Dispatches - Season 3

1. Return to Year Zero?

Aired: 1/4/1989

Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.

2. Gorbachev's Asylums

Aired: 1/11/1989

Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".

3. Cooking the Books

Aired: 1/18/1989

Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.

4. The Spy Who Broke the Code

Aired: 1/25/1989

Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.

5. Buckets of Money

Aired: 2/1/1989

Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.

6. The Copper Seven Story

Aired: 2/8/1989

Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.

7. Afghan

Aired: 2/15/1989

A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.

8. The Toxic Trail

Aired: 2/22/1989

Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.

9. The Case of 'F'

Aired: 3/1/1989

10. The Return of the Death Squads

Aired: 3/8/1989

11. Burma - Dying for Democracy

Aired: 3/15/1989

12. Voices From Long Larten

Aired: 3/22/1989

13. Young, Homeless and Broke

Aired: 3/29/1989

14. Chico

Aired: 4/5/1989

A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

15. Carry on Flying

Aired: 4/12/1989

16. The Most Neglected Crime

Aired: 4/19/1989

Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.

17. Dispatches (26/04/1989)

Aired: 4/26/1989

18. A Suitable Case for Treatment

Aired: 5/3/1989

19. The Sins of the Fathers

Aired: 5/10/1989

20. Not What the Doctor Ordered

Aired: 5/17/1989

Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health

21. Warlord of Kayan

Aired: 5/24/1989

22. The Ultimate Blasphemy

Aired: 5/31/1989

23. Fit as a Fiddle

Aired: 6/7/1989

24. Empire of the Sun

Aired: 6/14/1989

25. Year of the Locust

Aired: 6/21/1989

26. A State of Decay

Aired: 6/28/1989

27. Terror Island

Aired: 7/5/1989

28. The Spanish Connection

Aired: 10/4/1989

29. The Day of the Technopath

Aired: 10/11/1989

30. No, Prime Minister

Aired: 10/18/1989

31. The Undoing of Edwina

Aired: 10/25/1989

32. Mission Impossible

Aired: 11/1/1989

33. In the Coal Hole

Aired: 11/8/1989

34. The False Confession File

Aired: 11/15/1989

35. Hungarians Not Comrades

Aired: 11/22/1989

Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.

36. Twelve Days in November

Aired: 11/29/1989

Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.

37. Licence to Kill

Aired: 12/6/1989

38. Privatising Poland

Aired: 12/13/1989

39. Road to Damascus

Aired: 12/20/1989