World in Action: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of World in Action Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Give Us the Works
Sep 10, 1968
An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.
February's Children
Sep 23, 1968
An investigation into 7 children (expelled from Kenya) who have to live on their own in the UK as their parents cannot join them due to new laws.
New Drugs, Same Needle
Oct 7, 1968
The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.
A Score to Settle
Oct 14, 1968
Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.
Backs to the Wall
Oct 21, 1968
A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.
A City Stumbles
Nov 4, 1968
A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.
An Outbreak of Peace?
Nov 18, 1968
With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.
A Buyer's Market
Nov 25, 1968
The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.
The Trail of the Vanishing Voters
Dec 9, 1968
World in Action tries to trace the overseas voters in Britain who have supposedly voted for The People's National Congress Party in Guyana's election.
The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom
Dec 16, 1968
A profile of Laos, considered the most unproductive country in the world but rich and financially stable through its passing of opium products and dodgy gold.
First Class Delivery
Dec 23, 1968
The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.
Sorry, Nothing Doing
Dec 30, 1968
Update on the subjects of three notable previous films in the series, the gypsies of An Outlaw's Life (1968), the large family of The Born Losers (1967), and the elderly ladies of
Death of a Student
Feb 3, 1969
The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.
Like Other Men
Feb 10, 1969
Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.
Where People Don't Matter
Mar 10, 1969
The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.
A Case to Answer
Mar 17, 1969
Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.
The Owners and the Owned
Apr 14, 1969
Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.
Inside Out
Apr 21, 1969
A revolutionary new look at how mental patients should be treated, allowing them out into the wider world, and distancing as much as possible from Victorian lunatic asylums.
Two Men in Two Tin Huts
May 12, 1969
Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.