Inside Story - Season 2 / Year 1975
Season 2 / Year 1975
Episodes
Z Charlie Four
Two mobile Task Force constables cruise around Blackpool watching and waiting and ready to pounce. Their call-sign is ' Z Charlie Four.'
It is July - the height of the holiday season. The factories of the North have closed down for the Wakes Week Break - and the town is packed with holiday-makers intent on fun, mischief, mayhem or worse.
Waiting for the troublemakers are Bernard Carter and George Haywood of the Lancashire Police, and in this frank documentary film about the real Z Cars, there is plenty of trouble.
Marek
Marek Marek was one of many children who undergo a hole-in-the-heart operation. By now this operation is routine, and the vast majority of children make a full recovery. But Marek had a complication, called pulmonary atresia. Tragically the operation was not a success, and soon afterwards, he died.
' Marek' is a film about the courage of a family at a time of crisis, and it has already won the Asian Broadcasting Union prize for its portrayal of the basic humanity which is common to all people.
Liz Thomas
This is the story of a remarkable young English nurse who has made her home in a Saigon slum. Just before the city fell to the Communists last month she was told officially to leave South Vietnam, but she has stayed...
The Company
An actuality account filmed behind closed doors of a company as it faces the ultimate business threat - liquidation.
The second largest contract packers in the British Isles is struggling to keep afloat against a tide of creditors and rising prices. Fighting for survival are its board of five directors-men with their own money and reputations at stake.
This documentary film records, as they happen, the manoeuvres and boardroom dramas that take place as the company desperately attempts to avoid the fate of the 4,000 other companies that have gone bust this year.
Mini
Michael 'Mini' Cooper, 11 years old, is too dangerous to be allowed his freedom. His history of delinquency includes two attempts to burn down his own home, knowing his father to be inside. One of the thousands of children in care of the local authority, Mini waits in a high security wing at the Aycliffe Assessment Centre near Darlington for a decision on what is to happen to him. That decision is reached after a series of deep probings into his mind-a decision that is as distressing to the parents as it is to the boy.
Ambassador
An exclusive behind-the-scenes film about Elliot Richardson, US Ambassador to Great Britain-an American who is suddenly the focus of intense speculation.
In the last three weeks White House-watchers have been asking the question ' Is Richardson the next Vice-President? Or the new Doctor Kissinger? '
Many were surprised when Elliot Richardson - one of the few major US politicians to emerge with credit from Watergate - accepted the post of United States Ambassador in London. Now after only nine months in the job he is leaving to become President Ford's Secretary of Commerce. But 1976 is US election year. Could the former Ambassador to the Court of St James 's be destined for even higher-perhaps the highest - office?
This Inside Story chronicles Elliot Richardson 's first months in Britain as he learns the job of Ambassador in one of the great Chancelleries of Europe. It is a film about the man, the job. the inner workings of the Grosvenor Square Embassy and the London diplomatic scene.
Elliot Richardson - lawyer, academic, fanatical fisherman and dedicated ' doodler' - has held more Cabinet posts than any other American in his country's history. To this distinction, he can now add experience in diplomatic affairs abroad, carrying out the Ambassador's triple role of informing, representing and acting in the interests of America.
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