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World in Action

World in Action - Season 7 (1970)

Audience Score
70

Season 7 Episodes

1. Everybody's Children

September 21st, 1970

School children at school are doing a play on freedom and the Vietnam war also playing a general

2. The Quiet Mutiny

September 28th, 197028 min

Embedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.

3. The Man Who Made Biafra

October 5th, 1970

4. Pigs?

October 12th, 1970

Members of the Cincinnati Police Force discuss the increasing animosity being dealt out by the public towards policemen.

5. They're Only Human Beings Like Everybody Else

October 19th, 1970

There are about 1,500,000 severely physically handicapped people in the United Kingdom. There are, therefore, 1,500,000 handicapped families. This means there are 6,750,000 people directly involved with the problems of the disabled.

6. A Business Arrangement

October 26th, 1970

7. S.A.L.T.

November 2nd, 1970

8. Goodbye Mr. Smith?

November 9th, 1970

9. The Mountain People

November 16th, 1970

America's poor whites of the Appalachia region, who fear there maybe violence against them in the future.

10. The Final Harvest

November 23rd, 1970

11. The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet

November 24th, 1970

12. The Schemes of Jerome D. Hoffman

November 30th, 1970

Follows the trail of New York financier Hoffman, who's empire had just crashed leaving investors in the UK out of pocket.

13. The Law Shop

December 7th, 1970

14. Oh! Birmingham

December 14th, 1970

15. The Dumping Grounds

December 21st, 1970

The problems of malnutrition leading to mental and physical problems among the children of resettled black South African families.

16. American Radio

January 4th, 1971

A personal view by Denis Mitchell.

17. Round One

January 11th, 1971

18. The Dutschke Affair

January 18th, 1971

19. The Village That Quit

January 25th, 1971

A village is asked to give up smoking for a week and the results monitored.

20. The Monday Club

February 1st, 1971

21. The Breaking Point

February 8th, 1971

22. Square One

February 15th, 1971

With renewed fighting through Ulster, has the conflict gone back to square one?

23. Lucky

February 22nd, 1971

Follows the life of an 18 year old from Devon who arrives in London penniless and has to sleep rough, but eventually with help manages to find a job and somewhere to live.

24. Ford: The Inside Story

March 1st, 1971

25. The Truants

March 8th, 1971

World In Action talks to three teenage truants about what they get up to when they "wag off" school.

26. The Man Who Stole Uganda

March 15th, 1971

A military coup has taken place in Uganda, but what is the real story behind the rumours?

27. As It Was in the Beginning...

March 22nd, 1971

Uses footage from previous editions of World in Action to present a history of the troubles so far.

28. The Year Britain Stopped Growing

March 29th, 1971

Investigates the claim that lack of investment in the UK will seriously affect its competitiveness with mainland Europe.

29. South of the Border

April 5th, 1971

Attitudes in Eire to the IRA and the situation in Ulster.

30. The Salvation Army

April 19th, 1971

31. The Sailors' Jail

April 26th, 1971

32. Going Private

May 3rd, 1971

Investigates the controversy surrounding private patients and their consultants and whether they are exploiting the NHS.

33. The Tanzam Railway

May 10th, 1971

34. A 2.9% Swing to Democracy in Bradford

May 17th, 1971

35. Death Is Afraid of Us

May 24th, 1971

Some people in the country of Georgia claim to be over a 100 years old and still working like people half their age.

36. Conversations with a Working Man

June 7th, 1971

Following one working class man through the struggles of his average day, to show how the forgotten majority are living in Britain.

37. Anthony Mascarenhas

June 14th, 1971

38. A Woman's Place

June 21st, 1971

39. The Dust at Acre Mill

June 28th, 1971

40. Episode 40

July 5th, 1971

41. Major Khaled's War

July 12th, 1971

42. End of a Journey

July 19th, 1971

43. The Man from No. 10

August 3rd, 1971

All Seasons

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Oct 13, 1980
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Jan 7, 1980
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Sep 26, 1977
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Sep 11, 1972
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Sep 6, 1971
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Sep 21, 1970
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