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