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The Worst Episodes of Whicker's World

Whicker's World is an award-winning British television documentary series that ran from 1958 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker. Originally a segment on...
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    #1 - Papa Doc -The Black Sheep

    S1:E1

    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.

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    #2 - Whicker In Stroessner's Paraguay - The Last Dictator

    S1:E2

    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.

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

    S1:E3

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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    #4 - I'd Like To Think I'm Nearer To God Than Frankenstein

    S1:E4

    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.

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

    S1:E5

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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    #6 - He's Been Hunted All His Life - Now He's Going To Rest In Peace

    S1:E6

    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

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

    S1:E7

    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.

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

    S1:E8

    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.

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    #9 - The Aristocracy Business

    S2:E1

    Alan Whicker investigates the aristocracy, talking to rich peers and land-owners, including the Baron of Guiseborough, the Baron of Faversham, Viscount Down, and George Howard (Castle Howard).

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    #10 - Tankers/Boat People (Hong Kong)

    S2:E2

    It’s the Chinese New Year’s Day and Alan Whicker focuses on a picturesque Chinese race and their strange ‘centuries-old’ pattern of life - the Boat People, whose homes, shops, restaurants and brothels (or ‘flower-boats’) all float.

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    #11 - Devil’s Island

    S2:E3

    The most dreaded island in the world has been undisturbed and decaying for a few silent years. Alan Whicker seeks out ex-convicts who survived the Island’s unspeakable cruelties, and parts the curtain on a grisly stage where 75,000 Bagnards lived, fought and died.

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    #12 - Pixie Dust on the Goodie Goodie Land

    S2:E4

    Alan Whicker discusses the coming of Disneyworld to Florida. The special magic of Disneyworld is explored and Whicker finds himself judged unacceptable by the tribe of ‘apostles’ preparing to spread pixie dust on ten million people a year.

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    #13 - Vienna - Come in Doctor Freud, All is Forgiven

    S2:E5

    This week Whicker discovers vienna and its people

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    #14 - You Stopped Being a Pigeon When You Got Your Throat Cut

    S2:E6

    Whicker is in the Great Central Desert of Australia and the mostly underground environs of Coober Pedy, the centre for Opal mining, the real outback that's for sure.

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    #15 - Charleston, South Carolina - You Used to Call Me Boy, Now You Got To Call Me Mr Boy

    S2:E7

    In this episode he looks at the way the lives of the black community has changed since the 1920's

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    #16 - Anchorage, Alaska - The Ultimate Dream, the Last Chance to Do it Right

    S2:E8

    Alan Whicker heads north to the spectacular landscpe of Alaska. It has the most hostile conditions in the world; Winter temperatures average minus 60 degrees, if there’s a wind, it can plummet below minus 100 degrees and the nights last two months.

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    #17 - Nothing is Utopia, This Comes Pretty Close

    S2:E9

    Alan Whicker meets some of the 50,000 Britons that have made Los Angeles their home, drinking in English-style pubs and playing cricket. He interviews Christopher Lee and Peter Sellers and also meets that model of Englishness, Patrick Macnee, who admits he would like to die in Dorset.

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    #18 - The Absolute Monarch

    S2:E10

    Alan Whicker joins the Sultan of Brunei (reputedly the richest man in the world) in his kingdom on the island of Borneo. He joins in the silver jubilee celebrations and meets the Sultan’s family and his army.

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    #19 - The Road from Rose Linda's - Alan Whicker Meets the Cats Eyes-Man

    S3:E1

    Whicker meets Percy Shaw who invented cats’ eye reflectors for roads. We discover how Percy Shaw was inspired on his way home from a pub named Rose Linda’s in Queensbury near Halifax in West Yorkshire, when he found himself guided by his car headlights reflecting off the tram lines.

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    #20 - Immortality Inc

    S3:E2

    Whicker looks at the cult of immortality in America, where people will pay $10,000 for the chance to live twice. They believe that while they are frozen for a century or two, science will find a way of re-animating them as medicine crosses new frontiers. A Michigan professor predicts it will become a trillion dollar industry. Twenty people are frozen already. On Long Island, Whicker talks to a Manhattan policeman, beside them, in a crate of dry ice, is his wife. His hope is that science will find a way to cure the cancer from which she died, and then invent a method of reviving her. On his death he will join her in the ‘freezatorium’. In the San Fernando Valley, Whicker meets the director of a scheme by which 20 bodies can be frozen in large tanks, liquid nitrogen preserves them in this frozen limbo and a salt solution replaces their blood.

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    #21 - Conflict in Kentucky

    S1967:E1

    Alan Whicker attends the 93rd running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill's Downs track in Louisville, Kentucky. But the event is threatened when activists plan a programme of civil disobedience as a protest against the practice of residential segregation.

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    #22 - The World Of James Bond

    S1967:E3

    Episode Segment on James Bond Tonight we join 007 - Secret Agent and all-time box-office champion. We're on location in Japan with James Bond's latest £3-million epic "You Only Live Twice", which could be seen by 100 million cinemagoers. For Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, the two multi-millionaire producers, making a picture is an oriental headache, especially with Sean Connery, another millionaire and perhaps the best-known face in the world. You've got to think big for Bond films: to the tune of building a £400,000 volcano and then blowing it up!

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Papa Doc -The Black Sheep" is the worst rated episode of "Whicker's World". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/17/1969. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Whicker In Stroessner's Paraguay - The Last Dictator".