Season 6

27 episodes

E1 Ten Days in Holloway

1986-10-0940 min

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

E2 Dancing in the Rain

1986-10-1640 min

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

E3 Rescue

1986-10-2340 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.

E4 Olga Goes to Hollywood

1986-10-3040 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?

E5 The Englishwoman's Wardrobe

1986-11-2040 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.

E6 Special: The Dump

1986-11-2540 min

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

E7 Botham's Out

1986-11-2740 min

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

E8 The Chosen Few

1986-12-0440 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.

E9 The Final Board

1986-12-1140 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.

E10 Dear Sister

1986-12-1840 min

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

E11 Just for William

1987-01-0840 min

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

E12 Short Stories

1987-01-1540 min

The small world of dwarves and midgets.

E13 Home from the Hill

1987-01-2240 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.