First Tuesday (1983) is a documentary web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch First Tuesday online in HD.
First Tuesday — Storyline
First Tuesday or This World is a monthly television documentary strand, shown in the United Kingdom on the ITV network and was produced by Yorkshire Television. The subject matter was mainly social issues and current affairs stories from around the world. It ran from 5 April 1983 to 2 November 1993, with programme being shown on the first Tuesday of the month, hence the title. In 1993, Network First was a part replacement for First Tuesday.
Cast & Crew
- Starring: Olivia O'Leary
First Tuesday — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1983-04-05 |
| Seasons | 11 |
| Episodes | 128 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Language | English |
| Network | ITV1 |
| Status | Ended |
First Tuesday — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: The Chinese Geordie/A Message from the Falklands/Hostages of War (1983-04-05)
- E2: Desperate Choice/Rupert Goes to Town/Voices from Moscow (1983-05-13)
- E3: Episode 3 (1983-06-07)
- E4: Third Avenue/The View From the Roof of Lancashire/From Peking to Poplar (1983-07-05)
- E5: A Lottery for Life/Third Avenue (1983-08-02)
- E6: The Shadow Boxer/The Real Maria (1983-09-06)
- E7: Life in San Quentin/The Hunters of Cadgwith Cove (1983-10-04)
- E8: Windscale: The Nuclear Laundry (1983-11-01)
- E9: Women Miners/Sunday Mornings and Saturday Nights (1983-12-06)
- E10: The Summer Holiday/Goodbye Joey (1984-01-03)
- E11: The Town that Builds the Bomb/Survivors of the Kwai/Heavy Metal (1984-02-07)
- E12: Families Who Wait/Aunt Annie's Bomb Factory (1984-03-06) — Families Who Wait – Documentary which looks at the legal battles of two families to be reunited after the children have been taken into care. Aunt Annie's Bomb Factory – Documenta
Season 2
- E1: Down and Out in Calke Abbey/Warship Usa/Return to Windscale (1984-04-03)
- E2: The Promised Land/Kim Phuc (1984-05-01)
- E3: A Place for Stephen/A Safe House (1984-06-05) — A Place for Stephen – Documentary about seventeen year old Stephen Brown, born with sight loss and profoundly deaf after his mother contracted German measles during her pregnancy.
- E4: The Miners' Strike (1984-07-03)
- E5: Blind Faith/Something to Write Home About/Where Did You Get That Woman? (1984-08-07)
- E6: The Bard of Stepney (1984-09-04)
- E7: Autumn Leaves/The Video Prophet (1984-10-02)
- E8: Return to Nagasaki (1984-11-06)
- E9: Jim Crow's Army/Who Killed Nora Mccabe? (1984-12-04)
- E10: The Last Voyage of the Artic Raider/The Longwood Thump (1985-01-01)
- E11: The Unofficial Famine (1985-02-05)
- E12: Many Rivers to Cross/Jamaican Exile (1985-03-05)
Season 3
- E1: Insult to Injury/Lebanon: A Family at War (1985-04-02) — Two stories of racial tension. The first, a highly personal one for Martin Short as he reports on the dangers faced by his wife's family in war-torn Lebanon. The second closer to h
- E2: Yanks Meet Reds (1985-05-07)
- E3: Goals Not Dole/The End of the Line? (1985-06-04) — Goals Not Dole – Documentary which explores the experience of unemployment through the views of members of a South Yorkshire village football team and their families. The End of t
- E4: Our First Year/Visiting Day (1985-07-02) — Two documentaries about women's pilgrimages: the German wartime ones who came to Southport to avoid Nazis, and the present day ones who prepare and undertake prison visits to their
- E5: Made in Huddersfield/A Death in the Family (1985-08-06)
- E6: Invitation to Disaster/Comrades at Arms (1985-09-03)
- E7: An Officer and a Lady (1985-10-01)
- E8: 'Trevor, It's the Bailiffs'/Akong and the Big Shrine Room (1985-11-05) — "Trevor, It's the Bailiffs" – Documentary which looks at the work of Jim Ellis and Terry Allen who are bailiffs in Nottingham repossessing furniture. Akong and the Big Shrine Room
- E9: Inside Britain's Bomb (1985-12-03)
- E10: In the Line of Duty/The Valley (1986-01-07)
- E11: Sugar Ditch Alley (1986-02-04)
- E12: Len Harding: Born a Number/Kent Coal: Staying on Top (1986-03-04) — Len Harding: Born a Number – Documentary which follows up on the story of Rampton patient Len Harding, and looks at his life since his release from the secure hospital at Rampton.
Season 4
- E1: Children Who Wait/The Seveso Inheritance (1986-04-01) — Children Who Wait – Documentary which looks at the story of two children who have liver transplants in a Cambridge hospital – Jonathan O'Rourke and Reut Haddad, both nearly two yea
- E2: Fall Out from Chernobyl (1986-05-06)
- E3: The Futures Game (1986-06-03)
- E4: The Guildford Time Bomb (1986-07-01)
- E5: Twilight in Belize/Good Vibrations (1986-08-05) — Twilight in Belize – Documentary in which the lives of two sisters in the 70s are traced. Joan Shaw stayed in England and lives in Scunthorpe surrounded by her family. Her sister D
- E6: Come on in the Waters Fine/Kicked Into Touch (1986-09-02)
- E7: When Did You Last See My Father? (1986-10-07)
- E8: Death Row: A One Woman Band/Children Who Wait (1986-11-04)
- E9: Abandoned Babies/Your Champagne, Sir (1986-12-02)
- E10: New York: The Quiet Catastrophe/Dancing on Her Grave (1987-01-06)
- E11: Family on the Run/Surf's Up at Port Talbot! (1987-02-03) — Family on the Run – Documentary about the case of David and Linda Arthur, who have left Britain to protect their child from being taken into care, after their daughter was not retu
- E12: A Case That Won't Go Away/Gone Dancing (1987-03-03)
Season 6
- E1: Cambodia: Children of the Killing Fields (1988-04-05)
- E2: The Swap (1988-05-03) — Two working class families swap places in a social experiment to see whether, under Thatcher's Britain, the North-South divide is actually more stark than the class divide.
- E3: A Quiet Scream/Sato: A Child Apart (1988-06-07)
- E4: Bridge Across the Foyle/Albania: The Last Outpost (1988-07-05)
- E5: Children of the Third Reich/Last Exit: Berlin (1988-08-02) — Children of the Third Reich – More than 40 years after the end of World War II, the children of Nazi soldiers are still coming to terms with the awful truth. Last Exit Berlin – Do
- E6: The Bofors Affair (1988-09-06)
- E7: Afghantsi (1988-10-04) — Documentary about the Afghantsi who are the military veterans of "Russia's Vietnam", the Afghan war. The film follows the Red Army from the start of the withdrawal in May 1988. It
- E8: The Apostle and the Prophet/School Is Out (1988-11-01)
- E9: Too Close to Home (1988-12-06) — Documentary about the people who have died of asbestos cancer because they worked in or just lived near asbestos factories or buildings containing asbestos.
- E10: Murder in Ostankino Precinct (1989-01-03) — Documentary which follows a murder investigation in Moscow from the discovery of the body to the arrest and interrogation of the final suspect.
- E11: Pedigree Chums/The Wigan Hold (1989-02-07)
- E12: A Heartbeat Away/Woman v. Bull (1989-03-07)
Season 7
- E1: The Buggist (1989-04-04) — A glimpse into the life of MI5 'cut-out' David Coghlan, a free-lance agent whose work for that organization was in the secret, shadowy world of covert surveillance and telephone ta
- E2: Four Hours in My Lai (1989-05-02) — "Four Hours in My Lai" is a documentary film made by Yorkshire Television in England concerning an infamous massacres of Vietnamese civilians in Tu Cung sub-hamlet, better known to
- E3: Sister Martin's Profession/Last Chance on Death Row (1989-06-06)
- E4: Shakespeare – Midsummer Nights Mystery (1989-07-04)
- E5: For Queen and Country (1989-08-01)
- E6: The Hunting Ground (1989-09-05)
- E7: A Well-Founded Fear/Hearts of Oak (1989-10-03) — A Well-Founded Fear – Documentary about Tamil refugees seeking asylum in Britain. Hearts of Oak – Documentary about the friendship between Herbert Herrmann and Taff Davies, who we
- E8: Guildford Four: Free to Speak (1989-11-07)
- E9: Uncle Sam's Refuseniks (1989-12-05)
- E10: South Africa's Death Factory (1990-01-02)
- E11: Disaster at Hillsborough (1990-02-06)
- E12: Firefighter (1990-03-06)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does First Tuesday have? 11 season(s) with 128 episodes.
Where can I watch First Tuesday? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
