World in Action - Season 7

1. Everybody's Children

Aired: 9/21/1970

School children at school are doing a play on freedom and the Vietnam war also playing a general

2. The Quiet Mutiny

Aired: 9/28/1970

Embedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.

3. The Man Who Made Biafra

Aired: 10/5/1970

4. Pigs?

Aired: 10/12/1970

Members of the Cincinnati Police Force discuss the increasing animosity being dealt out by the public towards policemen.

5. They're Only Human Beings Like Everybody Else

Aired: 10/19/1970

There are about 1,500,000 severely physically handicapped people in the United Kingdom. There are, therefore, 1,500,000 handicapped families. This means there are 6,750,000 people directly involved with the problems of the disabled.

6. A Business Arrangement

Aired: 10/26/1970

7. S.A.L.T.

Aired: 11/2/1970

8. Goodbye Mr. Smith?

Aired: 11/9/1970

9. The Mountain People

Aired: 11/16/1970

America's poor whites of the Appalachia region, who fear there maybe violence against them in the future.

10. The Final Harvest

Aired: 11/23/1970

11. The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet

Aired: 11/24/1970

12. The Schemes of Jerome D. Hoffman

Aired: 11/30/1970

Follows the trail of New York financier Hoffman, who's empire had just crashed leaving investors in the UK out of pocket.

13. The Law Shop

Aired: 12/7/1970

14. Oh! Birmingham

Aired: 12/14/1970

15. The Dumping Grounds

Aired: 12/21/1970

The problems of malnutrition leading to mental and physical problems among the children of resettled black South African families.

16. American Radio

Aired: 1/4/1971

A personal view by Denis Mitchell.

17. Round One

Aired: 1/11/1971

18. The Dutschke Affair

Aired: 1/18/1971

19. The Village That Quit

Aired: 1/25/1971

A village is asked to give up smoking for a week and the results monitored.

20. The Monday Club

Aired: 2/1/1971

21. The Breaking Point

Aired: 2/8/1971

22. Square One

Aired: 2/15/1971

With renewed fighting through Ulster, has the conflict gone back to square one?

23. Lucky

Aired: 2/22/1971

Follows the life of an 18 year old from Devon who arrives in London penniless and has to sleep rough, but eventually with help manages to find a job and somewhere to live.

24. Ford: The Inside Story

Aired: 3/1/1971

25. The Truants

Aired: 3/8/1971

World In Action talks to three teenage truants about what they get up to when they "wag off" school.

26. The Man Who Stole Uganda

Aired: 3/15/1971

A military coup has taken place in Uganda, but what is the real story behind the rumours?

27. As It Was in the Beginning...

Aired: 3/22/1971

Uses footage from previous editions of World in Action to present a history of the troubles so far.

28. The Year Britain Stopped Growing

Aired: 3/29/1971

Investigates the claim that lack of investment in the UK will seriously affect its competitiveness with mainland Europe.

29. South of the Border

Aired: 4/5/1971

Attitudes in Eire to the IRA and the situation in Ulster.

30. The Salvation Army

Aired: 4/19/1971

31. The Sailors' Jail

Aired: 4/26/1971

32. Going Private

Aired: 5/3/1971

Investigates the controversy surrounding private patients and their consultants and whether they are exploiting the NHS.

33. The Tanzam Railway

Aired: 5/10/1971

34. A 2.9% Swing to Democracy in Bradford

Aired: 5/17/1971

35. Death Is Afraid of Us

Aired: 5/24/1971

Some people in the country of Georgia claim to be over a 100 years old and still working like people half their age.

36. Conversations with a Working Man

Aired: 6/7/1971

Following one working class man through the struggles of his average day, to show how the forgotten majority are living in Britain.

37. Anthony Mascarenhas

Aired: 6/14/1971

38. A Woman's Place

Aired: 6/21/1971

39. The Dust at Acre Mill

Aired: 6/28/1971

40. Episode 40

Aired: 7/5/1971

41. Major Khaled's War

Aired: 7/12/1971

42. End of a Journey

Aired: 7/19/1971

43. The Man from No. 10

Aired: 8/3/1971