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  Papa Doc -The Black Sheep

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/17/1969

  Papa Doc - The Black Sheep Hatti was the world's first black republic, ruled from 1957 to 1971 by 'President For Life' Dr Francis Duvalier - Papa Doc. Whicker meets Papa Doc in his Presidential Palace at Port au Prince in the company of his Tontons Macoutes - murderous civilian thugs. This show won the Dumont International Journalism Award at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1971.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Whicker In Stroessner's Paraguay - The Last Dictator

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/7/1970

  Whicker In Stroessner's Paraguay - The Last Dictator Alan Whicker comes face-to-face with the last of South America's old style dictators - Don Alfredo Stroessner who has been absolute ruler of Paraguay for 19 years. One Paraguayan in ten is sold to be a paid informer and the Minister of Information has admitted there are so many informers that they run out of information and have to make it up.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Harold Robbins - I'm The World's Greatest Writer

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/13/1971

  Harold Robbins - I'm The World's Best Writer Harold Robbins, 56 and five times married, is the orphan who became the world's best paid writer. In New York he takes Alan Whicker round the Devil's Kitchen district of his youth. This won the Best Interview Programme Award at 1973's Hollywood Festival of World Television.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  I'd Like To Think I'm Nearer To God Than Frankenstein

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/13/1973

  I'd Like To Think I'm Nearer To God Than Frankenstein In California they change faces as casually as we change clothes and cosmetic surgery is no longer only for the rich and famous. Whicker meets plastic surgeon Kurt Wagner and his wife Kathy, a walking example of his surgery skills.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  I Haven't Taken My Own Shoes Off For 45 Years

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/14/1976

  I Haven't Taken My Own Shoes Off For 45 Years Whicker arrives in Penang for the island's spectacular Thalpusam festival, where entranced pilgrims pierce themselves with giant spikes. He also meets a Scottish doctor still living in the style of the British Raj.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  He's Been Hunted All His Life - Now He's Going To Rest In Peace

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/5/1977

  He's Been Hunted All His Life - Now He's Going To Rest In Peace Butch Cassidy's sister Lula is alive and well and living in Utah, aged 94 and with a fund of fascinating stories. In Salt Lake City Whicker drives the hydrogen car, learns from Dinosaur Jim why these monsters face a new extinction, and sees the world's biggest man-made hole

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  I Wear A Uniform And Pack A Gun But I'm Still A Woman

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1978

  Part 1 - Whicker undertakes a risky assignment, hurtling around San Francisco in the back of a police car. The cops are women, fully armed and determined to prove they are worthy of the blue uniform. Please Note, this episode contains some strong language.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  If A Cop Wiggled Around With Pink Hair And A Limp Wrist It Would Discredit The Department

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/14/1980

  Part 2 - San Francisco's 150,000 homosexuals are the city's largest unofficial minority. The Police Department has become the first in the US to knowingly recruit gay officers. Whicker gives an exclusive view of the first gay officers training and going on patrol.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown