Dispatches (Season 3)

Return to Year Zero? (Episode 1)

Air date: 1989-01-04

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.

Gorbachev's Asylums (Episode 2)

Air date: 1989-01-11

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".

Cooking the Books (Episode 3)

Air date: 1989-01-18

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.

The Spy Who Broke the Code (Episode 4)

Air date: 1989-01-25

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.

Buckets of Money (Episode 5)

Air date: 1989-02-01

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.

The Copper Seven Story (Episode 6)

Air date: 1989-02-08

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.

Afghan (Episode 7)

Air date: 1989-02-15

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.

The Toxic Trail (Episode 8)

Air date: 1989-02-22

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.

The Case of 'F' (Episode 9)

Air date: 1989-03-01

Runtime: 45 min

The Return of the Death Squads (Episode 10)

Air date: 1989-03-08

Runtime: 45 min

Burma - Dying for Democracy (Episode 11)

Air date: 1989-03-15

Runtime: 45 min

Voices From Long Larten (Episode 12)

Air date: 1989-03-22

Runtime: 45 min

Young, Homeless and Broke (Episode 13)

Air date: 1989-03-29

Runtime: 45 min

Chico (Episode 14)

Air date: 1989-04-05

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

Carry on Flying (Episode 15)

Air date: 1989-04-12

Runtime: 45 min

The Most Neglected Crime (Episode 16)

Air date: 1989-04-19

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.

Dispatches (26/04/1989) (Episode 17)

Air date: 1989-04-26

Runtime: 45 min

A Suitable Case for Treatment (Episode 18)

Air date: 1989-05-03

Runtime: 45 min

The Sins of the Fathers (Episode 19)

Air date: 1989-05-10

Runtime: 45 min

Not What the Doctor Ordered (Episode 20)

Air date: 1989-05-17

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health

Warlord of Kayan (Episode 21)

Air date: 1989-05-24

Runtime: 45 min

The Ultimate Blasphemy (Episode 22)

Air date: 1989-05-31

Runtime: 45 min

Fit as a Fiddle (Episode 23)

Air date: 1989-06-07

Runtime: 45 min

Empire of the Sun (Episode 24)

Air date: 1989-06-14

Runtime: 45 min

Year of the Locust (Episode 25)

Air date: 1989-06-21

Runtime: 45 min

A State of Decay (Episode 26)

Air date: 1989-06-28

Runtime: 45 min

Terror Island (Episode 27)

Air date: 1989-07-05

Runtime: 45 min

The Spanish Connection (Episode 28)

Air date: 1989-10-04

Runtime: 45 min

The Day of the Technopath (Episode 29)

Air date: 1989-10-11

Runtime: 45 min

No, Prime Minister (Episode 30)

Air date: 1989-10-18

Runtime: 45 min

The Undoing of Edwina (Episode 31)

Air date: 1989-10-25

Runtime: 45 min

Mission Impossible (Episode 32)

Air date: 1989-11-01

Runtime: 45 min

In the Coal Hole (Episode 33)

Air date: 1989-11-08

Runtime: 45 min

The False Confession File (Episode 34)

Air date: 1989-11-15

Runtime: 45 min

Hungarians Not Comrades (Episode 35)

Air date: 1989-11-22

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.

Twelve Days in November (Episode 36)

Air date: 1989-11-29

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.

Licence to Kill (Episode 37)

Air date: 1989-12-06

Runtime: 45 min

Privatising Poland (Episode 38)

Air date: 1989-12-13

Runtime: 45 min

Road to Damascus (Episode 39)

Air date: 1989-12-20

Runtime: 45 min