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The Best Episodes of Panorama Season 48

Every episode of Panorama Season 48 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Panorama Season 48!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Panorama Season 48 Episode 1 - Casualties
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    #1 - Casualties

    S48:E1

    An investigation into Paramedics. Panorama uncovers evidence of poor training, lack of skills and chaotic organisation, which are costing thousands of lives every year.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Panorama Season 48 Episode 2 - Back to the Kitchen Sink
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    #2 - Back to the Kitchen Sink

    S48:E2

    New research suggests more and more women who try to combine full-time jobs with bringing up children are giving up the struggle. Sarah Powell reports.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Panorama Season 48 Episode 3 - Dr. Shipman - The Man Who Played God
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    #3 - Dr. Shipman - The Man Who Played God

    S48:E3

    On the day Dr. Shipman is convicted of murdering 15, A Panorama special reveals the full extent of his campaign of murder against the elderly women of Hyde.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Panorama Season 48 Episode 4 - Human Traffic
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    #4 - Human Traffic

    S48:E4

    From April the Government will cut cash benefits to asylum seekers, and it is also launching a programme to relocate refugees from the South East to other parts of the country. The aim is to clamp down on bogus asylum seekers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Panorama Season 48 Episode 5 - Speed
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    #5 - Speed

    S48:E5

    Every year around 5,000 children are killed or badly injured on Britain's roads. Government ministers are currently reviewing speed limits for residential streets, but will their recommendations become law?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Panorama Season 48 Episode 6 - The Lost Children
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    #6 - The Lost Children

    S48:E6

    Tonight's programme investigates the cases of bereaved parents who have been shattered to learn that the hearts and other organs of their dead children have been kept in hospitals without the families' consent.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Panorama Season 48 Episode 7 - Losing Control
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    #7 - Losing Control

    S48:E7

    Vivian White looks at the problems facing the government and addresses the questions that remain unanswered about who runs Britain under the Labour Party.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Panorama Season 48 Episode 8 - The Whole Truth?
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    #8 - The Whole Truth?

    S48:E8

    Gerry Conlon, who was one of the Guildford Four, speaks out about the growing number of innocent people wrongly accused of serious crimes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Panorama Season 48 Episode 9 - Moral Combat - NATO at War
    7.0/10(10 votes)

    #9 - Moral Combat - NATO at War

    S48:E9

    After NATO's bombing campaign, Allan Little takes a challenging look at the reasons for the war in Kosovo, examining why, and how, the West used force to pursue what was outwardly presented as a moral crusade against ethnic cleansing.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Panorama Season 48 Episode 10 - Spin Doctors
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    #10 - Spin Doctors

    S48:E10

    This programme enters the world of Labour's health spin doctors, to unravel the truth from the increasingly powerful government propaganda machine, and asks, will Tony Blair fulfil his pledge to "save the NHS"?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Panorama Season 48 Episode 11 - Blighted
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    #11 - Blighted

    S48:E11

    In Cheshire a toxic dump has poisoned a village. In London and the South East thousands of new homes are being built on polluted land. How safe are we from the legacy of industrial contamination? David Lomax reports.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Panorama Season 48 Episode 12 - Atomic Alert
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    #12 - Atomic Alert

    S48:E12

    Two companies criticised over their safety records are in a consortium chosen by the Government to run the top-secret nuclear weapons site at Aldermaston in Berkshire from 1 April. Gerry Northam reports.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Panorama Season 48 Episode 13 - Dot Com Fever
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    #13 - Dot Com Fever

    S48:E13

    Tom Mangold investigates the internet phenomenon that is becoming Britain's millennium gold rush as investors, hoping to become millionaires, scramble to put money into tiny internet companies.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Panorama Season 48 Episode 14 - Ivory Wars
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    #14 - Ivory Wars

    S48:E14

    Panorama reports on the flourishing illegal trade in ivory spurred on by demand from the far east, which has resulted in elephant orphanages in Kenya.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Panorama Season 48 Episode 15 - Kids on Pills
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    #15 - Kids on Pills

    S48:E15

    Reporting on the concern being expressed, here and in America, that drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac are being prescribed to children to treat recognised behavioural disorders and are therefore being used as a substitute for good parenting

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Panorama Season 48 Episode 16 - The Dying Game
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    #16 - The Dying Game

    S48:E16

    Panorama investigates the AIDS crisis in South Africa and asks what can be done about it. With South Africa expecting one million AIDS orphans in the next five years, it is a question everybody involved with the disease is asking.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Panorama Season 48 Episode 17 - The Two Billion Pound Ball Game
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    #17 - The Two Billion Pound Ball Game

    S48:E17

    The impending auction of football TV rights will result in a 2 billion pound bonanza for the domestic game. But critics argue that too much money is going to Britain's handful of super clubs, creating an unbridgeable gulf within the game.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Panorama Season 48 Episode 18 - The Mortgage Timebomb
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    #18 - The Mortgage Timebomb

    S48:E18

    Anxiety is gripping millions of homeowners following the news that endowment-linked mortgages will fall thousands of pounds short when they mature. David Lomax assesses the advice being given by companies that pushed endowments in the past

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Panorama Season 48 Episode 19 - Panorama: Pensions Bubble
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    #19 - Panorama: Pensions Bubble

    S48:E19

    An investigation into evidence that changes in the rules on occupational pensions could leave people worse off than expected when they retire.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Panorama Season 48 Episode 20 - Gangmasters
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    #20 - Gangmasters

    S48:E20

    Paul Kenyon investigates the criminals who exploit illegal immigrants as cheap labour for food companies supplying Britain's biggest supermarket chains.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Panorama Season 48 Episode 21 - England's Shame
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - England's Shame

    S48:E21

    In a special investigation, Panorama goes undercover with English supporters at Euro 2000 - And takes a revealing look at the men behind the violence of Euro 2000.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Panorama Season 48 Episode 22 - The Truth About Rubbish
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    #22 - The Truth About Rubbish

    S48:E22

    The Government aims to double the amount of recycling in the UK - but will householders ever get used to separating and sorting rubbish? Vivian White reports.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Panorama Season 48 Episode 23 - The Nail Bomber
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    #23 - The Nail Bomber

    S48:E23

    Panorama confronts the men it says inspired the London Nail Bomber David Copeland. The programme reveals that Copeland was inspired by known right-wing extremists who fed him a diet of Nazi literature and propaganda.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Panorama Season 48 Episode 24 - Cyber Attack!
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    #24 - Cyber Attack!

    S48:E24

    Following the "love bug" virus which infected millions of computers worldwide, Panorama investigates the vulnerability of personal financial information to attacks from hackers. Jane Corbin reports.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Panorama Season 48 Episode 25 - Pump Wars
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    #25 - Pump Wars

    S48:E25

    The investigative current affairs series returns with the inside stories of this month's fuel price protests, the biggest popular movement Tony Blair has faced as Prime Minister. Jane Corbin reports.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 48 Ratings Summary

"Casualties" is the best rated episode of "Panorama" season 48. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/17/2000. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Back to the Kitchen Sink".