World in Action

Season 13

39 episodes · premiered Sep 27, 1976

Where to watch World in Action

  1. E1 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.

  2. E2 Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma

    Oct 4, 1976

  3. E3 A School of Thought

    Oct 11, 1976

    Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.

  4. E4 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.

  5. E5 Campaigning by Numbers

    Oct 25, 1976

  6. E6 Yesterday's Truants

    Nov 1, 1976

    Follow up programme to one five years previous to find out what happened to some persistent school truants.

  7. E7 Living Dangerously

    Nov 8, 1976

    The effects of the chemical Dioxin after a factory explosion in Italy.

  8. E8 The Killing of Uganda

    Nov 15, 1976

  9. E9 The National Party

    Nov 22, 1976

    Following the racial violence in Blackburn, looks at the rise of the extreme right wing.

  10. E10 The Long Arm of the Dina

    Nov 29, 1976

  11. E11 The Lawbreakers

    Dec 6, 1976

  12. E12 Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour

    Dec 13, 1976

  13. E13 Mr Opie Brings Bad News

    Jan 10, 1977

  14. E14 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.

  15. E15 Episode 15

    Jan 24, 1977

  16. E16 The Militants

    Jan 31, 1977

    Investigates why the Labour Party is allowing a group within to produce a newspaper like 'The Militant'.

  17. E17 Waiting for Merlyn

    Feb 7, 1977 · 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. E18 The Road to Amsterdam

    Feb 14, 1977

  19. E19 The Police Tapes

    Feb 21, 1977

  20. E21 Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow

    Feb 28, 1977

  21. E22 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.

  22. E23 From Death Row-To Downing St

    Mar 14, 1977

  23. E24 Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us

    Mar 21, 1977

  24. E25 Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 1

    Mar 28, 1977

  25. E26 Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 2

    Apr 4, 1977

  26. E27 The Plane Makers

    Apr 18, 1977

  27. E28 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?

  28. E29 All Work and Low Pay

    May 2, 1977

  29. E30 What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know

    May 16, 1977

  30. E31 The Man Who Went Too Far

    May 23, 1977

    Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.

  31. E32 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.

  32. E33 Without Limit of Time

    Jun 13, 1977

  33. E34 My Years with Amin

    Jun 20, 1977

  34. E35 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.

  35. E36 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.

  36. E37 Jack's Last Stand

    Jul 11, 1977

  37. E38 Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 1

    Jul 18, 1977

  38. E39 Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 2

    Jul 25, 1977

  39. E40 Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 3

    Aug 1, 1977