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 7)
Everybody's Children (Episode 1)
Air date: 1970-09-21
Overview: School children at school are doing a play on freedom and the Vietnam war also playing a general
The Quiet Mutiny (Episode 2)
Air date: 1970-09-28
Runtime: 28 min
Overview: Embedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.
The Man Who Made Biafra (Episode 3)
Air date: 1970-10-05
Pigs? (Episode 4)
Air date: 1970-10-12
Overview: Members of the Cincinnati Police Force discuss the increasing animosity being dealt out by the public towards policemen.
They're Only Human Beings Like Everybody Else (Episode 5)
Air date: 1970-10-19
Overview: 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.
A Business Arrangement (Episode 6)
Air date: 1970-10-26
S.A.L.T. (Episode 7)
Air date: 1970-11-02
Goodbye Mr. Smith? (Episode 8)
Air date: 1970-11-09
The Mountain People (Episode 9)
Air date: 1970-11-16
Overview: America's poor whites of the Appalachia region, who fear there maybe violence against them in the future.
The Final Harvest (Episode 10)
Air date: 1970-11-23
The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet (Episode 11)
Air date: 1970-11-24
The Schemes of Jerome D. Hoffman (Episode 12)
Air date: 1970-11-30
Overview: Follows the trail of New York financier Hoffman, who's empire had just crashed leaving investors in the UK out of pocket.
The Law Shop (Episode 13)
Air date: 1970-12-07
Oh! Birmingham (Episode 14)
Air date: 1970-12-14
The Dumping Grounds (Episode 15)
Writer: John Sheppard
Air date: 1970-12-21
Overview: The problems of malnutrition leading to mental and physical problems among the children of resettled black South African families.
American Radio (Episode 16)
Air date: 1971-01-04
Overview: A personal view by Denis Mitchell.
Round One (Episode 17)
Air date: 1971-01-11
The Dutschke Affair (Episode 18)
Air date: 1971-01-18
The Village That Quit (Episode 19)
Air date: 1971-01-25
Overview: A village is asked to give up smoking for a week and the results monitored.
The Monday Club (Episode 20)
Air date: 1971-02-01
The Breaking Point (Episode 21)
Air date: 1971-02-08
Square One (Episode 22)
Air date: 1971-02-15
Overview: With renewed fighting through Ulster, has the conflict gone back to square one?
Lucky (Episode 23)
Air date: 1971-02-22
Overview: 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.
Ford: The Inside Story (Episode 24)
Air date: 1971-03-01
The Truants (Episode 25)
Air date: 1971-03-08
Overview: World In Action talks to three teenage truants about what they get up to when they "wag off" school.
The Man Who Stole Uganda (Episode 26)
Air date: 1971-03-15
Overview: A military coup has taken place in Uganda, but what is the real story behind the rumours?
As It Was in the Beginning... (Episode 27)
Air date: 1971-03-22
Overview: Uses footage from previous editions of World in Action to present a history of the troubles so far.
The Year Britain Stopped Growing (Episode 28)
Air date: 1971-03-29
Overview: Investigates the claim that lack of investment in the UK will seriously affect its competitiveness with mainland Europe.
South of the Border (Episode 29)
Air date: 1971-04-05
Overview: Attitudes in Eire to the IRA and the situation in Ulster.
The Salvation Army (Episode 30)
Air date: 1971-04-19
The Sailors' Jail (Episode 31)
Air date: 1971-04-26
Going Private (Episode 32)
Air date: 1971-05-03
Overview: Investigates the controversy surrounding private patients and their consultants and whether they are exploiting the NHS.
The Tanzam Railway (Episode 33)
Air date: 1971-05-10
A 2.9% Swing to Democracy in Bradford (Episode 34)
Air date: 1971-05-17
Death Is Afraid of Us (Episode 35)
Air date: 1971-05-24
Overview: Some people in the country of Georgia claim to be over a 100 years old and still working like people half their age.
Conversations with a Working Man (Episode 36)
Air date: 1971-06-07
Overview: Following one working class man through the struggles of his average day, to show how the forgotten majority are living in Britain.
Anthony Mascarenhas (Episode 37)
Air date: 1971-06-14
A Woman's Place (Episode 38)
Air date: 1971-06-21
The Dust at Acre Mill (Episode 39)
Air date: 1971-06-28
Episode 40 (Episode 40)
Air date: 1971-07-05
Major Khaled's War (Episode 41)
Air date: 1971-07-12
End of a Journey (Episode 42)
Air date: 1971-07-19
The Man from No. 10 (Episode 43)
Air date: 1971-08-03
