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World in Action — Storyline

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.

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World in Action — Series Details

World in Action — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Beat the Clock on Defence Spending (1963-01-01) — Military budget over spending is presented as a game show.
• E2: Atomic Arms Race (1963-01-07)
• E3: Congo Conflict (1963-01-14)
• E4: East Germany (1963-01-21)
• E6: Lord Hailsham (1963-02-11)
• E7: Supermarkets (1963-02-18) — An investigation into supermarket practices and their effect on a neighbourhood.
• E8: The Fashion Houses (1963-02-25)
• E9: Tibet (1963-03-11) — A look at the first years of China's occupation of Tibet.
• E10: Harold Wilson (1963-03-25)
• E11: The Gambling Business (1963-03-25)
• E12: Typhoid in Zermatt (1963-04-01)
• E13: Migrants (1963-04-08) — The plight of southern based Italians having to move to the North of Italy for work.
• E14: The Airlines (1963-04-08)
• E15: The Volunteers (1963-04-14) — The valuable contributions young volunteers make.
• E16: The Der Speigel Affair (1963-04-24)
• E17: The Petrol Business (1963-04-29) — An investigation into the UK petrol supply business and techniques used amongst rival firms to win customers.
• E18: The Greek Royal Family (1963-05-06)
• E19: Charities (1963-05-13)
• E20: Stanley Matthews (1963-05-27)
• E21: Litter (1963-06-03) — A look at the country's increasing litter problem.
• E22: Don't Take the Risk (1963-06-10)
• E23: Election Costs (1963-06-24)
• E24: Ivanov (1963-07-01)

Season 2

• E1: The Guns (1963-09-11)
• E2: Lord Denning (1963-09-16)
• E3: Dick Gregory (1963-09-29)
• E4: M.R.A (1963-09-30)
• E5: Oxfam (1963-10-10)
• E6: Blackpool Conference (1963-10-14)
• E7: Living in the Slums (1963-10-22) — A look at conditions in Stepney, London.
• E8: Repairs (1963-10-29)
• E9: Power (1963-11-05)
• E10: The Prime Minister – Sir Alec Douglas Home (1963-11-12)
• E11: The Shadows (1963-11-19)
• E12: Increasing Traffic (1963-11-26)
• E13: The British Way of Death (1963-12-03)
• E14: Dallas (1963-12-03) — A visit to the city of Dallas in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, focusing on the varying reactions and conditions of the people there.
• E15: President Lyndon Johnson (1963-12-10)
• E16: The Cost of Dying (1963-12-17) — Investigates that behind the solemn facade, a funeral service can be an opportunity to take advantage of the situation for monetary gain.
• E17: Cooke on America (1963-12-31)
• E18: Truth About Spain (1964-01-07) — An observation of Spanish Life under Franco.
• E19: Alistair Cooke Reports (1964-01-21)
• E20: Lakonia – The Facts (1964-01-14)
• E21: The Thin Red Line (1964-01-21) — A profile of British Soldiers at various world trouble spots.
• E22: Smuggling (1964-02-04)
• E23: The Power of the Nanny (1964-02-11)
• E24: Cyprus (1964-02-18) — The war in Cyprus between the Turkish and Greek Cypriots.
• E25: Concorde (1964-02-25) — Profile of the world's first supersonic airliner.
• E26: The Great Train Robbery (1964-03-26) — Reconstruction of the recent night mail train robbery
• E27: The Williams Family (1964-03-28) — Plight of a South African family refused entry into Britain.
• E29: Radio Pirates (1964-05-12) — Unique access to the new form of radio which is competing on a not strictly legal level with the BBC – the pirate stations. Those on the outside both for and against also have thei
• E30: How to Make a Million in One Minute Flat (1964-05-19) — A profile of the town of Timmins in Canada which became a boom town overnight over the recent discovery of large amounts of Copper.
• E31: The Face on the Cover (1964-05-26)
• E32: Lord Beaverbrook (1964-06-09)
• E33: Typhoid in Aberdeen (1964-06-16) — A typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen is traced to a rogue batch of Argentinian corned beef.
• E34: Goldwater for President? or How to Win Friends and Influence People (1964-06-30) — A look at Barry Goldwater's run for President.
• E35: John Bloom (1964-07-21) — The rise and fall of washing machine magnate John Bloom and his Roll's Razor Company.
• E36: U.S. in U.K. (1964-07-28)

Season 3

• E1: The Story of the Sun (1964-09-15) — The launch of The Sun newspaper.
• E2: The Flip Side (1964-09-22) — Various recording agents speak out on the pop music business, and whether the UK singles chart is a fair representation of vinyl sales.
• E3: U.S. Elections (1964-09-29)
• E4: Canada (1964-10-06) — French-Canadian unrest at the Queen's visit.
• E5: Eyes (1964-10-20) — Investigation on how a bacterial infection got into a Birmingham Eye Hospital and caused several cases of blindness.
• E6: How to Loose at the Olympics After Really Trying (1964-10-27) — An investigation into the poor training facilities available to Olympic contenders.
• E7: Vietnam (1964-11-03)
• E8: Air Safety (1964-11-10)
• E9: Smethwick and Racial Tension (1964-11-17)
• E10: State of the Unions: Unions and the Motor Car (1964-12-01) — A comparison of the industrial relations in the car making industries of the UK & the US.
• E11: Sunday Laws (1964-12-08) — An investigation into Britain's age old Sunday trading laws and their effect on shops and similar businesses.
• E12: Labour Party Conference 1964 (1964-12-15)
• E13: Ballroom Dancing (1964-12-22)
• E14: Highlights of 1964 (1964-12-29)
• E15: The English Disease (1965-02-09) — Investigates if there is a link between bronchitis and road pollution.
• E17: Malcolm X (1965-02-23) — Various black Americans give their views on Malcolm X, and an actor recreates some of his speeches.
• E18: The Night Drivers (1965-03-02) — Investigates the transport and haulage industry and the dark practices that can leave drivers tired, open to hijack and dangerous vehicles on our roads.
• E21: The BBC (1965-03-20)
• E24: The Middle East (1965-04-20) — Observations of the tensions growing between Arab and Israeli.
• E25: Seventy Up (1965-04-27) — Companion piece to Seven Up! (1964), this time featuring the elderly looking back rather than the young looking forward. The average age of these women and men is 79.
• E26: Water (1965-06-01) — A look at the water crisis and how the drought will affect the summer.
• E30: The Other World (1965-06-29)
• E31: Dukes (1965-07-06)
• E32: The £.S.D. of MPH (1965-07-13)
• E33: Jerry Builders (1965-07-20)
• E34: The Tory Leadership (1965-07-22)
• E35: Drugs (1965-08-03)

Season 4

• E1: A Girl Called Sharon (1967-07-03) — A look at the Royal Marsden's Hospital work in the treatment of Leukaemia and how Sharon's parents Bill and Annette Norris battle against the limited knowledge and treatments avail
• E2: Some Grains of Truth (1967-07-10) — Investigates how some drugs are smuggled into Britain.
• E3: A Duel in the Sun (1967-07-17)
• E4: Defender of the Faith (1967-07-24)
• E5: Mick Jagger (1967-07-31) — Mick Jagger gives a press conference after his recent conditional discharge for drug use. He then joins a discussion with eminent people on what is expected of famous icons by soci
• E6: The Third World (1967-08-07) — A profile of Stokely Carmichael, a black campaigner against the West's dominance of the world, during his visit to Britain.
• E7: Scientology for Sale (1967-08-14)
• E8: Colonels' Democracy (1967-08-21)
• E9: The Professional Dreamers (1967-08-28)
• E10: Hell No! We Won't Go (1967-09-04)
• E11: The Militants (1967-09-11) — An investigation into the development of the Barbican Complex in London. Strikes and industrial action have stopped work on the building site for nearly a year.
• E12: The Born Losers (1967-09-18) — The plight of families in Britain living below the poverty line.
• E13: The O'Rahilly File (1967-09-25) — After the government successfully suppressed pirate radio stations, a follow-up to a previous episode in 1964 with Radio Caroline's crew and its director Ronan O'Rahilly
• E14: Smith's Back Door (1967-10-02) — Sanction busting in Rhodesia.
• E15: The Breathalyser (1967-10-09) — A report on the drink and driving laws of Sweden and Germany.
• E16: Island Under Arms (1967-10-16)
• E17: We Know What We Saw! (1967-10-20) — Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO sightings in the United States of America are analyzed by experts in various fields.
• E18: King of Kings (1967-10-23) — The Coronation of the Shah of Persia and an interview with Queen Farah.
• E19: Wanted: Kind English Lady (1967-11-06) — A report on the white foster mothering of black children in the UK.
• E20: You Can't Find Uncle Tom (1967-11-13)
• E21: East of Aden (1967-11-20)
• E22: Mothers in Action (1967-12-04) — A group trying change society's attitude to unmarried mothers.
• E23: The End of a Revolution (1967-12-11) — Bolivia after the death of Che Guevara, and at the trial of Regis Dubray.
• E24: India on the Edge (1967-12-18) — A report on violence and chaos in Calcutta as India struggles to get a grip on democracy.
• E25: An Outlaw's Life (1968-01-01) — An observation of Irish Travellers living in Britain.
• E26: The Long Bridge (1968-01-08) — Report about The Allenby Bridge crossing between Israel and Jordan, used by refugees in the previous May
• E27: Alas Poor Hippies, Love is Dead (1968-01-15) — The evolution of American hippies, their scene, drugs, pan-handling and other pastimes.
• E28: Merchants of War (1968-01-22) — Investigates arms dealing and mercenaries on the way to the Nigerian state of Biafra.
• E29: Episode 29 (1968-01-29)
• E30: The Twelve Year Engagement (1968-02-05) — Investigates the recruitment of boy soldiers and why some face difficulty trying to leave later.
• E31: Death by Instalments (1968-02-12) — Examining a proposed parliamentary bill that will enable drug addicts to use free walk in centres to get heroin and cocaine.
• E32: Caught for a Baby (1968-02-19)
• E33: Cold War, Warm Water (1968-02-26)
• E34: No Entry (1968-03-04) — The plight of Asians trying to escape from Kenya and the difficulties some are having, despite having British Passports, in entering the UK under looming new immigration rules.
• E35: Richard Nixon's Last Hurrah (1968-03-11)
• E36: The Demonstration (1968-03-18) — Follows the Anti-Vietnam demonstration in Grosvenor Square London on 16 March.
• E37: Episode 37 (1968-03-25)
• E38: A Group of Terrorists Attacked… (1968-04-01) — The guerrilla fight for independence in Portuguese Guinea.
• E39: Listen, Whitey (1968-04-08) — The mood in some black communities in America after the death of Martin Luther King.
• E40: Horoscope (1968-04-09) — With interest in astrology increasing, predictions from astrologer Ingrid Lind are put to the test.
• E41: Wake Up and Work Together (1968-04-15)
• E42: The Flame in Spain (1968-04-29)
• E43: Below the Belt (1968-04-22) — An observation of the prospects of children born with Spina Bifida, which results in below the waist paralysis.
• E44: The Star Spangled War (1968-05-06) — GI's waiting to invade the Ashau Valley share their thoughts on the Vietnam War.
• E45: Stage for a Revolution (1968-05-13) — The Berlin demonstration of May 1st and the events that led up to it.
• E46: Ward F.13 (1968-05-20) — An investigation into the appalling conditions of the female geriatric ward of Powick Mental Hospital near Worcester.
• E47: Stop That Bowing, Scrapin' and Scratchin' (1968-05-27) — Following the poor peoples' protest and demonstration for better conditions, in Washington DC.
• E48: Robert Kennedy (1968-06-10)
• E49: The Guinea Pigs (1968-06-17) — Grammar School boys are sent to Marlborough College.
• E50: Election of Fear (1968-06-24) — The fall out from the student revolt in Paris France and how it will effect the Grenoble Election.
• E51: Jeremy Thorpe (1968-07-01)

Season 5

• E1: 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.
• E2: Spies for Hire (1968-09-16)
• E3: 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.
• E4: Episode 4 (1968-09-30)
• E5: New Drugs, Same Needle (1968-10-07) — The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.
• E6: A Score to Settle (1968-10-14) — Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.
• E7: Backs to the Wall (1968-10-21) — A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.
• E8: Special: Vietnam (1968-10-27)
• E9: A City Stumbles (1968-11-04) — A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.
• E10: Nasser's Fortified Ditch (1968-11-11)
• E11: An Outbreak of Peace? (1968-11-18) — With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.
• E12: 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.
• E13: 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.
• E14: 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.
• E15: 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.
• E16: 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
• E17: The Making of a Prime Minister (1969-01-06)
• E18: Next Year in Peking (1969-01-13)
• E19: All Change at Newry! (1969-01-20)
• E20: A New School of Thought (1969-01-27)
• E21: Death of a Student (1969-02-03) — The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.
• E22: Like Other Men (1969-02-10) — Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.
• E23: Living in the Red (1969-02-17)
• E24: A War on Ice (1969-02-24)
• E25: Home for a Revolution (1969-03-03)
• E26: 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.
• E27: A Case to Answer (1969-03-17) — Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.
• E28: The Men Left Behind (1969-03-24)
• E29: The Six Day War – Day 666 (1969-03-31)
• E30: 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.
• E31: 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.
• E32: A modest proposal (1969-05-05)
• E33: Two Men in Two Tin Huts (1969-05-12) — Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.
• E34: The Leftovers (1969-05-19) — Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.

Season 6

• E1: Untried, Inside (1969-09-08)
• E2: No Surrender (1969-09-15) — Portrait of the Protestant working class and the vigilantes in Northern Ireland at the height of the Ulster riots in 1969.
• E3: Crack of the Whip (1969-09-22) — Portrait of the Catholic working class and the riots in Ulster, when the barricades were going up in the streets of Derry.
• E4: Castro (1969-09-29) — Following Fidel Castro as he governs the country of Cuba from Jeeps and tents, spending many hours integrating himself with the ordinary people.
• E5: The Secret Life of Sam the Plumber (1969-10-06)
• E6: Put to the Test (1969-10-13) — An observation of the Southwark mobile screening unit for detecting breast and other cancers.
• E7: State of the Lion (1969-10-20)
• E8: Unknown Soldier (1969-10-27)
• E9: The Life and Death of James Griffiths (1969-11-03) — Reconstruction of Glasgow gunman James Griffiths running amok and the final shoot out with the police.
• E10: Ken Petty, Alas No Longer with Us (1969-11-10) — Looks at the alternative life styles of young people who have dropped out of society.
• E11: Five Days in Washington (1969-11-17)
• E12: A Welcome in the Hillsides (1969-11-24)
• E13: The Breadline (1969-12-01) — Lower income workers discuss how they manage to cope on poor wages, amongst politicians and trade union leaders.
• E14: Where Crime Is a Habit (1969-12-08) — A look at the work of the New York Police Dept. and the vigilantes groups that have come about to also tackle crime.
• E15: Wednesday's Children (1969-12-15) — A report on Muscular Dystrophy and examines what is available and what can be done for those suffering.
• E16: Nancekuke Dossier (1969-12-22) — Investigates why the UK is still manufacturing nerve gas.
• E17: Last Week in Biafra (1969-12-29) — Christmas 1969 and a reminder of the last terrible year in Biafra which was blighted by war and the consequent famine and starvation.
• E18: Frontline Africa (1970-01-05) — The guerrilla fight for independence of the people of Portuguese Guinea.
• E19: The 22 Year Itch (1970-01-12)
• E20: Cold Comfort (1970-01-19) — An investigation into the elderly dying from cold in Winter and the effects of hypothermia which can show no obvious symptoms.
• E21: A Bit Apprehensive (1970-01-26)
• E22: One Down,100,000 to Go (1970-02-02)
• E23: Your Services No Longer Required (1970-02-09)
• E24: Conspiracy (1970-02-16)
• E25: St. Mungo's People (1970-02-23)
• E26: Shalom (1970-03-02)
• E27: Trouble Down the East End (1970-03-09)
• E28: A Case for Benign Neglect? (1970-03-16)
• E29: The State of Denmark (1970-03-23) — On the abolishment of censorship in Denmark, infamous morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse goes on an inspection of the state.
• E30: Seymour (1970-04-06) — Follows Seymour as he reconnects with life after being released from prison.
• E31: Black Mood (1970-04-13)
• E32: Ian Paisley (1970-04-20)
• E33: Are You Alright Jackie? (1970-04-27) — A look at the lives of two schoolgirls, both named Jackie, and their juxtaposition with two representatives from the Women's Liberation Front.
• E34: This House Would Disrupt the SA Cricket Tour (1970-05-04)
• E35: America Talking (1970-05-11)
• E36: Quentin Crisp (1970-07-06) — World In Action interview filmed in Quentin's room in a London boarding house.
• E37: Vic Feather (1970-07-13)
• E38: Act of God (1970-07-20)

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does World in Action have? 35 season(s) with 1294 episodes.

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