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 16)
Mr. Benn's Secret Service (Episode 1)
Air date: 1980-01-07
Overview: Mr Benn questions the role of the Civil Service and whether it is becoming too powerful and unanswerable for the country's good?
Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis (Episode 2)
Air date: 1980-01-14
Cambodia Year One - Life After Death (Episode 3)
Air date: 1980-01-21
The Man Who Bought United (Episode 4)
Air date: 1980-01-28
The Steel Papers (Episode 5)
Air date: 1980-02-04
Behind the Paper Curtain (Episode 6)
Air date: 1980-02-11
The Pulse of America (Episode 7)
Air date: 1980-02-18
The Final Harvest (Episode 8)
Air date: 1980-02-25
Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy (Episode 9)
Air date: 1980-03-03
Overview: Case studies of people on both sides of the current crackdown on social security fraud.
Follow the Yellow Cake Road (Episode 10)
Air date: 1980-03-10
Decline and Fall (Episode 11)
Air date: 1980-03-17
Alive and Well in the U.S.A. (Episode 12)
Air date: 1980-03-24
Not in the Public Interest (Episode 13)
Air date: 1980-04-14
Spying for Survival (Episode 14)
Air date: 1980-04-21
The Pound in Their Pocket (Episode 15)
Air date: 1980-04-28
The Trial of Stanley Adams (Episode 16)
Air date: 1980-05-12
Britain Over a Barrel (Episode 17)
Air date: 1980-05-19
A Bad Day for Southall (Episode 18)
Air date: 1980-06-02
Mr. Kane's Campaign (Episode 19)
Air date: 1980-06-09
Special: What Do You Think of It So Far? (Episode 20)
Air date: 1980-06-10
Overview: A review of Britain's membership of the Common Market.
Market Day (Episode 21)
Air date: 1980-06-16
Fly the Flag, Pay the Price (Episode 22)
Air date: 1980-06-23
Russian Games (Episode 23)
Air date: 1980-06-30
Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang (Episode 24)
Air date: 1980-07-07
Last Stand at Lisburn (Episode 25)
Air date: 1980-07-14
Overview: 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.
Vietnam - Prisoner of War (Episode 26)
Air date: 1980-07-14
A Dignified Exit (Episode 27)
Air date: 1980-07-28
Overview: "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.
The Tirion Programme (Episode 28)
Air date: 1980-08-04
Suffer the Children (Episode 29)
Air date: 1980-08-11
The Chart Busters (Episode 30)
Air date: 1980-08-18
Overview: 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.
