40 Minutes
40 Minutes: Season 3

Air Date

October 30, 1983

Episodes

26 episodes

40 Minutes

Season 3

Episodes

1. Mistress

October 30, 1983
40 min

Interviews with three mistresses.

2. Bodyline

November 8, 1983
40 min

The M.C.C. Cricket tour of Australia in 1931 and the controversial tactics of the M.C.C. Captain Douglas Jardine.

3. Something for the Ladies

November 13, 1983
40 min

Mr Universe, Bachelor of the Year and others competitions for men.

4. House of Love

November 20, 1983
40 min

The religious cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

5. Innocent Until Proved Guilty

November 27, 1983
40 min

The remand system in the UK and the lives of untried prisoners.

6. Jail Within a Jail

December 4, 1983
40 min

The maximum security unit at Maidstone Prison.

7. Who's a Pretty Girl, Then?

December 11, 1983
40 min

Finding Miss Pears 1983.

8. Pranks

December 18, 1983
40 min

Professional pranksters and singing telegrams.

9. 1984 Voices in a City

January 5, 1984
40 min

Comparison between life in Orwell's novel and the reality of life in 1984.

10. Health Farm

January 12, 1984
40 min

A week at a health farm.

11. Swiss Finishing School

January 19, 1984
40 min

Three English girls at Institut Villa Pierrefeu in Switzerland.

12. Divorce: Unreasonable Behaviour

January 26, 1984
40 min

The effect of a divorce on a couple and their children

13. Divorce: The Law... and After

February 2, 1984
40 min

How parents' access to children of a broken marriage is determined.

14. The Mating Season

February 9, 1984
40 min

The annual 'crack' at Lisdoonvarna in Ireland visited by a group of Chicagoan women in search of romance.

15. Skiffle

February 16, 1984
40 min

The history of Skiffle and the development of 'home-made' music.

16. Pigeons: Queer Facts

February 23, 1984
40 min

Attitudes to pigeons.

17. Educating Michael

March 1, 1984
40 min

Working class children in assisted places at public schools.

18. Delmelza's Baby

March 8, 1984
40 min

Attitudes in a small Cornish community to two lovers and their baby.

19. A Problem with Sex

March 15, 1984
40 min

The work of the sex therapist.

20. The School on the Hill

March 22, 1984
40 min

Lagan College in Belfast, a school planned for the integration of protestants and Roman Catholics.

21. Animal Antiques

March 29, 1984
40 min

Rare breeds of farm animals.

22. Travelling Hopefully

April 5, 1984
40 min

Professional political lobbyists.

23. Sun City

April 12, 1984
40 min

The African Las Vegas.

24. Bertie and the Bomb

April 19, 1984
40 min

Bertrand Russell and the founding of CND.

25. Oh Alien

April 26, 1984
40 min

How the world would look to a being from another planet.

26. Boycott

May 3, 1984
40 min

The career of cricketer Geoffrey Boycott.

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