About this season
World in Action was Granada Televisionâs 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 repercussionsâincluding investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Sixâand it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of âSeven Up!â as part of the strand in 1964.
Episodes (39)
1. Unemployment - Who Cares?
Aired 27 September 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. Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma
Aired 4 October 1976
3. A School of Thought
Aired 11 October 1976
Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.
4. Mr Cork Examines the Books
Aired 18 October 1976
An ordinary accountant is given the theoretical task of being Chancellor of the Exchequer and giving his take on the situation.
5. Campaigning by Numbers
Aired 25 October 1976
6. Yesterday's Truants
Aired 1 November 1976
Follow up programme to one five years previous to find out what happened to some persistent school truants.
7. Living Dangerously
Aired 8 November 1976
The effects of the chemical Dioxin after a factory explosion in Italy.
8. The Killing of Uganda
Aired 15 November 1976
9. The National Party
Aired 22 November 1976
Following the racial violence in Blackburn, looks at the rise of the extreme right wing.
10. The Long Arm of the Dina
Aired 29 November 1976
11. The Lawbreakers
Aired 6 December 1976
12. Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour
Aired 13 December 1976
13. Mr Opie Brings Bad News
Aired 10 January 1977
14. Doctor's Orders
Aired 17 January 1977
Doctors complain that they are being put under pressure by both patients and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe certain drugs.
15. Episode 15
Aired 24 January 1977
16. The Militants
Aired 31 January 1977
Investigates why the Labour Party is allowing a group within to produce a newspaper like 'The Militant'.
17. Waiting for Merlyn
Aired 7 February 1977 âą 30 min
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. The Road to Amsterdam
Aired 14 February 1977
19. The Police Tapes
Aired 21 February 1977
21. Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow
Aired 28 February 1977
22. Do You Take This Man?
Aired 7 March 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.
23. From Death Row-To Downing St
Aired 14 March 1977
24. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us
Aired 21 March 1977
25. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 1
Aired 28 March 1977
26. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 2
Aired 4 April 1977
27. The Plane Makers
Aired 18 April 1977
28. The Prison Children
Aired 25 April 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?
29. All Work and Low Pay
Aired 2 May 1977
30. What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know
Aired 16 May 1977
31. The Man Who Went Too Far
Aired 23 May 1977
Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.
32. Casualties of the Cuts
Aired 30 May 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.
33. Without Limit of Time
Aired 13 June 1977
34. My Years with Amin
Aired 20 June 1977
35. Starting on the Dole
Aired 27 June 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.
36. The Very Public Death of Enrico Sidoli
Aired 4 July 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.
37. Jack's Last Stand
Aired 11 July 1977
38. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 1
Aired 18 July 1977
39. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 2
Aired 25 July 1977
40. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 3
Aired 1 August 1977