World in Action — Season 13
39 episodesFirst aired 27 September 1976
E1Unemployment - Who Cares?
Sept 1976
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.
- E2
Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma
Oct 1976
- E3
A School of Thought
Oct 1976
Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.
- E4
Mr Cork Examines the Books
Oct 1976
An ordinary accountant is given the theoretical task of being Chancellor of the Exchequer and giving his take on the situation.
- E5
Campaigning by Numbers
Oct 1976
- E6
Yesterday's Truants
Nov 1976
Follow up programme to one five years previous to find out what happened to some persistent school truants.
- E7
Living Dangerously
Nov 1976
The effects of the chemical Dioxin after a factory explosion in Italy.
- E8
The Killing of Uganda
Nov 1976
- E9
The National Party
Nov 1976
Following the racial violence in Blackburn, looks at the rise of the extreme right wing.
- E10
The Long Arm of the Dina
Nov 1976
- E11
The Lawbreakers
Dec 1976
- E12
Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour
Dec 1976
- E13
Mr Opie Brings Bad News
Jan 1977
- E14
Doctor's Orders
Jan 1977
Doctors complain that they are being put under pressure by both patients and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe certain drugs.
- E15
Episode 15
Jan 1977
- E16
The Militants
Jan 1977
Investigates why the Labour Party is allowing a group within to produce a newspaper like 'The Militant'.
- E17
Waiting for Merlyn
Feb 197730m
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
- E18
The Road to Amsterdam
Feb 1977
- E19
The Police Tapes
Feb 1977
- E21
Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow
Feb 1977
- E22
Do You Take This Man?
Mar 1977
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.
- E23
From Death Row-To Downing St
Mar 1977
- E24
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us
Mar 1977
- E25
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 1
Mar 1977
- E26
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 2
Apr 1977
- E27
The Plane Makers
Apr 1977
- E28
The Prison Children
Apr 1977
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?
- E29
All Work and Low Pay
May 1977
- E30
What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know
May 1977
- E31
The Man Who Went Too Far
May 1977
Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.
- E32
Casualties of the Cuts
May 1977
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.
- E33
Without Limit of Time
Jun 1977
- E34
My Years with Amin
Jun 1977
- E35
Starting on the Dole
Jun 1977
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.
- E36
The Very Public Death of Enrico Sidoli
Jul 1977
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.
- E37
Jack's Last Stand
Jul 1977
- E38
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 1
Jul 1977
- E39
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 2
Jul 1977
- E40
Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 3
Aug 1977
