Episodes List

Ep.1 Give Us the Works

Air Date: 1968-09-10

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

Ep.2 Spies for Hire

Air Date: 1968-09-16

Ep.3 February's Children

Air Date: 1968-09-23

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.

Ep.4 Episode 4

Air Date: 1968-09-30

Ep.5 New Drugs, Same Needle

Air Date: 1968-10-07

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

Ep.6 A Score to Settle

Air Date: 1968-10-14

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

Ep.7 Backs to the Wall

Air Date: 1968-10-21

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

Ep.8 Special: Vietnam

Air Date: 1968-10-27

Ep.9 A City Stumbles

Air Date: 1968-11-04

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

Ep.10 Nasser's Fortified Ditch

Air Date: 1968-11-11

Ep.11 An Outbreak of Peace?

Air Date: 1968-11-18

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

Ep.12 A Buyer's Market

Air Date: 1968-11-25

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

Ep.13 The Trail of the Vanishing Voters

Air Date: 1968-12-09

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.

Ep.14 The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom

Air Date: 1968-12-16

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.

Ep.15 First Class Delivery

Air Date: 1968-12-23

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

Ep.16 Sorry, Nothing Doing

Air Date: 1968-12-30

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).

Ep.17 The Making of a Prime Minister

Air Date: 1969-01-06

Ep.18 Next Year in Peking

Air Date: 1969-01-13

Ep.19 All Change at Newry!

Air Date: 1969-01-20

Ep.20 A New School of Thought

Air Date: 1969-01-27

Ep.21 Death of a Student

Air Date: 1969-02-03

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

Ep.22 Like Other Men

Air Date: 1969-02-10

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

Ep.23 Living in the Red

Air Date: 1969-02-17

Ep.24 A War on Ice

Air Date: 1969-02-24

Ep.25 Home for a Revolution

Air Date: 1969-03-03

Ep.26 Where People Don't Matter

Air Date: 1969-03-10

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

Ep.27 A Case to Answer

Air Date: 1969-03-17

Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

Ep.28 The Men Left Behind

Air Date: 1969-03-24

Ep.29 The Six Day War - Day 666

Air Date: 1969-03-31

Ep.30 The Owners and the Owned

Air Date: 1969-04-14

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

Ep.31 Inside Out

Air Date: 1969-04-21

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.

Ep.32 A modest proposal

Air Date: 1969-05-05

Ep.33 Two Men in Two Tin Huts

Air Date: 1969-05-12

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

Ep.34 The Leftovers

Air Date: 1969-05-19

Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.