World in Action(1963)

series - first aired/released 1963-01-01 - audience 7.0

News, Documentary

Directed by Allan Segal, Andre Singer, Baz Taylor, Brian Blake, Brian Moser, Carol Wilks, Charles Denton, Charles Sturridge, Charles Tremayne, Chris Malone, David Boulton, David Bowen-Jones, David Hart, David Richards, Denis Mitchell, Dennis Woolf, Eugene Ferguson, Gordon Flemyng, Jacquie Hughes, John Blake, John O'Regan, John Sheppard, Leslie Woodhead, Linda McDougall, Michael Beckham, Michael Grigsby, Mike Hodges, Mike Wooller, Nigel Bellis, Patricia Pearson, Paul Greengrass, Philip Clothier, Robert Khodadad, Simon Berthon, Stephen Segaller, Steve Morrison, Stuart Prebble, Vanya Kewley

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.