About this season
Long-running Channel 4 documentary series covering issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment. Known for featuring a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.
Episodes (39)
1. Return to Year Zero?
Aired 4 January 1989 • 45 min
Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.
2. Gorbachev's Asylums
Aired 11 January 1989 • 45 min
Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".
3. Cooking the Books
Aired 18 January 1989 • 45 min
Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.
4. The Spy Who Broke the Code
Aired 25 January 1989 • 45 min
Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.
5. Buckets of Money
Aired 1 February 1989 • 45 min
Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.
6. The Copper Seven Story
Aired 8 February 1989 • 45 min
Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.
7. Afghan
Aired 15 February 1989 • 45 min
A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.
8. The Toxic Trail
Aired 22 February 1989 • 45 min
Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.
9. The Case of 'F'
Aired 1 March 1989 • 45 min
10. The Return of the Death Squads
Aired 8 March 1989 • 45 min
11. Burma - Dying for Democracy
Aired 15 March 1989 • 45 min
12. Voices From Long Larten
Aired 22 March 1989 • 45 min
13. Young, Homeless and Broke
Aired 29 March 1989 • 45 min
14. Chico
Aired 5 April 1989 • 45 min
A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
15. Carry on Flying
Aired 12 April 1989 • 45 min
16. The Most Neglected Crime
Aired 19 April 1989 • 45 min
Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.
17. Dispatches (26/04/1989)
Aired 26 April 1989 • 45 min
18. A Suitable Case for Treatment
Aired 3 May 1989 • 45 min
19. The Sins of the Fathers
Aired 10 May 1989 • 45 min
20. Not What the Doctor Ordered
Aired 17 May 1989 • 45 min
Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health
21. Warlord of Kayan
Aired 24 May 1989 • 45 min
22. The Ultimate Blasphemy
Aired 31 May 1989 • 45 min
23. Fit as a Fiddle
Aired 7 June 1989 • 45 min
24. Empire of the Sun
Aired 14 June 1989 • 45 min
25. Year of the Locust
Aired 21 June 1989 • 45 min
26. A State of Decay
Aired 28 June 1989 • 45 min
27. Terror Island
Aired 5 July 1989 • 45 min
28. The Spanish Connection
Aired 4 October 1989 • 45 min
29. The Day of the Technopath
Aired 11 October 1989 • 45 min
30. No, Prime Minister
Aired 18 October 1989 • 45 min
31. The Undoing of Edwina
Aired 25 October 1989 • 45 min
32. Mission Impossible
Aired 1 November 1989 • 45 min
33. In the Coal Hole
Aired 8 November 1989 • 45 min
34. The False Confession File
Aired 15 November 1989 • 45 min
35. Hungarians Not Comrades
Aired 22 November 1989 • 45 min
Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.
36. Twelve Days in November
Aired 29 November 1989 • 45 min
Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.
37. Licence to Kill
Aired 6 December 1989 • 45 min
38. Privatising Poland
Aired 13 December 1989 • 45 min
39. Road to Damascus
Aired 20 December 1989 • 45 min