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When does World in Action Season 16 come out?

World in Action Season 16 premiered Monday, January 7, 1980 on ITV1 and ended Monday, August 18, 1980. The season has 30 episodes.

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1. Mr. Benn's Secret Service

Mr Benn questions the role of the Civil Service and whether it is becoming too powerful and unanswerable for the country's good?

Monday · 46 years ago

2. Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis

Monday · 46 years ago

3. Cambodia Year One - Life After Death

Monday · 46 years ago

4. The Man Who Bought United

Monday · 46 years ago

5. The Steel Papers

Monday · 46 years ago

6. Behind the Paper Curtain

Monday · 46 years ago

7. The Pulse of America

Monday · 46 years ago

8. The Final Harvest

Monday · 46 years ago

9. Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy

Case studies of people on both sides of the current crackdown on social security fraud.

Monday · 46 years ago

10. Follow the Yellow Cake Road

Monday · 46 years ago

11. Decline and Fall

Monday · 46 years ago

12. Alive and Well in the U.S.A.

Monday · 46 years ago

13. Not in the Public Interest

Monday · 46 years ago

14. Spying for Survival

Monday · 46 years ago

15. The Pound in Their Pocket

Monday · 46 years ago

16. The Trial of Stanley Adams

Monday · 46 years ago

17. Britain Over a Barrel

Monday · 46 years ago

18. A Bad Day for Southall

Monday · 46 years ago

19. Mr. Kane's Campaign

Monday · 46 years ago

20. Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?

A review of Britain's membership of the Common Market.

Tuesday · 46 years ago

21. Market Day

Monday · 46 years ago

22. Fly the Flag, Pay the Price

Monday · 46 years ago

23. Russian Games

Monday · 46 years ago

24. Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang

Monday · 46 years ago

25. Last Stand at Lisburn

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 1976: in the course of the year, five Catholic residents died as a result of gun and bomb attacks by the Ulster Defence Association and the new Ulster Volunteer Force, loyalist paramilitary groups that subsequently entered their own feud.

Monday · 46 years ago

26. Vietnam - Prisoner of War

Monday · 46 years ago

27. A Dignified Exit

"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.

Monday · 46 years ago

28. The Tirion Programme

Monday · 46 years ago

29. Suffer the Children

Monday · 46 years ago

30. The Chart Busters

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.

Monday · 46 years ago

World in Action Season 16 guest stars

  • Tony Benn

    Tony Benn

  • Clive Jenkins

    Clive Jenkins

  • Ian Paisley

  • David Owen

    David Owen

  • Tony Wilson

    Tony Wilson

  • Margaret Beckett

    Margaret Beckett

  • John Nott

  • Alan Clark

    Alan Clark

  • Shirley Williams

    Shirley Williams

  • Peter Shore

    Peter Shore

  • George Brown

  • Niall Padden

    Niall Padden

  • Christopher Quinn

  • Cindy Truman

  • Philip Martin Brown

    Philip Martin Brown

  • John Deacon

    John Deacon

World in Action Season 16 FAQ

When does World in Action Season 16 come out?

World in Action Season 16 premiered Monday, January 7, 1980 on ITV1.

How many episodes are in World in Action Season 16?

World in Action Season 16 has 30 episodes.

Are new episodes of World in Action Season 16 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

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