World in Action
Season 13
197639 episodes
Episode 1
Unemployment - Who Cares?
Sep 27, 1976
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.
Episode 2
Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma
Oct 4, 1976
Episode 3
A School of Thought
Oct 11, 1976
Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.
Episode 4
Mr Cork Examines the Books
Oct 18, 1976
An ordinary accountant is given the theoretical task of being Chancellor of the Exchequer and giving his take on the situation.
Episode 5
Campaigning by Numbers
Oct 25, 1976
Episode 6
Yesterday's Truants
Nov 1, 1976
Follow up programme to one five years previous to find out what happened to some persistent school truants.
Episode 7
Living Dangerously
Nov 8, 1976
The effects of the chemical Dioxin after a factory explosion in Italy.
Episode 8
The Killing of Uganda
Nov 15, 1976
Episode 9
The National Party
Nov 22, 1976
Following the racial violence in Blackburn, looks at the rise of the extreme right wing.
Episode 10
The Long Arm of the Dina
Nov 29, 1976
Episode 11
The Lawbreakers
Dec 6, 1976
Episode 12
Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour
Dec 13, 1976
Episode 13
Mr Opie Brings Bad News
Jan 10, 1977
Episode 14
Doctor's Orders
Jan 17, 1977
Doctors complain that they are being put under pressure by both patients and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe certain drugs.
Episode 15
Episode 15
Jan 24, 1977
Episode 16
The Militants
Jan 31, 1977
Investigates why the Labour Party is allowing a group within to produce a newspaper like 'The Militant'.
Episode 17
Waiting for Merlyn
Feb 7, 197730m
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
Episode 18
The Road to Amsterdam
Feb 14, 1977
Episode 19
The Police Tapes
Feb 21, 1977
Episode 21
Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow
Feb 28, 1977
Episode 22
Do You Take This Man?
Mar 7, 1977
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.
Episode 23
From Death Row-To Downing St
Mar 14, 1977
Episode 24
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us
Mar 21, 1977
Episode 25
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 1
Mar 28, 1977
Episode 26
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 2
Apr 4, 1977
Episode 27
The Plane Makers
Apr 18, 1977
Episode 28
The Prison Children
Apr 25, 1977
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?
Episode 29
All Work and Low Pay
May 2, 1977
Episode 30
What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know
May 16, 1977
Episode 31
The Man Who Went Too Far
May 23, 1977
Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.
Episode 32
Casualties of the Cuts
May 30, 1977
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.
Episode 33
Without Limit of Time
Jun 13, 1977
Episode 34
My Years with Amin
Jun 20, 1977
Episode 35
Starting on the Dole
Jun 27, 1977
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.
Episode 36
The Very Public Death of Enrico Sidoli
Jul 4, 1977
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.
Episode 37
Jack's Last Stand
Jul 11, 1977
Episode 38
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 1
Jul 18, 1977
Episode 39
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 2
Jul 25, 1977
Episode 40
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 3
Aug 1, 1977