Season 5
34 episodes · Sep 10, 1968
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- S5E1
Give Us the Works
Sep 10, 1968An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.
- S5E3
February's Children
Sep 23, 1968An 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.
- S5E5
New Drugs, Same Needle
Oct 7, 1968The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.
- S5E6
A Score to Settle
Oct 14, 1968Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.
- S5E7
Backs to the Wall
Oct 21, 1968A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.
- S5E9
A City Stumbles
Nov 4, 1968A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.
- S5E11
An Outbreak of Peace?
Nov 18, 1968With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.
- S5E12
A Buyer's Market
Nov 25, 1968The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.
- S5E13
The Trail of the Vanishing Voters
Dec 9, 1968World 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.
- S5E14
The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom
Dec 16, 1968A 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.
- S5E15
First Class Delivery
Dec 23, 1968The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.
- S5E16
Sorry, Nothing Doing
Dec 30, 1968Update 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).
- S5E21
Death of a Student
Feb 3, 1969The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.
- S5E22
Like Other Men
Feb 10, 1969Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.
- S5E26
Where People Don't Matter
Mar 10, 1969The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.
- S5E27
A Case to Answer
Mar 17, 1969Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.
- S5E30
The Owners and the Owned
Apr 14, 1969Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.
- S5E31
Inside Out
Apr 21, 1969A 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.
- S5E33
Two Men in Two Tin Huts
May 12, 1969Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.