Whicker's World

California

6 episodes · Apr 16, 1980

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  • S11E1

    California: I Wear a Uniform and Pack a Gun - But I'm Still a Woman...

    Apr 16, 1980

    Alan Whicker looks at the rise in female police officers in the U.S. and talks to several women who joined the force and the prejudice they face from the public and their own male colleagues.

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  • S11E2

    California: If a Cop Wiggled Around with Pink Hair and a Limp Wrist, It Would Discredit the Department...

    Apr 16, 1980

    Alan Whicker looks at the recruitment drive in the San Francisco Police Department aimed at getting more officers from the Lesbian and Gay Community.

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  • S11E3

    California: I Feel Trapped in Paradise Here...

    Apr 23, 1980

    lan Whicker visits Los Angeles and meets Britt Ekland and Sherry Lansing, goes to a birthday party for dogs and talks to starstruck teenagers and their pushy mothers anxious to see their offspring make it in show-business.

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  • S11E4

    California: He'll Never Have to Divorce Me... He Can Always Change Me

    Apr 30, 1980

    Alan Whicker revisits plastic surgeon Dr. Kurt Wagner and his wife Kathy, whom he first met in 1973.

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  • S11E5

    California: Nothing Is Utopia, This Comes Pretty Close

    May 7, 1980

    Alan Whicker meets some of the 50,000 Britons who live in Los Angeles, including actors Patrick Macnee, Christopher Lee and Peter Sellers (in one of his last ever television interviews).

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  • S11E6

    California: Shooting Somebody... It's Called Survival

    May 14, 1980

    Alan Whicker examines the fear of violence that causes so many ordinary Americans to pack a gun, and goes to a school that teaches people how to shoot to kill.

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