Modern Times
Modern Times
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Modern Times

9.0 / 10
1995
12 seasons
107 episodes
Documentary

Documentaries showing faces and places that make up the way we live today.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Mad About the Boy

    22-02-199560m

    Documentary following the story of 52 year old Carol Spencer who went on holiday to the Gambia met Lamain Marong, who was 27 and decided to marry him within two weeks of their firs...

  • Ep 2

    2.Cheating Hearts

    01-03-1995

    Mike Emilianow , New York private eye, has a mixed bag of clients, but they all share one overwhelming doubt: they are in love with someone they do not completely trust. For a few...

  • Ep 3

    3.Harley Street

    08-03-1995

    London's Harley Street is a medical marketplace offering everything from plastic surgery to life-saving cures. More than 1,000 doctors are packed into the cramped elegance of priva...

  • Ep 4

    4.Death on Request

    15-03-1995

    The first television portrayal of a mercy killing. Made in Holland, where euthanasia is permitted, it tells the story of a 62-year-old patient with an incurable illness, his wife,...

  • Ep 5

    5.Weekenders

    22-03-1995

    What is the weekend country cottage - a status symbol, a bolt-hole, a nightmare? Seven contrasting families tell of their on-off love affair with their rural retreat, a place to wh...

  • Ep 6

    6.Goodbye, Dear Friend

    29-03-1995

    Are we odd, foolish or maladjusted when we grieve inconsolably at the death of a much-loved pet? This documentary talks to Janet Thomas , a vet who specialises in understanding pet...

  • Ep 7

    7.Open Prison

    05-04-1995

    This documentary goes inside the so-called "holiday camp" of Britain's penal system - Ford Prison, the low-security jail at Arundel, West Sussex - and discovers a two-tier system.

  • Ep 8

    8.The Fame Game

    12-04-1995

    Fly on the wall showing life behind the scenes with Liz Brewer and her high profile clients. Quote Liz "Nothing happens by accident, there's always someone behind the scenes pullin...

  • Ep 9

    9.Billy - A Violent Mind

    19-04-1995

    A series about the way we live now. Billy, a former soldier in Northern Ireland and one-time Liverpool gangster, is obsessed by a fear of harming people. Can 12 2 weeks at the Maud...

  • Ep 10

    10.Channel Wars

    26-04-1995

    The Channel tunnel has been plagued by problems. Now, as the battle hots up between Eurotunnel and P&0 Ferries for cross-Channel business, Modern Times takes a look behind the scen...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Tribe

    03-05-1995

    This film records the anti-Establishment lifestyle of the Rainbow Tribe and their confrontations with the police.

  • Ep 12

    12.Club Expat

    10-05-1995

    A look at the luxurious lifestyles and aspirations of the 20,000 members of the British community in Dubai, the most liberal of the oil-rich Gulf states.

  • Ep 13

    13.Playing God

    17-05-1995

    In the last programme of the series, a documentary team is allowed inside the secret world of adoption as two social workers make their decisions.

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