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When does World in Action Season 5 come out?

World in Action Season 5 premiered Tuesday, September 10, 1968 on ITV1 and ended Monday, May 19, 1969. The season has 34 episodes.

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1. Give Us the Works

An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.

Tuesday · 58 years ago

2. Spies for Hire

Monday · 58 years ago

3. February's Children

An investigation into 7 children (expelled from Kenya) who have to live on their own in the UK as their parents cannot join them due to new laws.

Monday · 58 years ago

4. Episode 4

Monday · 58 years ago

5. New Drugs, Same Needle

The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.

Monday · 58 years ago

6. A Score to Settle

Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.

Monday · 58 years ago

7. Backs to the Wall

A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.

Monday · 58 years ago

8. Special: Vietnam

Sunday · 58 years ago

9. A City Stumbles

A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.

Monday · 58 years ago

10. Nasser's Fortified Ditch

Monday · 58 years ago

11. An Outbreak of Peace?

With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.

Monday · 58 years ago

12. A Buyer's Market

The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.

Monday · 57 years ago

13. The Trail of the Vanishing Voters

World in Action tries to trace the overseas voters in Britain who have supposedly voted for The People's National Congress Party in Guyana's election.

Monday · 57 years ago

14. The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom

A profile of Laos, considered the most unproductive country in the world but rich and financially stable through its passing of opium products and dodgy gold.

Monday · 57 years ago

15. First Class Delivery

The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.

Monday · 57 years ago

16. Sorry, Nothing Doing

Update on the subjects of three notable previous films in the series, the gypsies of An Outlaw's Life (1968), the large family of The Born Losers (1967), and the elderly ladies of Ward F.13 (1968).

Monday · 57 years ago

17. The Making of a Prime Minister

Monday · 57 years ago

18. Next Year in Peking

Monday · 57 years ago

19. All Change at Newry!

Monday · 57 years ago

20. A New School of Thought

Monday · 57 years ago

21. Death of a Student

The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.

Monday · 57 years ago

22. Like Other Men

Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.

Monday · 57 years ago

23. Living in the Red

Monday · 57 years ago

24. A War on Ice

Monday · 57 years ago

25. Home for a Revolution

Monday · 57 years ago

26. Where People Don't Matter

The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.

Monday · 57 years ago

27. A Case to Answer

Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

Monday · 57 years ago

28. The Men Left Behind

Monday · 57 years ago

29. The Six Day War - Day 666

Monday · 57 years ago

30. The Owners and the Owned

Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.

Monday · 57 years ago

31. Inside Out

A revolutionary new look at how mental patients should be treated, allowing them out into the wider world, and distancing as much as possible from Victorian lunatic asylums.

Monday · 57 years ago

32. A modest proposal

Monday · 57 years ago

33. Two Men in Two Tin Huts

Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.

Monday · 57 years ago

34. The Leftovers

Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.

Monday · 57 years ago

World in Action Season 5 guest stars

  • Tony Benn

    Tony Benn

  • Tariq Ali

    Tariq Ali

  • Bill Deedes

  • George Best

    George Best

  • Danny Blanchflower

    Danny Blanchflower

  • John Steinbeck

    John Steinbeck

  • Gus Macdonald

  • Ray Bradford

  • Vincent Hanna

  • John McInerny

  • Jan Palach

  • Ali Bhutto

  • Yasser Arafat

    Yasser Arafat

  • Norman Buchan, MP

World in Action Season 5 FAQ

When does World in Action Season 5 come out?

World in Action Season 5 premiered Tuesday, September 10, 1968 on ITV1.

How many episodes are in World in Action Season 5?

World in Action Season 5 has 34 episodes.

Are new episodes of World in Action Season 5 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

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