World in Action
Season 5
196834 episodes
Episode 1
Give Us the Works
Sep 10, 1968
An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.
Episode 2
Spies for Hire
Sep 16, 1968
Episode 3
February's Children
Sep 23, 1968
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.
Episode 4
Episode 4
Sep 30, 1968
Episode 5
New Drugs, Same Needle
Oct 7, 1968
The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.
Episode 6
A Score to Settle
Oct 14, 1968
Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.
Episode 7
Backs to the Wall
Oct 21, 1968
A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.
Episode 8
Special: Vietnam
Oct 27, 1968
Episode 9
A City Stumbles
Nov 4, 1968
A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.
Episode 10
Nasser's Fortified Ditch
Nov 11, 1968
Episode 11
An Outbreak of Peace?
Nov 18, 1968
With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.
Episode 12
A Buyer's Market
Nov 25, 1968
The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.
Episode 13
The Trail of the Vanishing Voters
Dec 9, 1968
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.
Episode 14
The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom
Dec 16, 1968
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.
Episode 15
First Class Delivery
Dec 23, 1968
The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.
Episode 16
Sorry, Nothing Doing
Dec 30, 1968
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).
Episode 17
The Making of a Prime Minister
Jan 6, 1969
Episode 18
Next Year in Peking
Jan 13, 1969
Episode 19
All Change at Newry!
Jan 20, 1969
Episode 20
A New School of Thought
Jan 27, 1969
Episode 21
Death of a Student
Feb 3, 1969
The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.
Episode 22
Like Other Men
Feb 10, 1969
Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.
Episode 23
Living in the Red
Feb 17, 1969
Episode 24
A War on Ice
Feb 24, 1969
Episode 25
Home for a Revolution
Mar 3, 1969
Episode 26
Where People Don't Matter
Mar 10, 1969
The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.
Episode 27
A Case to Answer
Mar 17, 1969
Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.
Episode 28
The Men Left Behind
Mar 24, 1969
Episode 29
The Six Day War - Day 666
Mar 31, 1969
Episode 30
The Owners and the Owned
Apr 14, 1969
Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.
Episode 31
Inside Out
Apr 21, 1969
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.
Episode 32
A modest proposal
May 5, 1969
Episode 33
Two Men in Two Tin Huts
May 12, 1969
Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.
Episode 34
The Leftovers
May 19, 1969
Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.