Episode guide
Dispatches: 1989
39 episodes · premiered Jan 4, 1989
TMDB has no overview for this season.
- Episode 1: Return to Year Zero? Jan 4, 1989 · 45m Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.
- Episode 2: Gorbachev's Asylums Jan 11, 1989 · 45m Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".
- Episode 3: Cooking the Books Jan 18, 1989 · 45m Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.
- Episode 4: The Spy Who Broke the Code Jan 25, 1989 · 45m Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.
- Episode 5: Buckets of Money Feb 1, 1989 · 45m Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.
- Episode 6: The Copper Seven Story Feb 8, 1989 · 45m 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.
- Episode 7: Afghan Feb 15, 1989 · 45m A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.
- Episode 8: The Toxic Trail Feb 22, 1989 · 45m 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.
- Episode 9: The Case of 'F' Mar 1, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 10: The Return of the Death Squads Mar 8, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 11: Burma - Dying for Democracy Mar 15, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 12: Voices From Long Larten Mar 22, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 13: Young, Homeless and Broke Mar 29, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 14: Chico Apr 5, 1989 · 45m A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
- Episode 15: Carry on Flying Apr 12, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 16: The Most Neglected Crime Apr 19, 1989 · 45m 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.
- Episode 17: Dispatches (26/04/1989) Apr 26, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 18: A Suitable Case for Treatment May 3, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 19: The Sins of the Fathers May 10, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 20: Not What the Doctor Ordered May 17, 1989 · 45m Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health
- Episode 21: Warlord of Kayan May 24, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 22: The Ultimate Blasphemy May 31, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 23: Fit as a Fiddle Jun 7, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 24: Empire of the Sun Jun 14, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 25: Year of the Locust Jun 21, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 26: A State of Decay Jun 28, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 27: Terror Island Jul 5, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 28: The Spanish Connection Oct 4, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 29: The Day of the Technopath Oct 11, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 30: No, Prime Minister Oct 18, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 31: The Undoing of Edwina Oct 25, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 32: Mission Impossible Nov 1, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 33: In the Coal Hole Nov 8, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 34: The False Confession File Nov 15, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 35: Hungarians Not Comrades Nov 22, 1989 · 45m Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.
- Episode 36: Twelve Days in November Nov 29, 1989 · 45m Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.
- Episode 37: Licence to Kill Dec 6, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 38: Privatising Poland Dec 13, 1989 · 45m
- Episode 39: Road to Damascus Dec 20, 1989 · 45m