Overview
No overview on TMDB for this season.
Episodes
39 in this season
1. Return to Year Zero?
Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.
1989-01-0445 min
2. Gorbachev's Asylums
Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".
1989-01-1145 min
3. Cooking the Books
Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.
1989-01-1845 min
4. The Spy Who Broke the Code
Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.
1989-01-2545 min
5. Buckets of Money
Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.
1989-02-0145 min
6. The Copper Seven Story
Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.
1989-02-0845 min
7. Afghan
A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.
1989-02-1545 min
8. The Toxic Trail
Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.
1989-02-2245 min
9. The Case of 'F'
No synopsis.
1989-03-0145 min
10. The Return of the Death Squads
No synopsis.
1989-03-0845 min
11. Burma - Dying for Democracy
No synopsis.
1989-03-1545 min
12. Voices From Long Larten
No synopsis.
1989-03-2245 min
13. Young, Homeless and Broke
No synopsis.
1989-03-2945 min
14. Chico
A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
1989-04-0545 min
15. Carry on Flying
No synopsis.
1989-04-1245 min
16. The Most Neglected Crime
Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.
1989-04-1945 min
17. Dispatches (26/04/1989)
No synopsis.
1989-04-2645 min
18. A Suitable Case for Treatment
No synopsis.
1989-05-0345 min
19. The Sins of the Fathers
No synopsis.
1989-05-1045 min
20. Not What the Doctor Ordered
Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health
1989-05-1745 min
21. Warlord of Kayan
No synopsis.
1989-05-2445 min
22. The Ultimate Blasphemy
No synopsis.
1989-05-3145 min
23. Fit as a Fiddle
No synopsis.
1989-06-0745 min
24. Empire of the Sun
No synopsis.
1989-06-1445 min
25. Year of the Locust
No synopsis.
1989-06-2145 min
26. A State of Decay
No synopsis.
1989-06-2845 min
27. Terror Island
No synopsis.
1989-07-0545 min
28. The Spanish Connection
No synopsis.
1989-10-0445 min
29. The Day of the Technopath
No synopsis.
1989-10-1145 min
30. No, Prime Minister
No synopsis.
1989-10-1845 min
31. The Undoing of Edwina
No synopsis.
1989-10-2545 min
32. Mission Impossible
No synopsis.
1989-11-0145 min
33. In the Coal Hole
No synopsis.
1989-11-0845 min
34. The False Confession File
No synopsis.
1989-11-1545 min
35. Hungarians Not Comrades
Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.
1989-11-2245 min
36. Twelve Days in November
Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.
1989-11-2945 min
37. Licence to Kill
No synopsis.
1989-12-0645 min
38. Privatising Poland
No synopsis.
1989-12-1345 min
39. Road to Damascus
No synopsis.
1989-12-2045 min