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The Best Episodes of 40 Minutes Season 6

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 1 - Ten Days in Holloway
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    #1 - Ten Days in Holloway

    S6:E1

    An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 2 - Dancing in the Rain
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    #2 - Dancing in the Rain

    S6:E2

    The glittery world of ballroom dancing - behind the scenes at the World Ballroom Dancing Championships, held this year in Blackpool.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 3 - Rescue
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    #3 - Rescue

    S6:E3

    The lives of the men who make up the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team - a voluntary body of men who help those in difficulty on Ben Nevis and the surrounding mountains.

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  4. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 4 - Olga Goes to Hollywood
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    #4 - Olga Goes to Hollywood

    S6:E4

    In 1978 David Lomax secretly interviewed a Russian couple in Moscow after they had been refused exit visas. They were filmed a year later as they arrived in the West. Now they live in Los Angeles. What price have they paid for their freedom?

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  5. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 5 - The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
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    #5 - The Englishwoman's Wardrobe

    S6:E5

    Angela Huth asks why is it that as a nation, we have such a rotten reputation as dressers? What are we trying to say about ourselves through our appearance? 'Oh not black again, dear,' says Denis - but Margaret Thatcher knows a secret or two about old faithfuls and reliable standbys. Tonight the Prime Minister reveals, for the first time, the inside story of her wardrobe. Selina Scott always wanting 'to look a bit different from everyone else'; the probation officer who last wore a dress when she danced with the Prince of Wales; the bubbly society hostess who seems to wear only party dresses; the housewife with an eye for the 20p bargain with a designer label - these are just some of the extraordinary and ordinary women who unlock their wardrobes and tell all, proving that the only thing in vogue is individuality.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 6 - Special: The Dump
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    #6 - Special: The Dump

    S6:E6

    Plans for dumping nuclear waste in rural Lincolnshire - and how traditionally conservative villagers were aroused to protest against them.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 7 - Botham's Out
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    #7 - Botham's Out

    S6:E7

    England cricket hero Ian Botham at home and at work during his Test Match ban.

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  8. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 8 - The Chosen Few
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    #8 - The Chosen Few

    S6:E8

    The Civil Service Selection Board has never been filmed before. The first of two programmes concentrates on two candidates, one an ex-employee of the Greater London Council, the other a "near miss" of last year.

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  9. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 9 - The Final Board
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    #9 - The Final Board

    S6:E9

    The second film tells of two hopefuls at the last round, one hoping to enter the Foreign Office, the other aiming for the Home Office. Filmed from the points of view of both the candidates and the selectors. The final result is a shock.

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  10. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 10 - Dear Sister
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    #10 - Dear Sister

    S6:E10

    Eight sisters talk frankly and movingly about the complex relationship of sisterhood.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 11 - Just for William
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    #11 - Just for William

    S6:E11

    Ten-year-old William, suffering from leukaemia, undergoes a successful bone marrow transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London

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  12. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 12 - Short Stories
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    #12 - Short Stories

    S6:E12

    The small world of dwarves and midgets.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 13 - Home from the Hill
    8.5/10(36 votes)

    #13 - Home from the Hill

    S6:E13

    Documentary about Colonel Hilary Hook, formerly of the Indian cavalry and leader of extravagant safaris in Kenya. Hook returned home to England after being evicted from his home in the Kenya Hills, and is finding it hard to readjust to the English way of life.

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  14. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 14 - Struggle for Stonebridge
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    #14 - Struggle for Stonebridge

    S6:E14

    Young blacks in deprived Brent struggle for a community centre in a bus garage.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 15 - Stirring Stuff
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    #15 - Stirring Stuff

    S6:E15

    Tea, Britain's national beverage - and the ladies who stir it.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 16 - Do You Still Love Me?
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    #16 - Do You Still Love Me?

    S6:E16

    Uneasy relationships between step-parents and step-children.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 17 - A Cabinet of Curiosities
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    #17 - A Cabinet of Curiosities

    S6:E17

    Lucinda Lambton reveals strange and amusing tales from the dusty corners of museums.

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  18. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 18 - Bad Blood
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    #18 - Bad Blood

    S6:E18

    The annual re-union of thousands of bikers in South Dakota.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 19 - Fire!
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    #19 - Fire!

    S6:E19

    Kingston-upon-Hull (Yorks.) fire station in action.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 20 - The Quest for Sergeant Miller
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    #20 - The Quest for Sergeant Miller

    S6:E20

    The son of a wartime aviator traces his father's remarkable survival and escape in France.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 21 - House of Spirits
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    #21 - House of Spirits

    S6:E21

    Spiritualists in London's Belgravia communing with "the other side".

    Director:Unknown
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  22. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 22 - A New Girl
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    #22 - A New Girl

    S6:E22

    Moral problems facing a mother who has taken a pregnancy drug and whose child has suffered.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 23 - Fly Me
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    #23 - Fly Me

    S6:E23

    The training of British Airways hostesses and cabin crew.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 24 - The Mighty Leek
    7.4/10(6 votes)

    #24 - The Mighty Leek

    S6:E24

    World championship competitive leek-growing in the North-East of England - with dirty deeds in the greenhouses.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. 40 Minutes Season 6 Episode 25 - Troublesome People
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    #25 - Troublesome People

    S6:E25

    Caroline Moorehead inquires if pacifists have ever achieved anything over the years.

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Ten Days in Holloway" is the best rated episode of "40 Minutes" season 6. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/9/1986. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Dancing in the Rain".