World in Action
Season 13
1976 · 39 episodes
1. Unemployment - Who Cares?
1976-09-27
Unemployment has now risen to the notable 1 million mark and this investigation shows the detrimental effect it can have on those people who loose their job.
2. Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma
1976-10-04
3. A School of Thought
1976-10-11
Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.
4. Mr Cork Examines the Books
1976-10-18
An ordinary accountant is given the theoretical task of being Chancellor of the Exchequer and giving his take on the situation.
5. Campaigning by Numbers
1976-10-25
6. Yesterday's Truants
1976-11-01
Follow up programme to one five years previous to find out what happened to some persistent school truants.
7. Living Dangerously
1976-11-08
The effects of the chemical Dioxin after a factory explosion in Italy.
8. The Killing of Uganda
1976-11-15
9. The National Party
1976-11-22
Following the racial violence in Blackburn, looks at the rise of the extreme right wing.
10. The Long Arm of the Dina
1976-11-29
11. The Lawbreakers
1976-12-06
12. Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour
1976-12-13
13. Mr Opie Brings Bad News
1977-01-10
14. Doctor's Orders
1977-01-17
Doctors complain that they are being put under pressure by both patients and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe certain drugs.
15. Episode 15
1977-01-24
16. The Militants
1977-01-31
Investigates why the Labour Party is allowing a group within to produce a newspaper like 'The Militant'.
17. Waiting for Merlyn
1977-02-07 · 30m
An investigation into the Home Secretary's decision to declare two men as a threat to British Security and his moves to have them deported
18. The Road to Amsterdam
1977-02-14
19. The Police Tapes
1977-02-21
21. Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow
1977-02-28
22. Do You Take This Man?
1977-03-07
A report on the growing number of Asian girls in the UK who are rejecting the traditional arranged marriage to someone they do not know.
23. From Death Row-To Downing St
1977-03-14
24. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us
1977-03-21
25. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 1
1977-03-28
26. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 2
1977-04-04
27. The Plane Makers
1977-04-18
28. The Prison Children
1977-04-25
It is against the law in the UK to put children into prison, so how did 4000 under 17-year-olds come to spend time behind bars?
29. All Work and Low Pay
1977-05-02
30. What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know
1977-05-16
31. The Man Who Went Too Far
1977-05-23
Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.
32. Casualties of the Cuts
1977-05-30
Looking at two hospitals that may have to close down, and another who's budget is not coping with the demand of an increasing population.
33. Without Limit of Time
1977-06-13
34. My Years with Amin
1977-06-20
35. Starting on the Dole
1977-06-27
With the continuing rise in youth unemployment, follows two Liverpool teenagers as they look for work and examines the validity of government job creation schemes.
36. The Very Public Death of Enrico Sidoli
1977-07-04
In July of the previous year Enrico was beaten up in a London swimming pool by three youths and held under water, he died days later of injuries. Apart from one girl, nobody there appears to have noticed anything.
37. Jack's Last Stand
1977-07-11
38. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 1
1977-07-18
39. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 2
1977-07-25
40. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 3
1977-08-01
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