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World in Action

TV series / 1963

World in Action

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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 …

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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.

The seasons

Season 1 Season 1 1963 · 23 episodes Season details

Jan. 1, 1963

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Season 2 Season 2 1963 · 35 episodes Season details

Sept. 11, 1963

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Season 3 Season 3 1964 · 27 episodes Season details

Sept. 15, 1964

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Season 4 Season 4 1967 · 51 episodes Season details

July 3, 1967

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Season 5 Season 5 1968 · 34 episodes Season details

Sept. 10, 1968

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Season 6 Season 6 1969 · 38 episodes Season details

Sept. 8, 1969

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Season 7 Season 7 1970 · 43 episodes Season details

Sept. 21, 1970

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Season 8 Season 8 1971 · 37 episodes Season details

Sept. 6, 1971

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Season 9 Season 9 1972 · 38 episodes Season details

Sept. 11, 1972

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Season 10 Season 10 1973 · 38 episodes Season details

Sept. 10, 1973

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Season 11 Season 11 1974 · 40 episodes Season details

Sept. 2, 1974

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Season 12 Season 12 1975 · 42 episodes Season details

Sept. 8, 1975

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Season 13 Season 13 1976 · 39 episodes Season details

Sept. 27, 1976

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Season 14 Season 14 1977 · 34 episodes Season details

Sept. 26, 1977

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Season 15 Season 15 1978 · 36 episodes Season details

Oct. 9, 1978

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Season 16 Season 16 1980 · 30 episodes Season details

Jan. 7, 1980

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Season 17 Season 17 1980 · 41 episodes Season details

Oct. 13, 1980

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Season 18 Season 18 1981 · 44 episodes Season details

Oct. 19, 1981

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Season 19 Season 19 1982 · 35 episodes Season details

Oct. 25, 1982

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Season 20 Season 20 1983 · 36 episodes Season details

Oct. 10, 1983

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Season 21 Season 21 1984 · 39 episodes Season details

Sept. 24, 1984

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Season 22 Season 22 1985 · 38 episodes Season details

Sept. 23, 1985

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Season 23 Season 23 1986 · 38 episodes Season details

Sept. 22, 1986

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Season 24 Season 24 1987 · 40 episodes Season details

Sept. 21, 1987

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Season 25 Season 25 1988 · 41 episodes Season details

Sept. 19, 1988

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Season 26 Season 26 1989 · 38 episodes Season details

Sept. 25, 1989

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Season 27 Season 27 1990 · 41 episodes Season details

Sept. 24, 1990

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Season 28 Season 28 1991 · 39 episodes Season details

Sept. 23, 1991

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Season 29 Season 29 1992 · 40 episodes Season details

Sept. 21, 1992

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Season 30 Season 30 1993 · 25 episodes Season details

Sept. 27, 1993

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Season 31 Season 31 1994 · 38 episodes Season details

July 11, 1994

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Season 32 Season 32 1995 · 48 episodes Season details

July 10, 1995

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Season 33 Season 33 1996 · 37 episodes Season details

Sept. 2, 1996

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Season 34 Season 34 1997 · 33 episodes Season details

Sept. 8, 1997

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Season 35 Season 35 1998 · 18 episodes Season details

July 27, 1998

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Special episodes

Specials 1 episode Season details

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Cast

David Owen Ian Paisley Tony Benn Margaret Thatcher Idi Amin Neil Kinnock Harold Wilson Edward Heath Merlyn Rees Gerry Adams Clive Jenkins Richard Crossman

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Michael Heseltine Stephen Dorrell Michael Parkinson Tariq Ali Gus Macdonald John Pilger Garret Fitzgerald Jack Straw Leon Brittan Arthur Scargill Anatoly Sharansky Tony Wilson Margaret Beckett Roy Hattersley Bernadette Devlin Gerry Fitt Michael Foot Ken Clarke Matthew Parris Ken Livingstone Edwina Currie Norman Tebbit John Hume Michael Mates Cecil Parkinson Richard Branson Jonathan Aitken Tony Banks Mick Jagger Pierre Balmain Alistair Cooke Barry Goldwater William Rees-Mogg Fidel Castro Richard Nixon Barbara Castle Anthony Farrar-Hockley Seán Mac Stíofáin L. Fletcher Prouty Philip Agee E. Howard Hunt Joe Ashton Malcolm Rifkind Denis Healey John Tyndall Robin Cook John Nott Alan Clark David Steel Francis Pym Norman Fowler John Z. DeLorean Walter Cronkite Douglas Hurd Nelson Mandela Clare Short Bob Geldof Roy Jenkins Derek Hatton John Prescott Muammar Gaddafi Kurt Waldheim Andrew Jennings Paddy Hill Bruce Kent Brian Wilson Simon Heffer John Major

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