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The Best Episodes of Panorama Season 42

Every episode of Panorama Season 42 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Panorama Season 42!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Panorama Season 42 Episode 1 - Nose to Tail
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    #1 - Nose to Tail

    S42:E1

    Will government plans to spend £23 billion on Britain's roads ease traffic jams or encourage more people to take to their cars? Reporter John Penycate talks to people affected by schemes such as the widening of the M25 and M62.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Panorama Season 42 Episode 2 - Current Fears
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    #2 - Current Fears

    S42:E2

    Simon Studholme died of leukaemia in 1992. His bedroom was next to electricity meter and outside house stands an electricity substation.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Panorama Season 42 Episode 3 - For the Sake of the Children
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    #3 - For the Sake of the Children

    S42:E3

    With 1994 designated Year of Family, it is disturbing trends emerging from 1980s show more children than ever will go.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Panorama Season 42 Episode 4 - Battling for Air
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    #4 - Battling for Air

    S42:E4

    Two thousand people die of asthma each year in Britain. The number of sufferers is growing, and blame is being leveled at air pollution.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Panorama Season 42 Episode 5 - Episode 5
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    #5 - Episode 5

    S42:E5

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    Director:Unknown
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  6. Panorama Season 42 Episode 6 - Who's Sorry Now
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    #6 - Who's Sorry Now

    S42:E6

    Five years ago government created personal pensions industry -and a big problem. The government now promises industry's system of "self-regulation" is to be tightened up, but reporter Vivian White reveals that.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Panorama Season 42 Episode 7 - The Sacrifice Zone
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    #7 - The Sacrifice Zone

    S42:E7

    America began to conduct atomic tests at Yucca Flats in Nevada soon after Second World War, and "down-winders" across border in Utah were repeatedly told they were safe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Panorama Season 42 Episode 8 - Truth Is a Difficult Concept
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    #8 - Truth Is a Difficult Concept

    S42:E8

    The Scott Inquiry into exports to Iraq has put inner workings of government on public display as never.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Panorama Season 42 Episode 9 - Breast Cancer
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    #9 - Breast Cancer

    S42:E9

    An investigation into one of the biggest killers of middle-aged women in Britain - breast cancer. The programme reports on how doctors are either unaware of or are apparently ignoring the latest research on treatment.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Panorama Season 42 Episode 10 - The Red Peril
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    #10 - The Red Peril

    S42:E10

    After the success of Vladimir Zhirinovsky in Russia's recent elections, Panorama examines the threat to world peace. The strong feelings of national pride and resentment in Russia could form the seed-beds of nationalist aggression.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Panorama Season 42 Episode 11 - Mandela's Promised Land
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    #11 - Mandela's Promised Land

    S42:E11

    In 1987 the BBC's Michael Buerk was refused a renewal of his work permit to report from South Africa - effectively he was expelled, as part of the increasing government clampdown on coverage of the apartheid regime.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Panorama Season 42 Episode 12 - Gravy Training
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    #12 - Gravy Training

    S42:E12

    Government schemes to train long-term unemployed sound like a good idea but this investigation reveals they are often very expensive, ineffective and merely a way to massage unemployment figures.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Panorama Season 42 Episode 13 - Episode 13
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    #13 - Episode 13

    S42:E13

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    Director:Unknown
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  14. Panorama Season 42 Episode 14 - Episode 14
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    #14 - Episode 14

    S42:E14

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    Director:Unknown
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  15. Panorama Season 42 Episode 15 - The Price of Power
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    #15 - The Price of Power

    S42:E15

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  16. Panorama Season 42 Episode 16 - Seacroft Is Britain
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    #16 - Seacroft Is Britain

    S42:E16

    On the South Seacroft estate in Leeds, syringes lie in gutters and drug dealers cruise the streets in fast cars confident the police won't catch them. For the children in this area, drugs are a way of life.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Panorama Season 42 Episode 17 - Arafat's Historic Return To Jericho
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    #17 - Arafat's Historic Return To Jericho

    S42:E17

    PLO Chairman Arafat "is no Nelson Mandela" according to a Palestinian commentator, but he has agreed to a fundamental change in the way Arab and Jew will live together in the Middle East. Jane Corbin reports.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Panorama Season 42 Episode 18 - Episode 18
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    #18 - Episode 18

    S42:E18

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    Director:Unknown
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  19. Panorama Season 42 Episode 19 - Journey Into Darkness
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    #19 - Journey Into Darkness

    S42:E19

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    Director:Unknown
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  20. Panorama Season 42 Episode 20 - Poison in the Mouth
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    #20 - Poison in the Mouth

    S42:E20

    Are our dental fillings making us ill? Tom Mangold reports on alarming new evidence about amalgam, the substance metal fillings are made of.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Panorama Season 42 Episode 21 - Grassed! - The Changing Role of the Police Informant
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    #21 - Grassed! - The Changing Role of the Police Informant

    S42:E21

    "The police force should not be enticing people to commit crime - And that is what they have been doing," says James Daniels, a small-time villain who claims he was set up by a police informer on a major firearms charge.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Panorama Season 42 Episode 22 - Salvaging Babies
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    #22 - Salvaging Babies

    S42:E22

    "If the baby comes out and looks a 'goer', we will try for it" says a doctor to a woman 22 weeks pregnant and starting contractions. Sarah Barclay examines whether it is miraculous or madness to try to save babies born extremely premature.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Panorama Season 42 Episode 23 - Episode 23
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    #23 - Episode 23

    S42:E23

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    Director:Unknown
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  24. Panorama Season 42 Episode 24 - Episode 24
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    #24 - Episode 24

    S42:E24

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    Director:Unknown
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  25. Panorama Season 42 Episode 25 - The Landlord's Return
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    #25 - The Landlord's Return

    S42:E25

    The landlord is back. But is he up to the job? In tonight's programme, Mike Embley investigates the rent revolution - millions of people who've always looked to the state for a home are being forced to go to private landlords.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 42 Ratings Summary

"Nose to Tail" is the best rated episode of "Panorama" season 42. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/17/1994. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Current Fears".