Whicker's World is an award-winning British television documentary series that ran from 1958 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker. Originally a segment on the BBC's Tonight programme in 1958, Whicker's World became a fully-fledged television series in its own right in the 1960s. The series was first shown by the BBC until 1968, and then by ITV from 1969 to 1983, when it was produced by Yorkshire Television, in which Whicker himself was a shareholder. The series returned to the BBC in 1984, and to ITV again in 1992.
Whicker's World (Season 11)
California: I Wear a Uniform and Pack a Gun - But I'm Still a Woman... (Episode 1)
Air date: 1980-04-16
Overview: Alan Whicker looks at the rise in female police officers in the U.S. and talks to several women who joined the force and the prejudice they face from the public and their own male colleagues.
California: If a Cop Wiggled Around with Pink Hair and a Limp Wrist, It Would Discredit the Department... (Episode 2)
Air date: 1980-04-16
Overview: Alan Whicker looks at the recruitment drive in the San Francisco Police Department aimed at getting more officers from the Lesbian and Gay Community.
California: I Feel Trapped in Paradise Here... (Episode 3)
Air date: 1980-04-23
Overview: lan Whicker visits Los Angeles and meets Britt Ekland and Sherry Lansing, goes to a birthday party for dogs and talks to starstruck teenagers and their pushy mothers anxious to see their offspring make it in show-business.
California: He'll Never Have to Divorce Me... He Can Always Change Me (Episode 4)
Air date: 1980-04-30
Overview: Alan Whicker revisits plastic surgeon Dr. Kurt Wagner and his wife Kathy, whom he first met in 1973.
California: Nothing Is Utopia, This Comes Pretty Close (Episode 5)
Air date: 1980-05-07
Overview: Alan Whicker meets some of the 50,000 Britons who live in Los Angeles, including actors Patrick Macnee, Christopher Lee and Peter Sellers (in one of his last ever television interviews).
California: Shooting Somebody... It's Called Survival (Episode 6)
Air date: 1980-05-14
Overview: Alan Whicker examines the fear of violence that causes so many ordinary Americans to pack a gun, and goes to a school that teaches people how to shoot to kill.
