World in Action
Season 5
196834 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Give Us the Works
1968-09-10
An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.
- E2
Spies for Hire
1968-09-16
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E3
February's Children
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.
- E4
Episode 4
1968-09-30
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E5
New Drugs, Same Needle
1968-10-07
The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.
- E6
A Score to Settle
1968-10-14
Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.
- E7
Backs to the Wall
1968-10-21
A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.
- E8
Special: Vietnam
1968-10-27
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E9
A City Stumbles
1968-11-04
A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.
- E10
Nasser's Fortified Ditch
1968-11-11
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E11
An Outbreak of Peace?
1968-11-18
With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.
- E12
A Buyer's Market
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.
- E13
The Trail of the Vanishing Voters
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.
- E14
The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom
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.
- E15
First Class Delivery
1968-12-23
The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.
- E16
Sorry, Nothing Doing
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).
- E17
The Making of a Prime Minister
1969-01-06
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E18
Next Year in Peking
1969-01-13
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E19
All Change at Newry!
1969-01-20
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E20
A New School of Thought
1969-01-27
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E21
Death of a Student
1969-02-03
The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.
- E22
Like Other Men
1969-02-10
Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.
- E23
Living in the Red
1969-02-17
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E24
A War on Ice
1969-02-24
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E25
Home for a Revolution
1969-03-03
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E26
Where People Don't Matter
1969-03-10
The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.
- E27
A Case to Answer
1969-03-17
Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.
- E28
The Men Left Behind
1969-03-24
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E29
The Six Day War - Day 666
1969-03-31
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E30
The Owners and the Owned
1969-04-14
Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.
- E31
Inside Out
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.
- E32
A modest proposal
1969-05-05
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E33
Two Men in Two Tin Huts
1969-05-12
Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.
- E34
The Leftovers
1969-05-19
Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.