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The Best Episodes of Panorama Season 33

Every episode of Panorama Season 33 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Panorama Season 33!

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    Panorama Season 33 Episode 1 - Episode 1
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    #1 - Episode 1

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    Back on Speaking Terms After deep freeze United States and Soviet Union are talking again in Geneva to try to halt nuclear arms race.

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  2. Panorama Season 33 Episode 2 - Episode 2
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  3. Panorama Season 33 Episode 3 - The Politics of Plenty
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    #3 - The Politics of Plenty

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    Starvation and drought have seized the conscience of the West: millions of pounds have been raised by ordinary people for the relief of the worst hit areas. But governments have followed different priorities and different objectives. While Marxist Ethiopia has received little Western aid, across the border in Kenya it's another story: billions of dollars have poured into a country whose government favours the West. But even then, there's a price to be paid. Panorama reports on the problems of the country the Americans have called 'the shining star of Africa'.

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  4. Panorama Season 33 Episode 4 - No University for You?
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    #4 - No University for You?

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    Nearly half-a-million people already born will be denied the university place they could have had before the Government cuts. The financial squeeze has forced the universities to cut student numbers to save money for research. And now the students' own grants are being cut. Richard Lindley reports as would-be graduates begin a campaign against moves to make them pay for their own higher education.

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  5. Panorama Season 33 Episode 5 - How Much Longer?
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    #5 - How Much Longer?

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    Talks between the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Coal Board have reached stalemate. As official figures report more and more miners breaking the strike and returning to work, 'Panorama' asks strikers in Barnsley how long they believe they can continue. In the studio, National Union of Mineworkers president Arthur Scargill reaffirms his concerns over media representations of his union members.

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  6. Panorama Season 33 Episode 6 - Jobs - What's the Answer?
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    #6 - Jobs - What's the Answer?

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    As unemployment keeps on rising the demands are growing again for the Government to spend more money creating jobs. Some Tory mps have joined voices urging that jobs could be found in repairing Britain's crumbling roads, sewers, and public buildings. But Mrs Thatcher and her ministers are adamant that the only way to get 'real jobs' is their strategy to cut taxes in next month's Budget

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  7. Panorama Season 33 Episode 7 - Bad Deal for Britain
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    #7 - Bad Deal for Britain

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    With Tom Mangold Britain's plan to deploy 11 flying radar stations to protect us against surprise attack has gone terribly wrong. The project will be at least five years late; it will cost nearly twice as much as planned - over one billion pounds -and the system still doesn't work effectively. Tom Mangold investigates what's gone wrong with Nimrod, the world's most expensive plane, and reveals startling new details of the defence project which is fast turning into a Bad Deal for Britain.

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  8. Panorama Season 33 Episode 8 - Comrade Bob's Election
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    #8 - Comrade Bob's Election

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    Next month Zimbabwe goes to the polls for the first time since Independence in 1980. Prime Minister Robert Mugabe -known as Comrade Bob - not only wants to win: he also wants popular approval to set up a one-party Marxist state. His opponents are fighting for their political lives amid tribal and regional conflict while the country's remaining whites look on with apprehension.

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  9. Panorama Season 33 Episode 9 - Coal's Unsettled Future
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    #9 - Coal's Unsettled Future

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    What is the future of Britain's mining industry in light of the end of the miners' strike? Donald MacCormick chairs a discussion between the miners and townspeople of Eckington from the Town Hall. With views on returning to work, further strike action, attitudes to miners who broke the strike, fears of intimidation to working miners, and relationships within the town.

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  10. Panorama Season 33 Episode 10 - No Asylum?
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    #10 - No Asylum?

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    In night shelters and seedy guesthouses, some of the hundreds of mental patients discharged each year from hospital struggle against despair and neglect. Care in the community has been the great hope for the mentally ill, but with limited resources outside, has the policy of running down the old asylums gone too far too fast?

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  11. Panorama Season 33 Episode 11 - Episode 11
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  12. Panorama Season 33 Episode 12 - The Jewish Pawns in Russia's Game
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    #12 - The Jewish Pawns in Russia's Game

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    Inna Begun has not seen her husband Yosif, a prisoner in a Soviet labour camp for two years. She's just started a hunger strike in protest. Tens of thousands of Russian Jews are desperate to leave the Soviet Union, but only a tiny handful are being allowed to go. Cut off from their families abroad, those left behind are harassed by the KGB. Many have been sacked from their jobs, others like Yosif Begun have been jailed. In a report filmed secretly in Moscow and Leningrad Richard Lindley talks to the 'refuseniks' who fear that they are now Soviet pawns in the superpower game

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  13. Panorama Season 33 Episode 13 - Men of Honour
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    #13 - Men of Honour

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    One of the most powerful Mafia Godfathers has broken the organisation's code of silence: omerta. The confession of Tommasso Buscetta gives a unique insight into Mafia operations in Italy and the United States. His evidence has already led to over 100 arrests. Martin Young reports on the organisation which included the world's biggest drugs racket and on the secret operations of the FBI which show how a billion dollars worth of narcotics were smuggled into America. In Italy, Buscetta reveals the links between organised crime and respectable politicians. On both sides of the Atlantic it is being hailed as a historic breakthrough in the battle against the Mafia - the so-called Men of Honour.

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  14. Panorama Season 33 Episode 14 - Protecting the Unborn Child?
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    #14 - Protecting the Unborn Child?

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    Enoch Powell 's Bill to ban research on human embryos is racing through Parliament. It's supported by a big majority in the House of Commons and massive petitions from the public. But infertile couples and parents of handicapped children are desperately trying to stop it. They see human embryo research as the only hope for avoiding human tragedies in the future. Do these ends justify the means? As Parliament reassembles Margaret Jay reports on this crucial debate - where both sides think they are the best protectors of the unborn child.

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  15. Panorama Season 33 Episode 15 - Germany Divided - for Good?
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    #15 - Germany Divided - for Good?

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    As the 40th anniversary of the end of World War D. approaches, Panorama reports on the conflicting emotions of Germans in both parts of their divided nation. In West Germany it will be officially a time of solemn remembrance of the disaster of defeat and the rebirth of democracy. In East Germany the regime will celebrate Soviet liberation from fascism, and the setting up of their Communist state. On both sides of Germany's Iron Curtain Fred Emery talks to Germans of all ages about their views of the war and the division of their people.

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  16. Panorama Season 33 Episode 16 - Episode 16
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    As Israeli Army starts last stage of its pull-out from Lebanon, settlers on Israel's northern border are again building shelters.

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  17. Panorama Season 33 Episode 17 - Deadly Force
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    #17 - Deadly Force

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    When a tube traveller turned on four men he thought were robbing him, and shot them, he also fired one of the most intense debates on crime in America this century. The implications of that one act have continued to reverberate and widen into deeper issues of vigilantism and racism. Tom Mangold rides with TONY IMPERIALE 'S white vigilantes and with the undercover cops in an investigation into the uncomfortable truth now emerging from the case of the 'subway vigilante'

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  18. Panorama Season 33 Episode 18 - Bhopal: The Lingering Tragedy
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    #18 - Bhopal: The Lingering Tragedy

    S33:E18

    Six months ago, at least 2,500 Indians were killed and thousands more injured in the world's worst industrial disaster. After the gas leak at the Union Carbide plant, the people of Bhopal are still trying to rebuild their lives while the company is learning to live with the stigma of the tragedy. On the sidelines, the lawyers and politicians are bickering over questions of blame and compensation. As Nick Clarke reports from Bhopal, there's a sense throughout the chemical industry of 'there but for the grace of God ..."

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  19. Panorama Season 33 Episode 19 - Nicaragua: Seeing Red
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    #19 - Nicaragua: Seeing Red

    S33:E19

    President Reagan sees in Nicaragua a Communist tyranny which threatens the stability of Central America. The US Government back the guerrillas who are fighting to bring down the Sandinista regime and has imposed an economic embargo. Others in the West are more doubtful about the reality of the threat from Nicaragua. David Lomax reports from the front line of the mountain war in Nicaragua and from the US bases across the border in Honduras.

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  20. Panorama Season 33 Episode 20 - Short Sharp Shock
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    #20 - Short Sharp Shock

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    When football hooligans and other young offenders are sentenced by the courts, what sort of punishment do they get? Panorama has spent three weeks behind the walls at New Hall, where the Government has introduced a tougher regime for young prisoners. Philip Tibenham investigates how tough it is in practice, and whether the offenders really can be deterred from further crime.

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  21. Panorama Season 33 Episode 21 - When the Roof Falls In
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    #21 - When the Roof Falls In

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    The number of home owners who can't pay the mortgage is rising sharply. Last year 11,000 families lost their homes when the building societies repossessed them. Millions more live in crumbling houses they can't afford to repair. As people struggle to buy their own homes, Richard Lindley talks to the families and old people who have found home ownership not a boon but a burden — and more than they can bear.

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  22. Panorama Season 33 Episode 22 - Selling Star Wars
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    #22 - Selling Star Wars

    S33:E22

    President Reagan believes his 'Star Wars' defence initiative may end the threat from nuclear weapons. His critics say that the massive research programme could upset the balance of terror with the Soviet Union and make war more likely. Tomorrow Vice-President Bush arrives in London, campaigning for support. Fred Emery reports on the debate, and discovers how scientists and businessmen on both sides of the Atlantic are getting in on the race for the new technology.

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  23. Panorama Season 33 Episode 23 - Episode 23
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    #23 - Episode 23

    S33:E23

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  24. Panorama Season 33 Episode 24 - Family of Spies
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    #24 - Family of Spies

    S33:E24

    In America the biggest spy scandal for decades continues to unravel: already it threatens the security of Britain and the rest of NATO. Three members of the Walker family, and a friend, are accused of betraying to the Russians some of NATO's most sensitive and closely guarded secrets. For 20 years they had access to the vital details of submarine warfare - codes, communications and tactics - central to the nuclear deployments of the West. Tom Mangold reports on the gravity of the revelations for the USA and for Britain, and talks to some of the people involved in the case of the Family of Spies.

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  25. Panorama Season 33 Episode 25 - Doctor in a Hurry
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    #25 - Doctor in a Hurry

    S33:E25

    Asked who she thought would be the next Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher replied 'David Owen '. But how much do we really know about one of the most familiar faces in British politics? Dr Owen's opponents label him arrogant, ambitious, and unprincipled. He claims he's courageous and tough, but tender. At the SDP conference Michael Cockerell presents a revealing profile of the party's leader.

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Season 33 Ratings Summary

"Episode 1" is the best rated episode of "Panorama" season 33. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/7/1985. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2".