Season 5

1. 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.

2. Spies for Hire

1968-09-16

3. 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.

4. Episode 4

1968-09-30

5. New Drugs, Same Needle

1968-10-07

The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.

6. A Score to Settle

1968-10-14

Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.

7. Backs to the Wall

1968-10-21

A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.

8. Special: Vietnam

1968-10-27

9. A City Stumbles

1968-11-04

A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.

10. Nasser's Fortified Ditch

1968-11-11

11. An Outbreak of Peace?

1968-11-18

With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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).

17. The Making of a Prime Minister

1969-01-06

18. Next Year in Peking

1969-01-13

19. All Change at Newry!

1969-01-20

20. A New School of Thought

1969-01-27

21. Death of a Student

1969-02-03

The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.

22. Like Other Men

1969-02-10

Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.

23. Living in the Red

1969-02-17

24. A War on Ice

1969-02-24

25. Home for a Revolution

1969-03-03

26. 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.

27. A Case to Answer

1969-03-17

Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

28. The Men Left Behind

1969-03-24

29. The Six Day War - Day 666

1969-03-31

30. 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.

31. 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.

32. A modest proposal

1969-05-05

33. Two Men in Two Tin Huts

1969-05-12

Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.

34. The Leftovers

1969-05-19

Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.