Whicker's World
Whicker's World is an award-winning British television documentary series that ran from 1958 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker. Originally a segment on the BBC's Tonight programme in 1958, Whicker's World became a fully-fledged television series in its own right in the 1960s. The series was first shown by the BBC until 1968, and then by ITV from 1969 to 1983, when it was produced by Yorkshire Television, in which Whicker himself was a shareholder. The series returned to the BBC in 1984, and to ITV again in 1992.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Beauty Queens
13-11-1965A week before the Miss World contest, Alan Whicker talks to the contestants, asking about their their personal lives and ambitions, and their reasons for entering the contest.
- Ep 2
2.Papa Doc -The Black Sheep
17-06-1969Hatti was the world's first black republic, ruled from 1957 to 1971 by 'President For Life' Dr Francis Duvalier - Papa Doc. Whicker meets Papa Doc in his Presidential Palace at Por...
- Ep 3
3.Whicker In Stroessner's Paraguay - The Last Dictator
07-04-1970Alan Whicker comes face-to-face with the last of South America's old style dictators - Don Alfredo Stroessner who has been absolute ruler of Paraguay for 19 years. One Paraguayan i...
- Ep 4
4.Harold Robbins - I'm The World's Greatest Writer
13-12-1971Harold Robbins, 56 and five times married, is the orphan who became the world's best paid writer. In New York he takes Alan Whicker round the Devil's Kitchen district of his youth....
- Ep 5
5.I'd Like To Think I'm Nearer To God Than Frankenstein
13-09-1973In California they change faces as casually as we change clothes and cosmetic surgery is no longer only for the rich and famous. Whicker meets plastic surgeon Kurt Wagner and his w...
- Ep 6
6.I Haven't Taken My Own Shoes Off For 45 Years
14-09-1976Whicker arrives in Penang for the island's spectacular Thalpusam festival, where entranced pilgrims pierce themselves with giant spikes. He also meets a Scottish doctor still livin...
- Ep 7
7.He's Been Hunted All His Life - Now He's Going To Rest In Peace
05-10-1977Butch Cassidy's sister Lula is alive and well and living in Utah, aged 94 and with a fund of fascinating stories. In Salt Lake City Whicker drives the hydrogen car, learns from Din...
- Ep 8
8.I Wear A Uniform And Pack A Gun But I'm Still A Woman
17-10-1978Part 1 - Whicker undertakes a risky assignment, hurtling around San Francisco in the back of a police car. The cops are women, fully armed and determined to prove they are worthy...
- Ep 9
9.If A Cop Wiggled Around With Pink Hair And A Limp Wrist It Would Discredit The Department
14-04-1980Part 2 - San Francisco's 150,000 homosexuals are the city's largest unofficial minority. The Police Department has become the first in the US to knowingly recruit gay officers. Wh...
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