40 Minutes Season 6

40 Minutes - Season 6

1986 • 27 episodes

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Oct 09, 1986

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27 episodes
Ten Days in Holloway
Episode 1

Ten Days in Holloway

Episode 1 • Oct 09, 1986

An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.

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Dancing in the Rain
Episode 2

Dancing in the Rain

Episode 2 • Oct 16, 1986

The glittery world of ballroom dancing - behind the scenes at the World Ballroom Dancing Championships, held this year in Blackpool.

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Rescue
Episode 3

Rescue

Episode 3 • Oct 23, 1986

The lives of the men who make up the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team - a voluntary body of men who help those in difficulty on Ben Nevis and the surrounding mountains.

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Olga Goes to Hollywood
Episode 4

Olga Goes to Hollywood

Episode 4 • Oct 30, 1986

In 1978 David Lomax secretly interviewed a Russian couple in Moscow after they had been refused exit visas. They were filmed a year later as they arrived in the West. Now they live in Los Angeles. What price have they paid for their freedom?

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The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
Episode 5

The Englishwoman's Wardrobe

Episode 5 • Nov 20, 1986

Angela Huth asks why is it that as a nation, we have such a rotten reputation as dressers? What are we trying to say about ourselves through our appearance? 'Oh not black again, dear,' says Denis - but Margaret Thatcher knows a secret or two about old faithfuls and reliable standbys. Tonight the Prime Minister reveals, for the first time, the inside story of her wardrobe. Selina Scott always wanting 'to look a bit different from everyone else'; the probation officer who last wore a dress when she danced with the Prince of Wales; the bubbly society hostess who seems to wear only party dresses; the housewife with an eye for the 20p bargain with a designer label - these are just some of the extraordinary and ordinary women who unlock their wardrobes and tell all, proving that the only thing in vogue is individuality.

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Special: The Dump
Episode 6

Special: The Dump

Episode 6 • Nov 25, 1986

Plans for dumping nuclear waste in rural Lincolnshire - and how traditionally conservative villagers were aroused to protest against them.

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Botham's Out
Episode 7

Botham's Out

Episode 7 • Nov 27, 1986

England cricket hero Ian Botham at home and at work during his Test Match ban.

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The Chosen Few
Episode 8

The Chosen Few

Episode 8 • Dec 04, 1986

The Civil Service Selection Board has never been filmed before. The first of two programmes concentrates on two candidates, one an ex-employee of the Greater London Council, the other a "near miss" of last year.

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The Final Board
Episode 9

The Final Board

Episode 9 • Dec 11, 1986

The second film tells of two hopefuls at the last round, one hoping to enter the Foreign Office, the other aiming for the Home Office. Filmed from the points of view of both the candidates and the selectors. The final result is a shock.

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Dear Sister
Episode 10

Dear Sister

Episode 10 • Dec 18, 1986

Eight sisters talk frankly and movingly about the complex relationship of sisterhood.

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Just for William
Episode 11

Just for William

Episode 11 • Jan 08, 1987

Ten-year-old William, suffering from leukaemia, undergoes a successful bone marrow transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London

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Short Stories
Episode 12

Short Stories

Episode 12 • Jan 15, 1987

The small world of dwarves and midgets.

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Home from the Hill
Episode 13

Home from the Hill

Episode 13 • Jan 22, 1987

Documentary about Colonel Hilary Hook, formerly of the Indian cavalry and leader of extravagant safaris in Kenya. Hook returned home to England after being evicted from his home in the Kenya Hills, and is finding it hard to readjust to the English way of life.

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Struggle for Stonebridge
Episode 14

Struggle for Stonebridge

Episode 14 • Jan 29, 1987

Young blacks in deprived Brent struggle for a community centre in a bus garage.

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Stirring Stuff
Episode 15

Stirring Stuff

Episode 15 • Feb 05, 1987

Tea, Britain's national beverage - and the ladies who stir it.

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Do You Still Love Me?
Episode 16

Do You Still Love Me?

Episode 16 • Feb 12, 1987

Uneasy relationships between step-parents and step-children.

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A Cabinet of Curiosities
Episode 17

A Cabinet of Curiosities

Episode 17 • Feb 19, 1987

Lucinda Lambton reveals strange and amusing tales from the dusty corners of museums.

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Bad Blood
Episode 18

Bad Blood

Episode 18 • Feb 26, 1987

The annual re-union of thousands of bikers in South Dakota.

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Fire!
Episode 19

Fire!

Episode 19 • Mar 05, 1987

Kingston-upon-Hull (Yorks.) fire station in action.

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The Quest for Sergeant Miller
Episode 20

The Quest for Sergeant Miller

Episode 20 • Mar 12, 1987

The son of a wartime aviator traces his father's remarkable survival and escape in France.

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House of Spirits
Episode 21

House of Spirits

Episode 21 • Mar 19, 1987

Spiritualists in London's Belgravia communing with "the other side".

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A New Girl
Episode 22

A New Girl

Episode 22 • Mar 26, 1987

Moral problems facing a mother who has taken a pregnancy drug and whose child has suffered.

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Fly Me
Episode 23

Fly Me

Episode 23 • Apr 02, 1987

The training of British Airways hostesses and cabin crew.

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The Mighty Leek
Episode 24

The Mighty Leek

Episode 24 • Apr 09, 1987

World championship competitive leek-growing in the North-East of England - with dirty deeds in the greenhouses.

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Troublesome People
Episode 25

Troublesome People

Episode 25 • Apr 16, 1987

Caroline Moorehead inquires if pacifists have ever achieved anything over the years.

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Street Girls
Episode 26

Street Girls

Episode 26 • Apr 23, 1987

Child and juvenile prostitutes in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

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Bombay Hotel
Episode 27

Bombay Hotel

Episode 27 • Apr 30, 1987

Upstairs and downstairs at the famous Taj Mahal Hotel - a luxurious establishment surrounded by poverty.

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