World in Action

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  • Premiered: Jan 1963
  • Episodes: 1265
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Season 16
16x1
Mr. Benn's Secret Service
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Air date
Jan 07, 1980
Mr Benn questions the role of the Civil Service and whether it is becoming too powerful and unanswerable for the country's good?
16x2
Cambodia Year One - Aid Crisis
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Air date
Jan 14, 1980
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16x3
Cambodia Year One - Life After Death
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Air date
Jan 21, 1980
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16x4
The Man Who Bought United
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Jan 28, 1980
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16x5
The Steel Papers
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Feb 04, 1980
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16x6
Behind the Paper Curtain
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Feb 11, 1980
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16x7
The Pulse of America
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Feb 18, 1980
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16x8
The Final Harvest
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Air date
Feb 25, 1980
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16x9
Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy
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Air date
Mar 03, 1980
Case studies of people on both sides of the current crackdown on social security fraud.
16x10
Follow the Yellow Cake Road
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Mar 10, 1980
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16x11
Decline and Fall
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Mar 17, 1980
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16x12
Alive and Well in the U.S.A.
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Air date
Mar 24, 1980
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16x13
Not in the Public Interest
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Air date
Apr 14, 1980
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16x14
Spying for Survival
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Apr 21, 1980
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16x15
The Pound in Their Pocket
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Apr 28, 1980
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16x16
The Trial of Stanley Adams
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May 12, 1980
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16x17
Britain Over a Barrel
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May 19, 1980
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16x18
A Bad Day for Southall
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Jun 02, 1980
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16x19
Mr. Kane's Campaign
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Air date
Jun 09, 1980
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16x20
Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?
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Air date
Jun 10, 1980
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16x21
Market Day
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Jun 16, 1980
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16x22
Fly the Flag, Pay the Price
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Jun 23, 1980
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16x23
Russian Games
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Jun 30, 1980
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16x24
Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang
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Air date
Jul 07, 1980
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16x25
Last Stand in Lisburn
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Air date
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 .. show full overview
16x26
Vietnam - Prisoner of War
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Air date
Jul 14, 1980
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16x27
A Dignified Exit
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Air date
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.
16x28
The Tirion Programme
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Aug 04, 1980
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16x29
Suffer the Children
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Air date
Aug 11, 1980
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16x30 Season finale
The Chart Busters
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Air date
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.

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