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A list of Equinox episodes shows the full set of editions of the defunct (July 1986 - December 2006) Channel 4 science documentary series Equinox. Episodes 1986 31 July Turbo: Once Around the Block, about British motor racing; the Ferrari F1/86 and the Imola Circuit in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, and Tifosi spectators; the 1984 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch; the Motronic engine control units of Robert Bosch GmbH; Keith Duckworth, known for the Cosworth DFV, and Michael Kranefuss, head of Ford Motor Sport; Walter Hayes of Ford of Europe; Renault began turbocharged motor racing vehicles at the 1977 British Grand Prix on 16 July 1977, with the Renault RS01; Cosworth in Northampton; Beatrice Foods of the US, and Ford form an agreement in 1985, with Australian Alan Jones, with designer John Baldwin; the 1981 Italian Grand Prix and crash of John Watson; the assembled Cosworth GBA V6 engine is tested at Northampton. Produced by Patrick Uden, made by Uden Associates. Narrated by Martin Jarvis 7 August Turbo: Qualifying Boost, Paul Ray and electronic engineer Steve Taylor, who designed the engine management unit, at Cosworth; each year in Formula 1, the permitted fuel was reduced - for 1986, it was 195 litres; the EEC-IV electronic fuel injection system, an EPROM design; the Lola THL2 is tested at Boreham Circuit in Essex on 21 February 1986, with Patrick Tambay; Geoff Goddard, of Cosworth, who designed the overall engine; automotive engineer Neil Oatley; aerodynamicist Ross Brawn at Cranfield Institute of Technology; 4 March 1986 at Donington Park in Leicestershire; the Haas Lola team, and Cosworth development engineer Martin Walters; the Lotus 98T, of Team Lotus, with its Renault engine; the wastegate of a turbocharger compressor; the 1986 San Marino Grand Prix in northern Italy on 27 April 1986; the Chernobyl disaster had taken place the day before; Paul Ray notices that the exhaust has cracked near the turbocharger; Narrated by Martin Jarvis, produced by Patrick Uden, made by Uden Associates 14 August Prisoner of Consciousness, Sir Jonathan Miller looked at his research into human memory, and 48-year-old BBC musician Clive Wearing, who could not remember more than 10 seconds; Miller had made The Body in Question for the BBC in 1978, with much of the future Equinox team. Directed by John Dollar, produced by Patrick Uden, and made by Uden Associates 21 August A Short History of the Future: The City. Narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith, produced by Patrick Uden, directed by Sheila Hayman, made by Uden Associates 28 August A Short History of the Future: Spaceship, how space ships were viewed at cinema, and that the US space programme was largely started by Wernher von Braun, when making documentary programmes at Walt Disney; the American public needed to be convinced of the possibilities of space travel - as it would be publicly funded; Jesco Von Puttkamer of NASA; technology historical writer Frederick I. Ordway III; von Braun had first attempted a rocket launch in 1937, but it exploded; on 3 October 1942, his first successful rocket was the first man-made supersonic craft; there were 3,165 V-2 successful launches during the war; much 1950s popular space diagrams were drawn by Chesley Bonestell, which drew the attention of Walt Disney and producer Ward Kimball, who subsequently made the 1955 television episodes Man in Space and Man and the Moon, featuring Wernher von Braun, where von Braun demonstrated his XR-1 craft; health effects of space were demonstrated by former Luftwaffe fighter pilot and physicist Heinz Haber, later a well-known German television presenter; Star Trek: The Original Series was not popular when first shown, but was hugely popular after 1972 when it was repeated; consequently, the first space shuttle was named Enterprise, and when the shuttle was displayed in California on 17 September 1976, it was attended by the full cast of Star Trek, with the theme music also being played; Beverly Thurmond, NASA food scientist; Laura Louviere of NASA. Narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith, produced by Patrick Uden, directed by Sheila Hayman, made by Uden Associates 4 September The Tin Snail, about the Citroën 2CV; the 2CV was first introduced in October 1948; André Citroën saw himself as a French Henry Ford, and met American automotive industrialists in October 1931, including Henry Ford at the newly opened Ford Engineering Laboratory; the industrial historian Patrick Fridenson; Citroën lit up the Eiffel Tower in Citroën regalia, for publicity; but although André Citroën followed and admired Henry Ford, Citroën were innovative themselves, on 18 April 1934 the company launched the world's first mass-produced front-wheel drive car, the Citroën Traction Avant, when the company was narrowly avoiding bankruptcy; André Citroën died in 1935 and his company, being heavily in debt, was taken over by Édouard Michelin (brother of André Michelin); Fiat introduced its similar Fiat 500 in 1935, designed by Dante Giacosa; Ferdinand Porsche designed a new mass-produced car with rear air-cooled horizontally-opposed four-cylinder engine; France did not have such a car to Germany, so Citroën developed the Toute Petite Voiture (TPV), a proposal of Pierre Michelin - he brought in André Lefèbvre, who had designed the front-wheel-drive system of the Traction Avant and was a former aircraft engineer of Voisin, and led by Pierre-Jules Boulanger; Lefèbvre came from the aviation industry, and to save weight, made the car out of aluminium; the car had a torsion bar suspension, with eight torsion bars; Flaminio Bertoni, an Italian, was head of exterior design at Citroën, from 1932 to 1964; Carl Olsen, head of Citroën exterior design from 1982 to 1987; Alex Moulton, the Cambridge-educated mechanical engineer, who designed the suspension for the innovative Mini, in the late 1950s; Lucien Gerard, from Talbot, and Walter Becchia, who designed the two-cylinder water-cooled horizontally-opposed engine. Narrated by Peter Jones, produced by Patrick Uden, directed by Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones, made by Uden Associates 11 September Deep Trouble, about the North Sea oil industry; the beginning of 1986 saw peak production of North Sea oil; finding new oil reserves would be from deeper oil fields, that cost more money to extract; at the same time the oil price plummeted, with over 15,000 job losses in the British oil industry by the end of 1986; Vickers Ltd entered the oil exploration industry; submersible craft were helping exploration of oil, with remotely-operated craft becoming important. Narrated by Martin Jarvis, produced by Patrick Uden, directed by Paul Fabricius, made by Uden Associates 18 September What They Don't Tell You When They Sell You a Computer, about professionalism in the computer hardware industry; Eddy Shah from the Today newspaper, and their new unreliable computer system; Brian Wilson of First Computer believed that the computer hardware retailing industry were largely unprofessional u.... Discover the Alice Randall Carter Little Courtney Lit popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Alice Randall Carter Little Courtney Lit books.