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Season 16 · 30 episodes · Jan 7, 1980

  1. Episode 1

    Mr. Benn's Secret Service

    Jan 7, 1980

    Mr Benn questions the role of the Civil Service and whether it is becoming too powerful and unanswerable for the country's good?

  2. Episode 2

    Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis

    Jan 14, 1980

  3. Episode 3

    Cambodia Year One - Life After Death

    Jan 21, 1980

  4. Episode 4

    The Man Who Bought United

    Jan 28, 1980

  5. Episode 5

    The Steel Papers

    Feb 4, 1980

  6. Episode 6

    Behind the Paper Curtain

    Feb 11, 1980

  7. Episode 7

    The Pulse of America

    Feb 18, 1980

  8. Episode 8

    The Final Harvest

    Feb 25, 1980

  9. Episode 9

    Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy

    Mar 3, 1980

    Case studies of people on both sides of the current crackdown on social security fraud.

  10. Episode 10

    Follow the Yellow Cake Road

    Mar 10, 1980

  11. Episode 11

    Decline and Fall

    Mar 17, 1980

  12. Episode 12

    Alive and Well in the U.S.A.

    Mar 24, 1980

  13. Episode 13

    Not in the Public Interest

    Apr 14, 1980

  14. Episode 14

    Spying for Survival

    Apr 21, 1980

  15. Episode 15

    The Pound in Their Pocket

    Apr 28, 1980

  16. Episode 16

    The Trial of Stanley Adams

    May 12, 1980

  17. Episode 17

    Britain Over a Barrel

    May 19, 1980

  18. Episode 18

    A Bad Day for Southall

    Jun 2, 1980

  19. Episode 19

    Mr. Kane's Campaign

    Jun 9, 1980

  20. Episode 20

    Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?

    Jun 10, 1980

    A review of Britain's membership of the Common Market.

  21. Episode 21

    Market Day

    Jun 16, 1980

  22. Episode 22

    Fly the Flag, Pay the Price

    Jun 23, 1980

  23. Episode 23

    Russian Games

    Jun 30, 1980

  24. Episode 24

    Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang

    Jul 7, 1980

  25. Episode 25

    Last Stand at Lisburn

    Jul 14, 1980

    With communities across Northern Ireland, from the end of the 1960s Lisburn suffered through three decades of political violence, "The Troubles". For Lisburn the first killings came in 1976: in the course of the year, five Catholic residents died as a result of gun and bomb attacks by the Ulster Defence Association and the new Ulster Volunteer Force, loyalist paramilitary groups that subsequently entered their own feud.

  26. Episode 26

    Vietnam - Prisoner of War

    Jul 14, 1980

  27. Episode 27

    A Dignified Exit

    Jul 28, 1980

    "EXIT" - the society for the right to die with dignity, are publishing a controversial suicide guide for terminally ill people who require a dignified death.

  28. Episode 28

    The Tirion Programme

    Aug 4, 1980

  29. Episode 29

    Suffer the Children

    Aug 11, 1980

  30. Episode 30

    The Chart Busters

    Aug 18, 1980

    Investigating allegations that the pop music charts are controlled not by consumers, but by manipulative tactics of the big record companies, thus not being a true reflection of popularity at all.