.
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A rainforest remedy
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Welcome to fat camp
Once upon a time
The love laboratory
The long underarm of the law
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Love child
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Murphy's law
Panic attack
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On his own two feet
Granny's greatest thrill
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The battle of the bottle snatchers
When to change faces
Gripping stuff
Supertots
When it happens to you
Miracle man
Little monsters
Simon's return
Propping up pisa
Night terrors
The bike
Misha
Dark side of the sun
Walking back to happiness
Knights of the shining piddock
Tokyo earthquake
Art and chips
A chinese cure for eczema?
The family game
Gallop to freedom
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Trauma
Craig's boot
Fishman of saughton jail
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Plastic fantastic
Casualities of the wild
Curse of the killer bug
A song for annie
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Live luggage
Food fights
The maggot mogul
Cot death
Sex acts
Sleeping it off
Pigeon pie
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Talking to horses
Clockwork radio
A hole in fred's head
The fall and rise of sergeant 'reggie' perrin
Brave heart
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The outcasts
Baby in a frame
Sunshine and scattered showers
The secret life of seahorses
How to be happy
Return of the bloodsuckers
Life on ice
Pride and prejudice
Clockwork radio update
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Cause of death
Monty roberts: a real horse whisperer
Nerve transplant
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Breathless
Prisoners of the forgotten plague
Deadly secrets
The quest for the quagga
Spontaneous human combustion
Hope for helen
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Betsy and the bongo
Call of the deep
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The bionic woman
Joella's journey
Saving trudy
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