Is Equinox coming back?
Equinox (1986–2001) on Channel 4
The answer: Concluded October 13, 2001.
16seasons
240episodes
About 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".
Equinox episode schedule
240 aired
Aired · 240
| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| October 13, 2001 | S2001·E7 | Battle of the Robots: The Hunt for AI |
| July 15, 2001 | S2001·E6 | Saving the Leaning Tower |
| July 8, 2001 | S2001·E5 | The Secret Life of the Mouse |
| June 24, 2001 | S2001·E3 | The Fish That Time Forgot |
| June 17, 2001 | S2001·E2 | The Day the Oceans Boiled |
| March 4, 2001 | S2001·E1 | The Engines That Came in from the Cold |
| January 7, 2001 | S2001·E4 | Hunt for the Death Star |
| December 21, 2000 | S2000·E12 | Science of Crime Part 3: Cybercops |
| December 14, 2000 | S2000·E11 | Science of Crime Part 2: Criminal Evidence |
| December 7, 2000 | S2000·E10 | Science of Crime Part 1: Psychopath |
| October 30, 2000 | S2000·E9 | The Science of Stress |
| October 23, 2000 | S2000·E8 | Einstein's Biggest Blunder |
| October 16, 2000 | S2000·E7 | Lethal Seas |
| October 9, 2000 | S2000·E6 | Full Throttle |
| April 10, 2000 | S2000·E5 | The Box |
| April 3, 2000 | S2000·E4 | Meningitis - Search for a Cure |
| March 27, 2000 | S2000·E3 | Simply Complex |
| March 20, 2000 | S2000·E2 | The Rise and Fall of GM |
| March 13, 2000 | S2000·E1 | The Secret Life of the Crash Test Dummy |
| October 4, 1999 | S1999·E12 | Curing the Incurable |
| September 27, 1999 | S1999·E11 | Near Miss |
| September 20, 1999 | S1999·E10 | Do Parents Matter? |
| September 13, 1999 | S1999·E9 | Space - The Final Junkyard |
| September 6, 1999 | S1999·E8 | Frozen Hearts |
| June 7, 1999 | S1999·E7 | Curse of the Phantom Limbs |
| May 24, 1999 | S1999·E6 | Storm in a D Cup |
| May 17, 1999 | S1999·E5 | Deadly Code |
| May 10, 1999 | S1999·E4 | A Sense of Disaster |
| April 26, 1999 | S1999·E3 | Sweden, Sex and the Disappearing Doctors |
| April 19, 1999 | S1999·E2 | Riddle of the Leaning Tower |
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| April 12, 1999 | S1999·E1 | Living Dangerously |
| October 6, 1998 | S1998·E13 | Homicide in Kennewick |
| September 29, 1998 | S1998·E12 | Ekranoplan - The Caspian Sea Monster |
| September 22, 1998 | S1998·E11 | Killer Earth |
| September 15, 1998 | S1998·E10 | The Secret Life of the Dog |
| September 1, 1998 | S1998·E8 | Resurrecting the Mammoth |
| August 18, 1998 | S1998·E7 | The Ten Plagues of Egypt |
| August 11, 1998 | S1998·E6 | Thin Air |
| August 4, 1998 | S1998·E5 | Dawn of the Death Ray |
| July 28, 1998 | S1998·E4 | The Miracle Police |
| July 21, 1998 | S1998·E3 | The Bodyhunters |
| July 14, 1998 | S1998·E2 | Russian Roulette |
| July 8, 1998 | S1998·E9 | The Big G |
| January 1, 1998 | S1998·E1 | The King of Chaos |
| December 22, 1997 | S1997·E14 | Moscow, We Have a Problem |
| December 15, 1997 | S1997·E13 | The Conspiracy of Science |
| December 1, 1997 | S1997·E12 | Mind-Readers |
| November 24, 1997 | S1997·E11 | When Pigs Ruled the World |
| November 17, 1997 | S1997·E10 | The Day the Earth Was Hit |
| November 10, 1997 | S1997·E9 | Losing It |
| November 3, 1997 | S1997·E8 | Natural Born Genius? |
| October 27, 1997 | S1997·E7 | Sun Storm |
| October 13, 1997 | S1997·E6 | Coma |
| September 29, 1997 | S1997·E5 | The Iceberg Cometh |
| September 22, 1997 | S1997·E4 | Fighting the G-force |
| September 15, 1997 | S1997·E3 | A Very British Bomb |
| September 8, 1997 | S1997·E2 | Black Holes |
| August 24, 1997 | S1997·E1 | Secrets of the Psychics |
| December 15, 1996 | S1996·E13 | Dr. Satan's Robot |
| December 8, 1996 | S1996·E12 | Superhighway Robbery |
| December 1, 1996 | S1996·E11 | Day Return to Space |
| November 24, 1996 | S1996·E10 | The Men with Nine Lives |
| November 10, 1996 | S1996·E9 | What's in a Number? |
| November 3, 1996 | S1996·E8 | Identified Flying Objects |
| October 27, 1996 | S1996·E7 | Double Identity |
| October 13, 1996 | S1996·E6 | Killer Bees |
| October 6, 1996 | S1996·E5 | Staying Alive |
| September 29, 1996 | S1996·E4 | Last Neandertal? |
| September 22, 1996 | S1996·E3 | Non-Lethal Weapon |
| September 15, 1996 | S1996·E2 | The Great Leveller |
| September 8, 1996 | S1996·E1 | The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies |
| December 17, 1995 | S1995·E15 | It Runs on Water |
| December 10, 1995 | S1995·E14 | Designing Dream Machines |
| December 3, 1995 | S1995·E13 | On Jupiter |
| November 26, 1995 | S1995·E12 | Gloria's Toxic Death |
| November 19, 1995 | S1995·E11 | God Only Knows |
| November 12, 1995 | S1995·E10 | Avalanche |
| November 5, 1995 | S1995·E9 | Kaboom! |
| October 22, 1995 | S1995·E8 | DNA in the Dock |
| October 15, 1995 | S1995·E7 | High Anxiety |
| October 1, 1995 | S1995·E6 | State of Weightlessness |
| September 24, 1995 | S1995·E5 | Under Fire |
| September 17, 1995 | S1995·E4 | Jaws in the Med |
| September 10, 1995 | S1995·E3 | Guru Busters |
| September 3, 1995 | S1995·E2 | Cybersecrecy |
| January 9, 1995 | S1995·E1 | Beyond Love |
| December 28, 1994 | S1994·E15 | Incredible Evidence |
| December 11, 1994 | S1994·E14 | Cyberville |
| December 4, 1994 | S1994·E13 | Electric Skies |
| November 27, 1994 | S1994·E12 | Dismantling the Bomb |
| November 20, 1994 | S1994·E11 | Brave New Babies |
| November 6, 1994 | S1994·E10 | Rave New World |
| October 30, 1994 | S1994·E9 | The Private Lives of Dolphins |
| October 16, 1994 | S1994·E8 | Hypnosis - The Big Sleep |
| October 9, 1994 | S1994·E7 | The Rubber Universe |
| October 5, 1994 | S1994·E6 | The Mystery of Anastasia |
| September 25, 1994 | S1994·E5 | Cleared for Take-Off |
| September 18, 1994 | S1994·E4 | Coral Grief |
| September 11, 1994 | S1994·E3 | The Cyborg Cometh |
| September 4, 1994 | S1994·E2 | Walking on Water |
| August 28, 1994 | S1994·E1 | For Whom the Road Tolls Automatic Autostrada |
| December 12, 1993 | S1993·E15 | The End of a Dynasty |
| December 5, 1993 | S1993·E14 | Video Games |
| November 28, 1993 | S1993·E13 | Space Shuttle Discovery |
| November 21, 1993 | S1993·E12 | Building for Earthquakes |
| November 7, 1993 | S1993·E11 | Life and Art |
| October 31, 1993 | S1993·E10 | Memories Are Made of This |
| October 24, 1993 | S1993·E9 | Out of the Past |
| October 17, 1993 | S1993·E8 | Fly Navy |
| October 10, 1993 | S1993·E7 | In the Path of a Killer Volcano |
| October 3, 1993 | S1993·E6 | Family Fortunes |
| September 19, 1993 | S1993·E5 | Fear of Falling |
| September 12, 1993 | S1993·E4 | Your Flight in Their Hands |
| September 5, 1993 | S1993·E3 | Fatal Protein |
| August 22, 1993 | S1993·E2 | The Emperor's New Mind |
| August 15, 1993 | S1993·E1 | Bridging the Future |
| December 20, 1992 | S1992·E17 | E.T., Please Phone Earth |
| December 6, 1992 | S1992·E16 | Toying with the Future |
| November 29, 1992 | S1992·E15 | The Alpha Link |
| November 22, 1992 | S1992·E14 | The Puzzle of HIV |
| November 15, 1992 | S1992·E13 | 21st Century Jet |
| November 8, 1992 | S1992·E12 | Rebuilding Berlin |
| November 1, 1992 | S1992·E11 | Zen on Wheels |
| October 25, 1992 | S1992·E10 | The Strange Case of Crop Circles (2) |
| October 18, 1992 | S1992·E9 | Antichaos |
| October 11, 1992 | S1992·E8 | Born That Way? |
| October 4, 1992 | S1992·E7 | Homes on Wheels |
| September 27, 1992 | S1992·E6 | How They Built the Channel Tunnel |
| September 20, 1992 | S1992·E5 | The Bermuda Triangle |
| September 13, 1992 | S1992·E4 | Theme Park Heaven |
| September 6, 1992 | S1992·E3 | Eurofighter |
| August 16, 1992 | S1992·E2 | The Siege of Barcelona |
| August 9, 1992 | S1992·E1 | The Triumph of the Embryo |
| December 22, 1991 | S1991·E18 | Unravelling the Universe |
| December 15, 1991 | S1991·E17 | Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| December 8, 1991 | S1991·E16 | The Business of Bottled Water |
| December 1, 1991 | S1991·E15 | A Setting for St Paul's |
| November 24, 1991 | S1991·E14 | The Dyslexic Engineer |
| November 17, 1991 | S1991·E13 | Teaching Computers to Think |
| November 10, 1991 | S1991·E12 | Dead Men Talk |
| November 3, 1991 | S1991·E11 | Human Waste |
| October 27, 1991 | S1991·E10 | The Strange Case of Crop Circles |
| October 20, 1991 | S1991·E9 | The Elements |
| October 13, 1991 | S1991·E8 | The Lean Burn Machine |
| September 29, 1991 | S1991·E7 | The Gambler's Guide to Winning |
| September 22, 1991 | S1991·E6 | The Professor's New Clothes |
| September 8, 1991 | S1991·E5 | Re-Inventing Japan |
| September 1, 1991 | S1991·E4 | The Falls |
| August 25, 1991 | S1991·E3 | Spacesuit |
| August 18, 1991 | S1991·E2 | The Healing Mind |
| August 11, 1991 | S1991·E1 | After Desert Storm |
| December 23, 1990 | S1990·E19 | Going Downhill Fast |
| December 16, 1990 | S1990·E18 | School's Out |
| December 9, 1990 | S1990·E17 | Towards a Cure for Cancer |
| December 2, 1990 | S1990·E16 | The Gold Brush - Paint's Green Revolution |
| November 25, 1990 | S1990·E15 | Sex, Lies and Toupee Tape |
| November 18, 1990 | S1990·E14 | Superpowers? |
| November 11, 1990 | S1990·E13 | Patently Obvious? |
| November 4, 1990 | S1990·E12 | A Brush with the Greens |
| October 28, 1990 | S1990·E11 | The Winning Streak |
| October 21, 1990 | S1990·E10 | The Mind Benders |
| October 14, 1990 | S1990·E9 | Junk Mail |
| October 7, 1990 | S1990·E8 | The Light Stuff |
| September 30, 1990 | S1990·E7 | Fly-by-Wire: Technology on Trial |
| September 23, 1990 | S1990·E6 | Trouble on the Line |
| September 9, 1990 | S1990·E5 | Spitfire |
| September 2, 1990 | S1990·E4 | Blue Skies |
| August 19, 1990 | S1990·E3 | Selling the Secret |
| August 12, 1990 | S1990·E2 | The Greenhouse Conspiracy |
| August 5, 1990 | S1990·E1 | The Nuts and Bolts of Ben Bowlby |
| November 19, 1989 | S1989·E18 | Faster Than a Speeding Bullet |
| November 12, 1989 | S1989·E17 | Deadly Force |
| November 5, 1989 | S1989·E16 | Fly-by-Wire |
| October 29, 1989 | S1989·E15 | Robotopia |
| October 22, 1989 | S1989·E14 | Three Score Years and Then? |
| October 15, 1989 | S1989·E13 | Wheels of War |
| October 8, 1989 | S1989·E12 | Invasion of the Body Scanners |
| October 1, 1989 | S1989·E11 | Walk on Wheels |
| September 24, 1989 | S1989·E10 | Race for the Top |
| September 17, 1989 | S1989·E9 | Not in the Stars |
| September 3, 1989 | S1989·E8 | Woomera |
| August 27, 1989 | S1989·E7 | Little by Little |
| August 20, 1989 | S1989·E6 | The Defender |
| August 13, 1989 | S1989·E5 | Fatal Attraction |
| August 6, 1989 | S1989·E4 | New York! New York! |
| July 30, 1989 | S1989·E3 | Earth Calling Basingstoke |
| July 23, 1989 | S1989·E2 | The Bicycle |
| July 9, 1989 | S1989·E1 | Moving Pictures |
| November 27, 1988 | S1988·E18 | The Art of Deception |
| November 20, 1988 | S1988·E17 | Chaos |
| November 13, 1988 | S1988·E16 | Free Flight |
| October 30, 1988 | S1988·E15 | Heavy Metal |
| October 23, 1988 | S1988·E14 | Bamboo |
| October 16, 1988 | S1988·E13 | Spytech |
| October 9, 1988 | S1988·E12 | Look, No Hands! |
| September 25, 1988 | S1988·E11 | Road Test |
| September 18, 1988 | S1988·E10 | Taking the Tunnel |
| August 28, 1988 | S1988·E9 | Cold Spring, Morning Sun |
| August 21, 1988 | S1988·E8 | Toys for the Boys |
| August 14, 1988 | S1988·E7 | How Good is Soviet Science? |
| August 7, 1988 | S1988·E6 | Zen and the Art of TV Manufacture |
| July 31, 1988 | S1988·E5 | The Living Dead |
| July 24, 1988 | S1988·E4 | Nic's Boat |
| July 17, 1988 | S1988·E3 | The Air Fix |
| February 12, 1988 | S1988·E2 | Playing with Fire (Revised) |
| February 11, 1988 | S1988·E1 | Running to Time |
| November 26, 1987 | S1987·E18 | At the Edge |
| November 19, 1987 | S1987·E17 | Britain Can Make It? |
| November 12, 1987 | S1987·E16 | Nature's Technology |
| November 5, 1987 | S1987·E15 | Earthquake Country |
| October 29, 1987 | S1987·E14 | Letters from an Indian Clerk |
| October 22, 1987 | S1987·E13 | Command and Control |
| October 8, 1987 | S1987·E12 | Anything You Can Do... |
| October 1, 1987 | S1987·E11 | Malltime |
| September 24, 1987 | S1987·E10 | Dirty Money |
| September 10, 1987 | S1987·E9 | You Want Bells on It? |
| September 3, 1987 | S1987·E8 | Hole in the Sky |
| August 27, 1987 | S1987·E7 | What Goes Up... |
| August 20, 1987 | S1987·E6 | Twang, Bang, Kerang! |
| August 13, 1987 | S1987·E5 | Turbo - Made to Measure |
| August 6, 1987 | S1987·E4 | Weather Forecast |
| July 30, 1987 | S1987·E3 | Playing with Fire |
| July 23, 1987 | S1987·E2 | Mission to Mars |
| February 17, 1987 | S1987·E1 | Freud Under Analysis |
| November 13, 1986 | S1986·E16 | Skyscraper |
| November 6, 1986 | S1986·E15 | Pioneers of the Future |
| October 30, 1986 | S1986·E14 | The New Magicians |
| October 23, 1986 | S1986·E13 | Drink Drive and Murder |
| October 16, 1986 | S1986·E12 | Shock Trauma |
| October 9, 1986 | S1986·E11 | Growing Up with Rockets |
…and 10 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.