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Season 13 · 39 episodes · Sep 27, 1976

  1. Episode 1

    Unemployment - Who Cares?

    Sep 27, 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.

  2. Episode 2

    Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma

    Oct 4, 1976

  3. Episode 3

    A School of Thought

    Oct 11, 1976

    Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.

  4. Episode 4

    Mr Cork Examines the Books

    Oct 18, 1976

    An ordinary accountant is given the theoretical task of being Chancellor of the Exchequer and giving his take on the situation.

  5. Episode 5

    Campaigning by Numbers

    Oct 25, 1976

  6. Episode 6

    Yesterday's Truants

    Nov 1, 1976

    Follow up programme to one five years previous to find out what happened to some persistent school truants.

  7. Episode 7

    Living Dangerously

    Nov 8, 1976

    The effects of the chemical Dioxin after a factory explosion in Italy.

  8. Episode 8

    The Killing of Uganda

    Nov 15, 1976

  9. Episode 9

    The National Party

    Nov 22, 1976

    Following the racial violence in Blackburn, looks at the rise of the extreme right wing.

  10. Episode 10

    The Long Arm of the Dina

    Nov 29, 1976

  11. Episode 11

    The Lawbreakers

    Dec 6, 1976

  12. Episode 12

    Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour

    Dec 13, 1976

  13. Episode 13

    Mr Opie Brings Bad News

    Jan 10, 1977

  14. Episode 14

    Doctor's Orders

    Jan 17, 1977

    Doctors complain that they are being put under pressure by both patients and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe certain drugs.

  15. Episode 15

    Episode 15

    Jan 24, 1977

  16. Episode 16

    The Militants

    Jan 31, 1977

    Investigates why the Labour Party is allowing a group within to produce a newspaper like 'The Militant'.

  17. Episode 17

    Waiting for Merlyn

    Feb 7, 1977

    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

  18. Episode 18

    The Road to Amsterdam

    Feb 14, 1977

  19. Episode 19

    The Police Tapes

    Feb 21, 1977

  20. Episode 21

    Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow

    Feb 28, 1977

  21. Episode 22

    Do You Take This Man?

    Mar 7, 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.

  22. Episode 23

    From Death Row-To Downing St

    Mar 14, 1977

  23. Episode 24

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us

    Mar 21, 1977

  24. Episode 25

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 1

    Mar 28, 1977

  25. Episode 26

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 2

    Apr 4, 1977

  26. Episode 27

    The Plane Makers

    Apr 18, 1977

  27. Episode 28

    The Prison Children

    Apr 25, 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?

  28. Episode 29

    All Work and Low Pay

    May 2, 1977

  29. Episode 30

    What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know

    May 16, 1977

  30. Episode 31

    The Man Who Went Too Far

    May 23, 1977

    Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.

  31. Episode 32

    Casualties of the Cuts

    May 30, 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.

  32. Episode 33

    Without Limit of Time

    Jun 13, 1977

  33. Episode 34

    My Years with Amin

    Jun 20, 1977

  34. Episode 35

    Starting on the Dole

    Jun 27, 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.

  35. Episode 36

    The Very Public Death of Enrico Sidoli

    Jul 4, 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.

  36. Episode 37

    Jack's Last Stand

    Jul 11, 1977

  37. Episode 38

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 1

    Jul 18, 1977

  38. Episode 39

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 2

    Jul 25, 1977

  39. Episode 40

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 3

    Aug 1, 1977