40 Minutes
40 Minutes: Season 6

Air Date

October 9, 1986

Episodes

27 episodes

40 Minutes

Season 6

Episodes

1. Ten Days in Holloway

October 9, 1986
40 min

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

2. Dancing in the Rain

October 16, 1986
40 min

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

3. Rescue

October 23, 1986
40 min

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.

4. Olga Goes to Hollywood

October 30, 1986
40 min

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?

5. The Englishwoman's Wardrobe

November 20, 1986
40 min

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.

6. Special: The Dump

November 25, 1986
40 min

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

7. Botham's Out

November 27, 1986
40 min

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

8. The Chosen Few

December 4, 1986
40 min

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.

9. The Final Board

December 11, 1986
40 min

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.

10. Dear Sister

December 18, 1986
40 min

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

11. Just for William

January 8, 1987
40 min

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

12. Short Stories

January 15, 1987
40 min

The small world of dwarves and midgets.

13. Home from the Hill

January 22, 1987
40 min

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.

14. Struggle for Stonebridge

January 29, 1987
40 min

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

15. Stirring Stuff

February 5, 1987
40 min

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

16. Do You Still Love Me?

February 12, 1987
40 min

Uneasy relationships between step-parents and step-children.

17. A Cabinet of Curiosities

February 19, 1987
40 min

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

18. Bad Blood

February 26, 1987
40 min

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

19. Fire!

March 5, 1987
40 min

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

20. The Quest for Sergeant Miller

March 12, 1987
40 min

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

21. House of Spirits

March 19, 1987
40 min

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

22. A New Girl

March 26, 1987
40 min

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

23. Fly Me

April 2, 1987
40 min

The training of British Airways hostesses and cabin crew.

24. The Mighty Leek

April 9, 1987
40 min

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

25. Troublesome People

April 16, 1987
40 min

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

26. Street Girls

April 23, 1987
40 min

Child and juvenile prostitutes in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

27. Bombay Hotel

April 30, 1987
40 min

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

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