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Watching: Weekend World

0.0•1972-10-01•17 Seasons
Season 12
Episode 17

Seasons

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Episodes

EP 1
The Resolute Approach - An Election Winner?
EP 2
The Prime Minister - The Resolute Approach
EP 3
Devaluing the Pound - A Dangerous Remedy?
EP 4
The Water Strike - Compromise or Chaos?
EP 5
The Missile Debate - America Puts Its Case
EP 6
The Missile Debate - Heseltine Replies
EP 7
The Missile Debate - The Case Against Cruise
EP 8
After Bermondsey - Will Foot Survive?
EP 9
The Middle East - New Hope for Peace?
EP 10
After the Miners' Ballot - What Future for the Unions?
EP 11
Beyond the Budget - A Last Recovery?
EP 12
Defeat at Darlington - Dividing the Alliance?
EP 13
The Missiles Deadlock - What Hope for a Deal?
EP 14
Power to the Police - A Threat to Liberty?
EP 15
The Alliance and the Election - Can Steel Save the Day?
EP 16
The World Economy - On the Road to Recovery?
EP 17
The Chequers Decision - An Election in June?
EP 18
The General Election - Can the Tories Lose?
EP 19
The Alliance and the Election - Jenkins Sets His Sights
EP 20
Labour Facing Defeat - Can Foot Turn the Tide?
EP 21
A Thatcher Victory - What Kind of Britain?
EP 22
Labour Humiliated - Can It Recover?
EP 23
The Liberals and the Alliance - Steel Takes the Strain
EP 24
War in Lebanon - Dividing the West?
EP 25
Labour's New Leader - Can He Save the Party?
EP 26
Public Spending - How Deep the Cuts?
EP 27
The Fall of Parkinson - The Testing of Thatcher
EP 28
The Health Service - Its Future Assured?
EP 29
The Grenada Invasion - Straining the Ties?
EP 30
Northern Ireland - The Way Forward?
EP 31
The Middle East - Close to the Brink
EP 32
Lawson's Recovery Plan - Fading from View?
EP 33
The Newspaper Dispute - Cue for Confrontation?
EP 34
Europe's Future - The Crisis Summit
EP 35
Conflict Over Cruise - The Challenge to Heseltine
EP 36
Capping the Rates - Jenkin Joins Battle

Overview

Weekend World was a British television political series, made by London Weekend Television and broadcast from 1972 to 1988. Created by John Birt not long after he moved to LWT, the series was broadcast on the ITV network at lunchtimes on Sundays. Produced by Nick Elliott and David Elstein, it began by mirroring CBS's "60 Minutes" featuring several stories each week but gradually devolved into a show that featured a forensic interview with a major political figure each week. It was presented by Peter Jay initially when first broadcast in 1972, but was best-remembered for being anchored by former Labour MP Brian Walden between 1977 and 1986. Conservative MP Matthew Parris took over in 1986, resigning his seat, and presented the programme until the series ended in 1988.