Whicker's World

  • Iniziato: Ott 1965
  • Episodi: 178
  • Followers: 1
  • Terminata
  • BBC One
  • Sconosciuto
  • Documentary

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Plumes For My Rich Aunt
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Data di messa in onda
Ott 16, 1965
It's feathers all the way within the guarded, gilded salons of High Fashion, where one dress can cost £3,000. A puff of plumes, a shimmer of sequins, a knock of naked knees as the .. show full overview
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The Beauty Queens
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Data di messa in onda
Nov 13, 1965
"What's a pretty girl like you... doing in a place like this?" The hair, massive and lacquered stiff - a solid, unmoving helmet. Make-up, heavy - a deep dusty coating, fanned by great .. show full overview
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The Rock of Gibraltar
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Data di messa in onda
Dic 11, 1965
with Alan Whicker It's an Unpleasant Business if you're not Friendly with the Chap Next Door... ...especially (as His Excellency explains) if the Chap Next Door is a nation of .. show full overview
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A Few Castles in Spain
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Data di messa in onda
Gen 06, 1966
The Albas, one of the world's great families, have accumulated their treasures during nine centuries; within their palaces and castles they live in a style almost unknown in the world .. show full overview
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A Very Serious Doctor
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Data di messa in onda
Gen 15, 1966
He comes from the Sixth Sphere. A doctor, in fact, who comes from a world other than Whicker's - indeed from "the Other World." He is one of the unorthodox healers to whom thousands of .. show full overview
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The Caribbean
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Data di messa in onda
Feb 05, 1966
Alan Whicker looks back to his journeys through the sunshine islands from Trinidad to Jamaica, each with its own improbable blend of cultures, colours, and creeds. Here extravagant resorts and crushing poverty are neighbours, but no one frets.
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It's Not Part of Their Seamanlike Duties to Dance
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Data di messa in onda
Mar 05, 1966
The Sea Cruise is for those who can afford so much more than a holiday camp. Tonight's film joins the affluent flotsam to find out what the £15-a-day cruisers are seeking. Is it fun and friendship? Moonlight and romance?
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Now What's Left to Dream About?
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Data di messa in onda
Apr 02, 1966
Alan Whicker reports on The Pools Winners. Today and every Saturday twelve million people hope for eight draws on their football pool coupon. How does it feel to open your front door and .. show full overview
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Carnival in Munich
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Data di messa in onda
Apr 30, 1966
As winter ends, Munich enjoys its Fasching, an uninhibited pre-Lenten spree. With daunting stamina the town dedicates itself to six noisy weeks of dressing-up and celebrating into the .. show full overview
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People in Trouble
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Data di messa in onda
Giu 04, 1966
Today the desperate and the wretched, the suicidal and the drug addicts, gamblers and neurotics, divorcees and alcoholics are finding salvation in the Anonymous Societies, which reach .. show full overview
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How Do You Spend £60,000 a Day?
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Data di messa in onda
Lug 02, 1966
Alan Whicker in Kuwait, scene of the most staggering success story of the century: a tiny, primitive desert state transformed into the world's richest society, where no Kuwaiti need work .. show full overview
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Is There Anybody There? Life After Death
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Data di messa in onda
Lug 30, 1966
When we die do we simply move on to another plane to live again in a sort of astral suburbia, able, through a medium to transmit messages of encouragement and hope to loved ones still .. show full overview
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How They Filmed "Grand Prix"
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Data di messa in onda
Ott 01, 1966
The birth-pangs of one of the most spectacular and expensive cinema epics ever attempted - MGM's £3-million "Grand Prix", a film about the motor-racing world. The backdrop - Monte Carlo; .. show full overview
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The Quest for Beauty
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Data di messa in onda
Ott 22, 1966
You look in the mirror and there they are... wrinkles, sagging muscles, grey hairs - or that getting-thin-on-top shine! The unhappy signs of an ageing process which some people seem able .. show full overview
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Women of Japan
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Data di messa in onda
Nov 19, 1966
Arguably, the ideal woman is Japanese. She knows how to obey, how to be submissive, to keep silent, to charm with her shy tenderness... a man's woman perhaps. The perpetual bow and the .. show full overview
1x16
The Philippines
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Data di messa in onda
Dic 17, 1966
One of the largest English-speaking nations in the world is a distant, little-known Republic which, after 48 years of American occupation and two decades of independence, seems a bridge .. show full overview
1x17
The Italian Private Eyes: Certainly It's a Grubby Business...
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Data di messa in onda
Gen 14, 1967
Italy, where Tom Ponzi, detective extraordinary, runs the largest Private Detective Agency in Europe. As his men go about their stealthy business watching and trailing be it a bored .. show full overview
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The Antique Game
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Data di messa in onda
Feb 25, 1967
In the booming world of antiques what used to be junk can now be worth a lot of money. Alan Whicker looks at the fringes of this world and goes into the delicate question of when restoration becomes faking.
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The World of James Bond
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Data di messa in onda
Mar 25, 1967
Tonight we join 007 - Secret Agent and all-time box-office champion. We're on location in Japan with James Bond's latest £3-million epic "You Only Live Twice", which could be seen by 100 .. show full overview
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The Stresses of Divorce
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Data di messa in onda
Apr 22, 1967
Why does the pressure on people in the public eye so often break up their marriages? Five divorces revolve round these two women: Elizabeth Jane Howard, novelist, and Sandra Paul, .. show full overview
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The Laughter Makers: If They Don't Like You, You're Dead
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Data di messa in onda
Mag 20, 1967
There is no sure-fire formula that produces laughter. This is what makes the comedian the most mixed-up, most vulnerable person in show business. If you refuse to laugh he "dies the .. show full overview
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A Dubious Fraternity
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Data di messa in onda
Giu 17, 1967
The wasteland of London's W11 is the world of the small-time crook. In this society a young man, just out of jail - seven convictions behind him - is trying to go straight. Surrounded by .. show full overview
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The Love Generation: I'm Here to Tell You - It's Happening All Over!
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Data di messa in onda
Set 09, 1967
San Francisco has become the capital of the world for a rapidly growing tribal community of self-styled beautiful people. They are staging a peaceful revolution against the pressures and .. show full overview
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Conflict in Kentucky: My People Are More Important Than a Few Horses Running...
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Data di messa in onda
Ott 07, 1967
Alan Whicker attends the 93rd running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill's Downs track in Louisville, Kentucky. But the event is threatened when activists plan a programme of civil .. show full overview
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South Sea Island Coronation
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Data di messa in onda
Nov 04, 1967
Flame dancers whirl, drums throb, guests feast on thirteen thousand sucking pigs, and in a festive mixture of Polynesia and Ruritania a King is crowned. Once ruled by Queen Salote, Tonga .. show full overview
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Isle of Astrologers
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Data di messa in onda
Dic 02, 1967
How long will you live... Whom will you marry... Will you be rich or poor - or Prime Minister...? Do you believe that everything in life is determined, at birth, by the position of the .. show full overview
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Singapore 999
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Data di messa in onda
Dic 30, 1967
Tonight we hit Arab Street. A chicken squawks, a cry of death, a knife flashes, and the spouting blood religiously collected cleanses the sins of a dead woman. The Chinese have many .. show full overview
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A Handful of Horrors: I Don't Like My Monsters to Have Oedipus Complexes
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Data di messa in onda
Gen 27, 1968
Many people enjoy being scared - will pay for the pleasure of being frightened out of their lives. Tellers of ghost stories have profited from this shadowed side of our natures for .. show full overview
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Bandits of Sardinia
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Data di messa in onda
Feb 24, 1968
In the Barbagia - least-known mountains of Europe where it is said there is a robbery, a kidnapping, or a murder every day - Alan Whicker follows the course of a bloody vendetta that has .. show full overview
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Your Money - Or Your Life!
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Data di messa in onda
Mar 16, 1968
Alan Whicker has not turned highwayman - but this is the choice he finds many of our top money earners must make when faced by the Tax Man. The prospect of the Budget fills the top .. show full overview
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Birds'-Eye View
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Data di messa in onda
Apr 27, 1968
If you look marvellous - who needs a gorgeous character? In this anniversary year of the suffragette, Whicker's World observes three young women, their dreams and attitudes to their .. show full overview
1x32 Ultimo episodio della stagione
Two Sides of Fleet Street
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Data di messa in onda
Mag 18, 1968
As a nation, we have an enormous appetite for newsprint: we read more, per head, than any country in the world. Of our nine national dailies perhaps the two most influential are at .. show full overview
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Papa Doc -The Black Sheep
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Data di messa in onda
Giu 17, 1969
Papa Doc - The Black Sheep Hatti was the world's first black republic, ruled from 1957 to 1971 by 'President For Life' Dr Francis Duvalier - Papa Doc. Whicker meets Papa Doc in his .. show full overview
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Whicker In Stroessner's Paraguay - The Last Dictator
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Data di messa in onda
Apr 07, 1970
Whicker In Stroessner's Paraguay - The Last Dictator Alan Whicker comes face-to-face with the last of South America's old style dictators - Don Alfredo Stroessner who has been absolute .. show full overview
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Harold Robbins - I'm The World's Greatest Writer
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Data di messa in onda
Dic 13, 1971
Harold Robbins - I'm The World's Best Writer Harold Robbins, 56 and five times married, is the orphan who became the world's best paid writer. In New York he takes Alan Whicker round .. show full overview

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