Dispatches
Season 3
Episodes
1. Return to Year Zero?
Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.
2. Gorbachev's Asylums
Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".
3. Cooking the Books
Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.
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.
5. Buckets of Money
Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.
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.
7. Afghan
A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.
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.
9. The Case of 'F'
10. The Return of the Death Squads
11. Burma - Dying for Democracy
12. Voices From Long Larten
13. Young, Homeless and Broke
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.
15. Carry on Flying
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.
17. Dispatches (26/04/1989)
18. A Suitable Case for Treatment
19. The Sins of the Fathers
20. Not What the Doctor Ordered
Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health
21. Warlord of Kayan
22. The Ultimate Blasphemy
23. Fit as a Fiddle
24. Empire of the Sun
25. Year of the Locust
26. A State of Decay
27. Terror Island
28. The Spanish Connection
29. The Day of the Technopath
30. No, Prime Minister
31. The Undoing of Edwina
32. Mission Impossible
33. In the Coal Hole
34. The False Confession File
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.
36. Twelve Days in November
Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.