World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.
World in Action (Season 13)
Unemployment - Who Cares? (Episode 1)
Air date: 1976-09-27
Overview: Unemployment has now risen to the notable 1 million mark and this investigation shows the detrimental effect it can have on those people who loose their job.
Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma (Episode 2)
Air date: 1976-10-04
A School of Thought (Episode 3)
Air date: 1976-10-11
Overview: Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.
Mr Cork Examines the Books (Episode 4)
Air date: 1976-10-18
Overview: An ordinary accountant is given the theoretical task of being Chancellor of the Exchequer and giving his take on the situation.
Campaigning by Numbers (Episode 5)
Air date: 1976-10-25
Yesterday's Truants (Episode 6)
Air date: 1976-11-01
Overview: Follow up programme to one five years previous to find out what happened to some persistent school truants.
Living Dangerously (Episode 7)
Air date: 1976-11-08
Overview: The effects of the chemical Dioxin after a factory explosion in Italy.
The Killing of Uganda (Episode 8)
Air date: 1976-11-15
The National Party (Episode 9)
Air date: 1976-11-22
Overview: Following the racial violence in Blackburn, looks at the rise of the extreme right wing.
The Long Arm of the Dina (Episode 10)
Air date: 1976-11-29
The Lawbreakers (Episode 11)
Air date: 1976-12-06
Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour (Episode 12)
Air date: 1976-12-13
Mr Opie Brings Bad News (Episode 13)
Air date: 1977-01-10
Doctor's Orders (Episode 14)
Air date: 1977-01-17
Overview: Doctors complain that they are being put under pressure by both patients and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe certain drugs.
Episode 15 (Episode 15)
Air date: 1977-01-24
The Militants (Episode 16)
Air date: 1977-01-31
Overview: Investigates why the Labour Party is allowing a group within to produce a newspaper like 'The Militant'.
Waiting for Merlyn (Episode 17)
Air date: 1977-02-07
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: An investigation into the Home Secretary's decision to declare two men as a threat to British Security and his moves to have them deported
The Road to Amsterdam (Episode 18)
Air date: 1977-02-14
The Police Tapes (Episode 19)
Air date: 1977-02-21
Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow (Episode 20)
Air date: 1977-02-28
Do You Take This Man? (Episode 21)
Air date: 1977-03-07
Overview: A report on the growing number of Asian girls in the UK who are rejecting the traditional arranged marriage to someone they do not know.
From Death Row-To Downing St (Episode 22)
Air date: 1977-03-14
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us (Episode 23)
Air date: 1977-03-21
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 1 (Episode 24)
Air date: 1977-03-28
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 2 (Episode 25)
Air date: 1977-04-04
The Plane Makers (Episode 26)
Air date: 1977-04-18
The Prison Children (Episode 27)
Air date: 1977-04-25
Overview: It is against the law in the UK to put children into prison, so how did 4000 under 17-year-olds come to spend time behind bars?
All Work and Low Pay (Episode 28)
Air date: 1977-05-02
What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know (Episode 29)
Air date: 1977-05-16
The Man Who Went Too Far (Episode 30)
Air date: 1977-05-23
Overview: Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.
Casualties of the Cuts (Episode 31)
Air date: 1977-05-30
Overview: Looking at two hospitals that may have to close down, and another who's budget is not coping with the demand of an increasing population.
Without Limit of Time (Episode 32)
Air date: 1977-06-13
My Years with Amin (Episode 33)
Air date: 1977-06-20
Starting on the Dole (Episode 34)
Air date: 1977-06-27
Overview: With the continuing rise in youth unemployment, follows two Liverpool teenagers as they look for work and examines the validity of government job creation schemes.
The Very Public Death of Enrico Sidoli (Episode 35)
Air date: 1977-07-04
Overview: In July of the previous year Enrico was beaten up in a London swimming pool by three youths and held under water, he died days later of injuries. Apart from one girl, nobody there appears to have noticed anything.
Jack's Last Stand (Episode 36)
Air date: 1977-07-11
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 1 (Episode 37)
Air date: 1977-07-18
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 2 (Episode 38)
Air date: 1977-07-25
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 3 (Episode 39)
Air date: 1977-08-01
