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Season 2

35 Episodes

1963

E01

The Guns

9/11/1963

E02

Lord Denning

9/16/1963

E03

Dick Gregory

9/29/1963

E04

M.R.A

9/30/1963

E05

Oxfam

10/10/1963

E06

Blackpool Conference

10/14/1963

E07

Living in the Slums

10/22/1963

A look at conditions in Stepney, London.

E08

Repairs

10/29/1963

E09

Power

11/5/1963

E10

The Prime Minister - Sir Alec Douglas Home

11/12/1963

E11

The Shadows

11/19/1963

E12

Increasing Traffic

11/26/1963

E13

The British Way of Death

12/3/1963

E14

Dallas

12/3/1963

A visit to the city of Dallas in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, focusing on the varying reactions and conditions of the people there.

E15

President Lyndon Johnson

12/10/1963

E16

The Cost of Dying

12/17/1963

Investigates that behind the solemn facade, a funeral service can be an opportunity to take advantage of the situation for monetary gain.

E17

Cooke on America

12/31/1963

E18

Truth About Spain

1/7/1964

An observation of Spanish Life under Franco.

E19

Alistair Cooke Reports

1/21/1964

E20

Lakonia - The Facts

1/14/1964

E21

The Thin Red Line

1/21/1964

A profile of British Soldiers at various world trouble spots.

E22

Smuggling

2/4/1964

E23

The Power of the Nanny

2/11/1964

E24

Cyprus

2/18/1964

The war in Cyprus between the Turkish and Greek Cypriots.

E25

Concorde

2/25/1964

Profile of the world's first supersonic airliner.

E26

The Great Train Robbery

3/26/1964

Reconstruction of the recent night mail train robbery

E27

The Williams Family

3/28/1964

Plight of a South African family refused entry into Britain.

E29

Radio Pirates

5/12/1964

Unique access to the new form of radio which is competing on a not strictly legal level with the BBC - the pirate stations. Those on the outside both for and against also have their say.

E30

How to Make a Million in One Minute Flat

5/19/1964

A profile of the town of Timmins in Canada which became a boom town overnight over the recent discovery of large amounts of Copper.

E31

The Face on the Cover

5/26/1964

E32

Lord Beaverbrook

6/9/1964

E33

Typhoid in Aberdeen

6/16/1964

A typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen is traced to a rogue batch of Argentinian corned beef.

E34

Goldwater for President? or How to Win Friends and Influence People

6/30/1964

A look at Barry Goldwater's run for President.

E35

John Bloom

7/21/1964

The rise and fall of washing machine magnate John Bloom and his Roll's Razor Company.

E36

U.S. in U.K.

7/28/1964

Season 3

27 Episodes

1964

E01

The Story of the Sun

9/15/1964

The launch of The Sun newspaper.

E02

The Flip Side

9/22/1964

Various recording agents speak out on the pop music business, and whether the UK singles chart is a fair representation of vinyl sales.

E03

U.S. Elections

9/29/1964

E04

Canada

10/6/1964

French-Canadian unrest at the Queen's visit.

E05

Eyes

10/20/1964

Investigation on how a bacterial infection got into a Birmingham Eye Hospital and caused several cases of blindness.

E06

How to Loose at the Olympics After Really Trying

10/27/1964

An investigation into the poor training facilities available to Olympic contenders.

E07

Vietnam

11/3/1964

E08

Air Safety

11/10/1964

E09

Smethwick and Racial Tension

11/17/1964

E10

State of the Unions: Unions and the Motor Car

12/1/1964

A comparison of the industrial relations in the car making industries of the UK & the US.

E11

Sunday Laws

12/8/1964

An investigation into Britain's age old Sunday trading laws and their effect on shops and similar businesses.

E12

Labour Party Conference 1964

12/15/1964

E13

Ballroom Dancing

12/22/1964

E14

Highlights of 1964

12/29/1964

E15

The English Disease

2/9/1965

Investigates if there is a link between bronchitis and road pollution.

E17

Malcolm X

2/23/1965

Various black Americans give their views on Malcolm X, and an actor recreates some of his speeches.

E18

The Night Drivers

3/2/1965

Investigates the transport and haulage industry and the dark practices that can leave drivers tired, open to hijack and dangerous vehicles on our roads.

E21

The BBC

3/20/1965

E24

The Middle East

4/20/1965

Observations of the tensions growing between Arab and Israeli.

E25

Seventy Up

4/27/1965

Companion piece to Seven Up! (1964), this time featuring the elderly looking back rather than the young looking forward. The average age of these women and men is 79.

E26

Water

6/1/1965

A look at the water crisis and how the drought will affect the summer.

E30

The Other World

6/29/1965

E31

Dukes

7/6/1965

E32

The £.S.D. of MPH

7/13/1965

E33

Jerry Builders

7/20/1965

E34

The Tory Leadership

7/22/1965

E35

Drugs

8/3/1965

Season 5

34 Episodes

1968

E01

Give Us the Works

9/10/1968

An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.

E02

Spies for Hire

9/16/1968

E03

February's Children

9/23/1968

An investigation into 7 children (expelled from Kenya) who have to live on their own in the UK as their parents cannot join them due to new laws.

E04

Episode 4

9/30/1968

E05

New Drugs, Same Needle

10/7/1968

The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.

E06

A Score to Settle

10/14/1968

Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.

E07

Backs to the Wall

10/21/1968

A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.

E08

Special: Vietnam

10/27/1968

E09

A City Stumbles

11/4/1968

A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.

E10

Nasser's Fortified Ditch

11/11/1968

E11

An Outbreak of Peace?

11/18/1968

With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.

E12

A Buyer's Market

11/25/1968

The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.

E13

The Trail of the Vanishing Voters

12/9/1968

World in Action tries to trace the overseas voters in Britain who have supposedly voted for The People's National Congress Party in Guyana's election.

E14

The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom

12/16/1968

A profile of Laos, considered the most unproductive country in the world but rich and financially stable through its passing of opium products and dodgy gold.

E15

First Class Delivery

12/23/1968

The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.

E16

Sorry, Nothing Doing

12/30/1968

Update on the subjects of three notable previous films in the series, the gypsies of An Outlaw's Life (1968), the large family of The Born Losers (1967), and the elderly ladies of Ward F.13 (1968).

E17

The Making of a Prime Minister

1/6/1969

E18

Next Year in Peking

1/13/1969

E19

All Change at Newry!

1/20/1969

E20

A New School of Thought

1/27/1969

E21

Death of a Student

2/3/1969

The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.

E22

Like Other Men

2/10/1969

Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.

E23

Living in the Red

2/17/1969

E24

A War on Ice

2/24/1969

E25

Home for a Revolution

3/3/1969

E26

Where People Don't Matter

3/10/1969

The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.

E27

A Case to Answer

3/17/1969

Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

E28

The Men Left Behind

3/24/1969

E29

The Six Day War - Day 666

3/31/1969

E30

The Owners and the Owned

4/14/1969

Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.

E31

Inside Out

4/21/1969

A revolutionary new look at how mental patients should be treated, allowing them out into the wider world, and distancing as much as possible from Victorian lunatic asylums.

E32

A modest proposal

5/5/1969

E33

Two Men in Two Tin Huts

5/12/1969

Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.

E34

The Leftovers

5/19/1969

Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.

Season 9

38 Episodes

1972

E01

See for Yourself!

9/11/1972

A London shop steward opposed to immigration is invited to visit Uganda, and see why Asians there have to leave for their own safety and find a new home.

E02

A Matter of Discretion

9/18/1972

E03

A Question of Torture

9/25/1972

E04

The Colenso Diamond

10/2/1972

E05

The Children of Vorenezh

10/9/1972

E06

Is the Press Biased Against the Labour Party? Wilson Verses Rees-Mogg

10/16/1972

E07

Hotels

10/23/1972

E08

Canadian Indians

10/30/1972

E09

The Stripping of the Appalachia

11/6/1972

E10

Police for Sale

11/8/1972

E11

Wales for Sale

11/13/1972

E12

The Case of Leopold Tresser - Master Spy

11/20/1972

E13

On Site

11/27/1972

An investigation into how the appalling accident record on construction sites can be improved.

E14

A Day in the Life of Kevin Donnellon

12/4/1972

World in Action spends a day with thalidomide victim, 10 year old Kevin Donnellon.

E15

The Angry Brigade

12/7/1972

Meeting the young anarchists involved in a guerrilla bombing campaign.

E16

The Cut Price Society of Sidney Carter

1/15/1973

E17

How Safe Are American Nuclear Reactors?

1/22/1973

E18

The Get Rich Quick Guide

1/29/1973

E19

Ready Willing and Disabled

2/19/1973

E20

Last Tangle in Paris

2/26/1973

E21

Conversations with a Gay Liberal

3/5/1973

Sam Green, a psychiatric nurse, has been elected to Durham council despite being open about his homosexuality. Are attitudes to homosexuals changing?

E22

Episode 22

3/12/1973

E23

The Coal Enquiries

3/19/1973

E24

The Protestant Succession No.2

3/26/1973

E25

The Watergate Caper

4/2/1973

E26

The Bormann Business

4/14/1973

E27

The Rise & Fall of John Poulson

4/30/1973

E28

South Vietnam: A Question of Torture

5/7/1973

E29

A Place in the Country

5/14/1973

E30

A Small Case of Blackmail

5/21/1973

E31

Trial 1001

6/4/1973

Trade Unions are illegal in Spain, this looks at the mounting court cases as people continue to defy the law.

E32

Dr. Hammer goes to Moscow

6/18/1973

E35

Who Goes Home?

6/25/1973

E36

Frank's Bank

7/2/1973

E37

Like It or Lump It

7/9/1973

The principals of 'lump labour' appear to be the main cause of a dispute with unions, causing the delay in the building of a much needed Islington public housing project.

E38

Dr. Burnham Does It Again

7/23/1973

E39

Secrets

7/30/1973

E40

A Message from the Underground

8/6/1973

Season 8

37 Episodes

1971

E01

The Village That Quit, Well Not Exactly

9/6/1971

E02

The Sounds of the Clyde

9/13/1971

E03

Episode 3

9/20/1971

E04

Death of a revolutionary

9/27/1971

The aftermath of the shooting dead of Black Panther George Jackson while allegedly trying to escape from prison. His friends, colleagues and family mourn and seek justice for what they say was a murder.

E05

Episode 5

10/4/1971

E06

Episode 6

10/11/1971

E07

Episode 7

10/18/1971

E08

Does an M.P. Have the Right?

10/25/1971

E09

The Most Widely Used Drug in the World.

11/15/1971

Aspirins are used for a multitude of different complaints, or even just taken as a daily habit. But, do they have harmful side effects of which people are unaware?

E10

Episode 10

11/22/1971

E11

The Backseat Generals

11/29/1971

E12

Year of the Killing

11/21/1971

Researching on Bangladesh liberation war movement in uk 1971.

E13

Episode 13

11/29/1971

E14

Working the Land

1/10/1972

E15

The Thirty Million Power Game

1/17/1972

E16

Episode 16

1/24/1972

E17

War in the Air

3/13/1972

E18

Waiting for the Package

3/20/1972

Attitudes in Ulster to the British government's proposals for direct rule.

E19

The Lump

3/27/1972

A look at the reasons behind the continuing bad relations between building workers and management, which lead to a strike at a Birmingham construction site.

E20

Het Dorp

4/10/1972

E21

Out of the Melting Pot

4/17/1972

E22

The Rule of Law

4/24/1972

E23

Containers

5/1/1972

Follows the industrial dispute between Liverpool Dockers and the Heaton's Container yard.

E24

Liberty Belles

5/8/1972

E25

Conversations with a Single Parent

5/15/1972

E26

The Runcorn Experiment

5/22/1972

E27

The Siege of Kontum

6/5/1972

World in Action reports from the battle of Kontum, Vietnam - highlighting the plight of the Montagnard mountain people who are caught in the middle.

E28

The Protestant Succession

6/12/1972

E29

The Docks Dispute

6/19/1972

E30

How to Make Enemies & Influence People

6/26/1972

E31

Dust-Up at Northfleet

7/3/1972

E32

In Search of Gusty Spence

7/10/1972

An interview with the Irish Protestant who denies the murder for which he was convicted, and is being held by the Ulster Volunteer Force who kidnapped him while he was on parole.

E33

How to Steal a Party

7/17/1972

E34

Episode 34

7/24/1972

E35

Episode 35

7/31/1972

E36

Caught in the Act

8/7/1972

E37

Eh! What?

8/14/1972

Investigation into the problem of noise pollution at work, about which there has been silence for far too long.

Season 14

34 Episodes

1977

E01

The Man Who Talks to Terrorists

9/26/1977

E02

The Life and Death of Steve Biko

10/3/1977

Coverage of the immediate aftermath of the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko while in the custody of South African police.

E03

No Compromise

10/10/1977

E04

The Miami Experiment

10/17/1977

E05

The Surgery Is Now Closed

10/24/1977

E06

Eastern Promise

10/31/1977

E07

The Accident

11/7/1977

Investigates a claim by Russian Scientist Dr Zhores Medvedev, that the biggest nuclear accident of all, occurred 20 years previous in the Southern Ural Mountains, where many people died.

E08

The Disputed Land

11/14/1977

E09

Got It Taped

11/21/1977

E10

In the Name of the Law

11/28/1977

Investigates the death of Liddle Towers, who was arrested while drunk, but then died in the custody of Northumbria Police Force.

E11

Thatcher Interview

1/30/1978

E12

Cold Facts

2/6/1978

People unable to pay their bills are still having their services cut off, despite a reassurance that it would not happen anymore. Follow up to a previous programme a year ago.

E13

The Concrete Rings

2/13/1978

Price fixing in the mixed concrete industry.

E14

Working for a Pittance

2/20/1978

An examination of how 50 000 physically and mentally disabled people earn a maximum of £4 a week for up to 27 hours of menial work.

E15

Death by Request

3/24/1978

One woman's plight to have the Suicide Act amended due to her deteriorating health condition.

E16

There's No Place Like Hulme

4/10/1978

Investigates why houses in Hulme that were built in the 1960s are now being recommended to be demolished.

E17

The Right's Centre

4/17/1978

E18

Black to Front

4/24/1978

E19

In the Public Interest

5/8/1978

E20

General Grigorenko's New Campaign

5/15/1978

E21

Take Care, This Place is Unsafe

5/22/1978

Investigation into the King's College Hospital after it closed down for several hours due to staff shortages and the dangerous situation it left patients in.

E22

Smoking - A Double Standard

6/5/1978

E23

Dishonourable Discharge

6/12/1978

E24

Wait and See

6/19/1978

E25

Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Made in Korea

6/20/1978

E26

The Happiness Pill?

6/26/1978

E27

The Nazi Party

7/3/1978

Using sworn statements from an undercover police officer, an investigation into whether Britain's National Front is a thinly-veiled modern Nazi Party.

E28

Prisoner of Terrorism

7/10/1978

A look at the activities and history of the notorious Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, including an interview with one of the gang's kingpins, Horst Mahler.

E29

Russian Justice

7/17/1978

Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.

E30

Buying Time

7/24/1978

Covert filming in Walton & Wakefield Jails provides evidence of corruption.

E31

Liable to Prosecution

7/31/1978

E32

No Useful Purpose Would Be Served

8/7/1978

E33

Power for Sale

8/14/1978

E34

The Invisible Risk

8/21/1978

Season 24

40 Episodes

1987

E01

Fighting for Jennifer

9/21/1987

E02

The Strange Case of the Disappearing Diamonds

9/28/1987

About how billions of pounds' worth of gem diamonds were stripped from South West Africa (Namibia) over a 20-year period by the world's largest diamond mining company.

E03

The Wrong Stuff

10/5/1987

E04

They Are Under Starters Orders

10/12/1987

E05

The People the World Forgot: Boat People in Hong Kong

10/19/1987

The plight of Vietnamese boat people in the camps of Hong Kong.

E06

Your Life in Tired Hands

10/26/1987

E07

The Planning Game

11/2/1987

E08

A Dangerous Prescription

11/9/1987

E09

The Secret in the Circles

11/16/1987

E10

The Black Mist

11/23/1987

E11

Eastenders

11/30/1987

E12

Suffer Little Children

12/7/1987

E13

Teachers in Trouble: Discipline in Schools

12/14/1987

The problem of violence in British schools.

E14

Still Crazy After All These Years?

1/4/1988

A follow up to what became of the angry young men featured in 1968.

E15

Dirty Money

1/11/1988

E16

Sun, Sand and Secrets

1/18/1988

E17

Cameras in the Commons

1/25/1988

E18

The Secret Life of Ned Walsh

2/1/1988

E19

Political Vetting of Job Applicants

2/8/1988

E20

Yesterday's Heroes

2/15/1988

E21

Tall Stories

2/22/1988

E22

The Taming of the Beeb

2/29/1988

E23

The Detox

3/7/1988

E24

Faith, Hope and Charity

3/14/1988

E25

Kurt Waldheim - The Man Who Lived a Lie: Part 1

3/21/1988

E26

Kurt Waldheim - The Man Who Lived a Lie: Part 2

3/28/1988

E27

Heartbreak Hotels

4/4/1988

Homeless families living in hostels and hotels in London

E28

The Trial of Theresa

4/18/1988

E29

The Hanging Debate

4/25/1988

E30

Doctor Beale's Diagnosis

5/9/1988

Exploring the theory of a link between redundancy and developing bad health.

E31

Help Yourselves

5/16/1988

E32

The Sex Slaves of Europe

5/23/1988

E33

Bitter Sweets

6/6/1988

E34

TV-am Dispute

6/13/1988

E35

Death of a Funny Man

6/20/1988

The murder of Palestinian cartoonist Naji al Ali in London and the connection between a double agent spying on the PLO.

E36

The Violent World of Nicholas Hoogstraten

6/27/1988

An exposure of the bullying and intimidation of the notoriously ruthless landlord.

E37

The Secret of the Safer Cigarette

7/4/1988

Did US tobacco companies discover, test and then decide not to market a safer cigarette? A World in Action investigation.

E38

No Porsche for Derek B

7/11/1988

E39

Bhopal - Tragedy Without End

7/18/1988

3 1/2 years after a poisonous gas cloud enveloped the city killing many citizens, an examination of the plight of the surviving citizens.

E40

A Very British Mercenary

7/25/1988

Season 25

41 Episodes

1988

E01

A Death in the Family

9/19/1988

E02

Here's to a Happy Future

9/26/1988

E03

Dr. Chiswick's Dilemma

10/3/1988

E04

For a Few Pennies More

10/10/1988

E05

A Dream Betrayed

10/17/1988

E06

The Price of a Life

10/24/1988

E07

The Last Days of a God King

10/31/1988

E08

The Triangle of Terror-Triads Part 1

11/7/1988

E09

A Myriad of Swords- Triads Part 2

11/14/1988

E10

Wouldn't You Like to Know

11/21/1988

E11

How Green Is My Valley

11/28/1988

E12

A Trip Round Acid House

12/5/1988

E13

Down Under and Dying

12/12/1988

E14

Doing the Honours

12/19/1988

E15

Nine Out of Ten Women

1/9/1989

E16

Disaster

1/16/1989

E17

Bending the Rules

1/23/1989

E18

Secrets of the Diamond Ring

1/30/1989

E19

The Race to St. Paul's

2/6/1989

E20

Disposable Risk

2/13/1989

E21

Costing a Bomb

2/20/1989

E22

Mandy Is Missing

2/27/1989

E23

A Home for Mandy

3/6/1989

E24

The Lottery of Life

3/13/1989

E25

A Sickness in the Air

3/20/1989

E26

Scotland Yard's Cocaine Connection

4/3/1989

E27

Murder Capital, U.S.A.

4/10/1989

E28

Hillsborough Football Disaster

4/17/1989

E29

Private World of Mr. Browne

4/24/1989

Conservative MP John Browne is trying to restrict journalistic intrusions into MP's lives, this programme reveals he has undeclared business interests of his own.

E30

Episode 30

5/1/1989

E31

Spongers

5/15/1989

E32

Ismael's War

5/22/1989

E33

Jaguar - Racing for Survival

6/5/1989

E34

British Settlers on the West Bank

6/12/1989

E35

If Disaster Strikes

6/19/1989

E36

The Killing Zone

6/26/1989

E37

Three Minute Warning

7/3/1989

A three minute test can now indicate dangerous amounts of cholesterol in a person's body and cholesterol dissolving drugs can be supplied. However some doctors here argue that its time for the government to change the nation's eating habits.

E38

Behind the Wall - Risley Remand Centre

7/10/1989

E39

Blood on His Hands

7/17/1989

Makes the claim that Palestinian Ahmed Djibril is a suspect for the Pan Am flight 103 explosion over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, and tests Frankfurt Airport's security six months after the disaster.

E40

Flight Into the Unknown

7/24/1989

Investigates air safety and follows the maintenance procedure of a 20 year old Boeing 737.

E41

Price of Liberation - The Agony of Lebanon

7/31/1989

Season 31

38 Episodes

1994

E01

The Fag Lady

7/11/1994

E02

Dying for a Holiday

7/18/1994

E03

Flirting with Danger

7/25/1994

E04

Smashed in the Summer

8/1/1994

E05

One Woman's War

8/8/1994

E06

People of the Apocalypse

8/15/1994

E07

The Bugs That Drugs Cannot Kill

8/22/1994

E08

The Peace Maker

9/5/1994

The man credited with doing most to create peace in Ireland, John Hume, talks about his views and his methods.

E09

The Man Who Paid the Bill

9/12/1994

E10

Give Us a Break

9/19/1994

E11

Retired Hurt

9/26/1994

E12

Open All Hours

10/3/1994

E13

The Cure That Killed

10/10/1994

E14

A Fatal Prescription

10/17/1994

E15

The Journey

10/24/1994

E16

The Wrong Arm of the Law

10/31/1994

E17

Episode 17

11/7/1994

E18

The Ministry of Bribes

11/14/1994

E19

Citizen Cone

11/21/1994

E20

A Shot in the Dark

11/28/1994

E21

The Housing Hangover

12/5/1994

E22

Mind Games

12/12/1994

E23

Through the Keyhole

1/9/1995

E24

Throwaway Children

1/16/1995

Depicts England's street children. It is not only countries in distant parts of the world where children live their lives on the streets. Even in the Western world, there are young people who choose to leave their own families or foster homes to fend for themselves. They are short of money and many are lured into crime, prostitution and begging. Some use drugs as a temporary escape. This documentary portrays sisters Mandy and Debbie, two of London's homeless girls who live on the streets of London.

E25

National Health Secret Service

1/23/1995

E26

The Back Seat Killer

1/30/1995

Examines the safety of rear seated passengers in hatchback cars during an impact.

E27

Take the Low Road

2/6/1995

Exposes the easy access to narcotics on the streets in Strathclyde Scotland.

E28

Victims of Their Success

2/13/1995

E29

Sex Off the Streets

2/20/1995

E30

Prisoners of the Past

2/27/1995

E31

Shot in the Back

3/6/1995

E32

Who's Gambling with Your Money?

3/13/1995

E33

Parents in the Dock

3/20/1995

E34

The Nightmare Returns

3/27/1995

E35

In the Name of Charity

4/3/1995

E36

Jonathan of Arabia

4/10/1995

E37

Black and Blue

4/24/1995

E38

Friends in High Places

5/1/1995