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