Season 5

episodes

E1
1.Give Us the Works
Sep 10, 1968

An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.

E2
2.Spies for Hire
Sep 16, 1968
E3
3.February's Children
Sep 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.

E4
4.Episode 4
Sep 30, 1968
E5
5.New Drugs, Same Needle
Oct 7, 1968

The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.

E6
6.A Score to Settle
Oct 14, 1968

Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.

E7
7.Backs to the Wall
Oct 21, 1968

A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.

E8
8.Special: Vietnam
Oct 27, 1968
E9
9.A City Stumbles
Nov 4, 1968

A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.

E10
10.Nasser's Fortified Ditch
Nov 11, 1968
E11
11.An Outbreak of Peace?
Nov 18, 1968

With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.

E12
12.A Buyer's Market
Nov 25, 1968

The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.

E13
13.The Trail of the Vanishing Voters
Dec 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.

E14
14.The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom
Dec 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.

E15
15.First Class Delivery
Dec 23, 1968

The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.

E16
16.Sorry, Nothing Doing
Dec 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).

E17
17.The Making of a Prime Minister
Jan 6, 1969
E18
18.Next Year in Peking
Jan 13, 1969
E19
19.All Change at Newry!
Jan 20, 1969
E20
20.A New School of Thought
Jan 27, 1969
E21
21.Death of a Student
Feb 3, 1969

The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.

E22
22.Like Other Men
Feb 10, 1969

Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.

E23
23.Living in the Red
Feb 17, 1969
E24
24.A War on Ice
Feb 24, 1969
E25
25.Home for a Revolution
Mar 3, 1969
E26
26.Where People Don't Matter
Mar 10, 1969

The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.

E27
27.A Case to Answer
Mar 17, 1969

Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

E28
28.The Men Left Behind
Mar 24, 1969
E29
29.The Six Day War - Day 666
Mar 31, 1969
E30
30.The Owners and the Owned
Apr 14, 1969

Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.

E31
31.Inside Out
Apr 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.

E32
32.A modest proposal
May 5, 1969
E33
33.Two Men in Two Tin Huts
May 12, 1969

Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.

E34
34.The Leftovers
May 19, 1969

Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.