Season 6
27 episodes · Oct 9, 1986
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- S6E1
Ten Days in Holloway
Oct 9, 198640mAn inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.
- S6E2
Dancing in the Rain
Oct 16, 198640mThe glittery world of ballroom dancing - behind the scenes at the World Ballroom Dancing Championships, held this year in Blackpool.
- S6E3
Rescue
Oct 23, 198640mThe lives of the men who make up the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team - a voluntary body of men who help those in difficulty on Ben Nevis and the surrounding mountains.
- S6E4
Olga Goes to Hollywood
Oct 30, 198640mIn 1978 David Lomax secretly interviewed a Russian couple in Moscow after they had been refused exit visas. They were filmed a year later as they arrived in the West. Now they live in Los Angeles. What price have they paid for their freedom?
- S6E5
The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
Nov 20, 198640mAngela Huth asks why is it that as a nation, we have such a rotten reputation as dressers? What are we trying to say about ourselves through our appearance? 'Oh not black again, dear,' says Denis - but Margaret Thatcher knows a secret or two about old faithfuls and reliable standbys. Tonight the Prime Minister reveals, for the first time, the inside story of her wardrobe. Selina Scott always wanting 'to look a bit different from everyone else'; the probation officer who last wore a dress when she danced with the Prince of Wales; the bubbly society hostess who seems to wear only party dresses; the housewife with an eye for the 20p bargain with a designer label - these are just some of the extraordinary and ordinary women who unlock their wardrobes and tell all, proving that the only thing in vogue is individuality.
- S6E6
Special: The Dump
Nov 25, 198640mPlans for dumping nuclear waste in rural Lincolnshire - and how traditionally conservative villagers were aroused to protest against them.
- S6E7
Botham's Out
Nov 27, 198640mEngland cricket hero Ian Botham at home and at work during his Test Match ban.
- S6E8
The Chosen Few
Dec 4, 198640mThe Civil Service Selection Board has never been filmed before. The first of two programmes concentrates on two candidates, one an ex-employee of the Greater London Council, the other a "near miss" of last year.
- S6E9
The Final Board
Dec 11, 198640mThe second film tells of two hopefuls at the last round, one hoping to enter the Foreign Office, the other aiming for the Home Office. Filmed from the points of view of both the candidates and the selectors. The final result is a shock.
- S6E10
Dear Sister
Dec 18, 198640mEight sisters talk frankly and movingly about the complex relationship of sisterhood.
- S6E11
Just for William
Jan 8, 198740mTen-year-old William, suffering from leukaemia, undergoes a successful bone marrow transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London
- S6E13
Home from the Hill
Jan 22, 198740mDocumentary about Colonel Hilary Hook, formerly of the Indian cavalry and leader of extravagant safaris in Kenya. Hook returned home to England after being evicted from his home in the Kenya Hills, and is finding it hard to readjust to the English way of life.
- S6E14
Struggle for Stonebridge
Jan 29, 198740mYoung blacks in deprived Brent struggle for a community centre in a bus garage.
- S6E15
Stirring Stuff
Feb 5, 198740mTea, Britain's national beverage - and the ladies who stir it.
- S6E16
Do You Still Love Me?
Feb 12, 198740mUneasy relationships between step-parents and step-children.
- S6E17
A Cabinet of Curiosities
Feb 19, 198740mLucinda Lambton reveals strange and amusing tales from the dusty corners of museums.
- S6E20
The Quest for Sergeant Miller
Mar 12, 198740mThe son of a wartime aviator traces his father's remarkable survival and escape in France.
- S6E21
House of Spirits
Mar 19, 198740mSpiritualists in London's Belgravia communing with "the other side".
- S6E22
A New Girl
Mar 26, 198740mMoral problems facing a mother who has taken a pregnancy drug and whose child has suffered.
- S6E24
The Mighty Leek
Apr 9, 198740mWorld championship competitive leek-growing in the North-East of England - with dirty deeds in the greenhouses.
- S6E25
Troublesome People
Apr 16, 198740mCaroline Moorehead inquires if pacifists have ever achieved anything over the years.
- S6E27
Bombay Hotel
Apr 30, 198740mUpstairs and downstairs at the famous Taj Mahal Hotel - a luxurious establishment surrounded by poverty.