Season 2

E1. The Aristocracy Business

Sep 5, 1968 · 45m

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).

E2. Tankers/Boat People (Hong Kong)

Feb 15, 1970 · 25m

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.

E3. Devil’s Island

Jan 7, 1971 · 26m

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.

E4. Pixie Dust on the Goodie Goodie Land

Sep 5, 1971 · 26m

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.

E5. Vienna - Come in Doctor Freud, All is Forgiven

Sep 24, 1975 · 55m

This week Whicker discovers Vienna and its people.

E6. You Stopped Being a Pigeon When You Got Your Throat Cut

Jun 9, 1976 · 25m

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.

E7. Charleston, South Carolina - You Used to Call Me Boy, Now You Got To Call Me Mr Boy

Sep 21, 1977 · 55m

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

E8. Anchorage, Alaska - The Ultimate Dream, the Last Chance to Do it Right

Sep 7, 1977 · 55m

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.

E9. Nothing is Utopia, This Comes Pretty Close

May 7, 1980 · 55m

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.

E10. The Absolute Monarch

Jun 10, 1992 · 50m

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.