Episodes List
Ep.1 Hong Kong: When You Lose Power You Don't Go and Grow Raspberries... You Get Hanged
Air Date: 1990-02-16
Thirty years after his first visit there, Alan Whicker returns to Hong Kong and looks at its society and its political and economic structure.
Ep.2 Hong Kong: My Great Grandfather Had Six Wives...
Air Date: 1990-02-23
Alan Whicker tours the waterfront on a craft owned by a Chinese man who reads The Times and smokes cigars, meets a businessman who serves caviar with a pearl shovel, and a woman who is a telecommunications tycoon who visits soothsayers.
Ep.3 Hong Kong: Face Had to Be Provided for Both Sides...
Air Date: 1990-03-02
Alan Whicker looks at the treatment of the widows of the men killed when defending the colony in 1941, to a police chief about how illegal immigrants are treated on both sides of the border, and the immensely wealthy Kadoorie family.
Ep.4 Hong Kong: Jesus Makes You Fat!
Air Date: 1990-03-09
Alan Whicker looks at drugs, crime and capital punishment in Hong Kong, and meets Christian missionary Jackie Pullinger who rescues drug addicts in the Walled City.
Ep.5 Hong Kong: The Psychological Protection of Mr Lo and His Magic Compass
Air Date: 1990-03-16
Alan Whicker looks into the superstitions and belief in fortune tellers of many Hong Kong citizens.
Ep.6 Hong Kong: I Didn't Chop Their Important Organs
Air Date: 1990-03-23
Alan Whicker examines Hong Kong's organised crime syndicate, The Triads, and meets a lawyer who used to prosecute them, a priest who befriended them, and a Traid "enforcer" who is now on the run from them.
Ep.7 Hong Kong: I Don't Think You'll Find Many Doormats Here
Air Date: 1990-03-30
Alan Whicker talks to some of the working, professional women of Hong Kong, both Chinese and European, about their work, roles and the attitudes towards them.
Ep.8 Hong Kong: A Fundamental Need for Insecurity
Air Date: 1990-04-06
Alan Whicker talks to some of the many expatriates who live and work in Hong Kong.
