1989 (1989)
Episodes: 39
Star Cast:
Episodes List
Ep.1 Return to Year Zero?
Air Date: 1989-01-04
Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.
Ep.2 Gorbachev's Asylums
Air Date: 1989-01-11
Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".
Ep.3 Cooking the Books
Air Date: 1989-01-18
Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.
Ep.4 The Spy Who Broke the Code
Air Date: 1989-01-25
Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.
Ep.5 Buckets of Money
Air Date: 1989-02-01
Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.
Ep.6 The Copper Seven Story
Air Date: 1989-02-08
Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.
Ep.7 Afghan
Air Date: 1989-02-15
A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.
Ep.8 The Toxic Trail
Air Date: 1989-02-22
Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.
Ep.9 The Case of 'F'
Air Date: 1989-03-01
Ep.10 The Return of the Death Squads
Air Date: 1989-03-08
Ep.11 Burma - Dying for Democracy
Air Date: 1989-03-15
Ep.12 Voices From Long Larten
Air Date: 1989-03-22
Ep.13 Young, Homeless and Broke
Air Date: 1989-03-29
Ep.14 Chico
Air Date: 1989-04-05
A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
Ep.15 Carry on Flying
Air Date: 1989-04-12
Ep.16 The Most Neglected Crime
Air Date: 1989-04-19
Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.
Ep.17 Dispatches (26/04/1989)
Air Date: 1989-04-26
Ep.18 A Suitable Case for Treatment
Air Date: 1989-05-03
Ep.19 The Sins of the Fathers
Air Date: 1989-05-10
Ep.20 Not What the Doctor Ordered
Air Date: 1989-05-17
Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health
Ep.21 Warlord of Kayan
Air Date: 1989-05-24
Ep.22 The Ultimate Blasphemy
Air Date: 1989-05-31
Ep.23 Fit as a Fiddle
Air Date: 1989-06-07
Ep.24 Empire of the Sun
Air Date: 1989-06-14
Ep.25 Year of the Locust
Air Date: 1989-06-21
Ep.26 A State of Decay
Air Date: 1989-06-28
Ep.27 Terror Island
Air Date: 1989-07-05
Ep.28 The Spanish Connection
Air Date: 1989-10-04
Ep.29 The Day of the Technopath
Air Date: 1989-10-11
Ep.30 No, Prime Minister
Air Date: 1989-10-18
Ep.31 The Undoing of Edwina
Air Date: 1989-10-25
Ep.32 Mission Impossible
Air Date: 1989-11-01
Ep.33 In the Coal Hole
Air Date: 1989-11-08
Ep.34 The False Confession File
Air Date: 1989-11-15
Ep.35 Hungarians Not Comrades
Air Date: 1989-11-22
Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.
Ep.36 Twelve Days in November
Air Date: 1989-11-29
Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.
Ep.37 Licence to Kill
Air Date: 1989-12-06
Ep.38 Privatising Poland
Air Date: 1989-12-13