World in Action

📊 Series Specifications

Network ITV1
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 35
Total Episodes 1294
Original Language EN

World in Action (1963)

⭐ 3.5 / 5 (2 votes) 🎬 35 Seasons 📼 1294 Episodes 🏷️ News, Documentary 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.

Seasons & Episodes

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E1 Beat the Clock on Defence Spending

Military budget over spending is presented as a game show.

E2 Atomic Arms Race
E3 Congo Conflict
E4 East Germany
E6 Lord Hailsham
E7 Supermarkets

An investigation into supermarket practices and their effect on a neighbourhood.

E8 The Fashion Houses
E9 Tibet

A look at the first years of China's occupation of Tibet.

E10 Harold Wilson
E11 The Gambling Business
E12 Typhoid in Zermatt
E13 Migrants

The plight of southern based Italians having to move to the North of Italy for work.

E14 The Airlines
E15 The Volunteers

The valuable contributions young volunteers make.

E16 The Der Speigel Affair
E17 The Petrol Business

An investigation into the UK petrol supply business and techniques used amongst rival firms to win customers.

E18 The Greek Royal Family
E19 Charities
E20 Stanley Matthews
E21 Litter

A look at the country's increasing litter problem.

E22 Don't Take the Risk
E23 Election Costs
E24 Ivanov
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