World in Action
Season 16
198030 episodes
Episode 1
Mr. Benn's Secret Service
Jan 7, 1980
Mr Benn questions the role of the Civil Service and whether it is becoming too powerful and unanswerable for the country's good?
Episode 2
Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis
Jan 14, 1980
Episode 3
Cambodia Year One - Life After Death
Jan 21, 1980
Episode 4
The Man Who Bought United
Jan 28, 1980
Episode 5
The Steel Papers
Feb 4, 1980
Episode 6
Behind the Paper Curtain
Feb 11, 1980
Episode 7
The Pulse of America
Feb 18, 1980
Episode 8
The Final Harvest
Feb 25, 1980
Episode 9
Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy
Mar 3, 1980
Case studies of people on both sides of the current crackdown on social security fraud.
Episode 10
Follow the Yellow Cake Road
Mar 10, 1980
Episode 11
Decline and Fall
Mar 17, 1980
Episode 12
Alive and Well in the U.S.A.
Mar 24, 1980
Episode 13
Not in the Public Interest
Apr 14, 1980
Episode 14
Spying for Survival
Apr 21, 1980
Episode 15
The Pound in Their Pocket
Apr 28, 1980
Episode 16
The Trial of Stanley Adams
May 12, 1980
Episode 17
Britain Over a Barrel
May 19, 1980
Episode 18
A Bad Day for Southall
Jun 2, 1980
Episode 19
Mr. Kane's Campaign
Jun 9, 1980
Episode 20
Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?
Jun 10, 1980
A review of Britain's membership of the Common Market.
Episode 21
Market Day
Jun 16, 1980
Episode 22
Fly the Flag, Pay the Price
Jun 23, 1980
Episode 23
Russian Games
Jun 30, 1980
Episode 24
Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang
Jul 7, 1980
Episode 25
Last Stand at Lisburn
Jul 14, 1980
With communities across Northern Ireland, from the end of the 1960s Lisburn suffered through three decades of political violence, "The Troubles". For Lisburn the first killings came in 1976: in the course of the year, five Catholic residents died as a result of gun and bomb attacks by the Ulster Defence Association and the new Ulster Volunteer Force, loyalist paramilitary groups that subsequently entered their own feud.
Episode 26
Vietnam - Prisoner of War
Jul 14, 1980
Episode 27
A Dignified Exit
Jul 28, 1980
"EXIT" - the society for the right to die with dignity, are publishing a controversial suicide guide for terminally ill people who require a dignified death.
Episode 28
The Tirion Programme
Aug 4, 1980
Episode 29
Suffer the Children
Aug 11, 1980
Episode 30
The Chart Busters
Aug 18, 1980
Investigating allegations that the pop music charts are controlled not by consumers, but by manipulative tactics of the big record companies, thus not being a true reflection of popularity at all.