Highlights
World in Action

World in Action - Season 16 (1980)

Audience Score
70

Season 16 Episodes

1. Mr. Benn's Secret Service

January 7th, 1980

Mr Benn questions the role of the Civil Service and whether it is becoming too powerful and unanswerable for the country's good?

2. Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis

January 14th, 1980

3. Cambodia Year One - Life After Death

January 21st, 1980

4. The Man Who Bought United

January 28th, 1980

5. The Steel Papers

February 4th, 1980

6. Behind the Paper Curtain

February 11th, 1980

7. The Pulse of America

February 18th, 1980

8. The Final Harvest

February 25th, 1980

9. Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy

March 3rd, 1980

Case studies of people on both sides of the current crackdown on social security fraud.

10. Follow the Yellow Cake Road

March 10th, 1980

11. Decline and Fall

March 17th, 1980

12. Alive and Well in the U.S.A.

March 24th, 1980

13. Not in the Public Interest

April 14th, 1980

14. Spying for Survival

April 21st, 1980

15. The Pound in Their Pocket

April 28th, 1980

16. The Trial of Stanley Adams

May 12th, 1980

17. Britain Over a Barrel

May 19th, 1980

18. A Bad Day for Southall

June 2nd, 1980

19. Mr. Kane's Campaign

June 9th, 1980

20. Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?

June 10th, 1980

A review of Britain's membership of the Common Market.

21. Market Day

June 16th, 1980

22. Fly the Flag, Pay the Price

June 23rd, 1980

23. Russian Games

June 30th, 1980

24. Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang

July 7th, 1980

25. Last Stand at Lisburn

July 14th, 1980

With communities across Northern Ireland, from the end of the 1960s Lisburn suffered through three decades of political violence, "The Troubles". For Lisburn the first killings came in 1976: in the course of the year, five Catholic residents died as a result of gun and bomb attacks by the Ulster Defence Association and the new Ulster Volunteer Force, loyalist paramilitary groups that subsequently entered their own feud.

26. Vietnam - Prisoner of War

July 14th, 1980

27. A Dignified Exit

July 28th, 1980

"EXIT" - the society for the right to die with dignity, are publishing a controversial suicide guide for terminally ill people who require a dignified death.

28. The Tirion Programme

August 4th, 1980

29. Suffer the Children

August 11th, 1980

30. The Chart Busters

August 18th, 1980

Investigating allegations that the pop music charts are controlled not by consumers, but by manipulative tactics of the big record companies, thus not being a true reflection of popularity at all.

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