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Best Episodes of Whicker's World
The Road from Rose Linda's - Alan Whicker Meets the Cats Eyes-Man
S3 Ep1
10.0
8th Oct 1968
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.
Worst Episodes of Whicker's World
Papa Doc -The Black Sheep
S1 Ep1
3.3
17th Jun 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.
Whicker's World Episode Guide
Papa Doc -The Black Sheep
S1 Ep1
3.3
17th Jun 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.
Whicker In Stroessner's Paraguay - The Last Dictator
S1 Ep2
7th Apr 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.
Harold Robbins - I'm The World's Greatest Writer
S1 Ep3
13th Dec 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.
I'd Like To Think I'm Nearer To God Than Frankenstein
S1 Ep4
13th Sep 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.
I Haven't Taken My Own Shoes Off For 45 Years
S1 Ep5
14th Sep 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.
He's Been Hunted All His Life - Now He's Going To Rest In Peace
S1 Ep6
5th Oct 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
I Wear A Uniform And Pack A Gun But I'm Still A Woman
S1 Ep7
17th Oct 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.
If A Cop Wiggled Around With Pink Hair And A Limp Wrist It Would Discredit The Department
S1 Ep8
14th Apr 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.
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 the BBC's Tonight programme in 1958, Whicker's World became a fully-fledged television series in its own right in the 1960s. The series was first shown by the BBC until 1968, and then by ITV from 1969 to 1983, when it was produced by Yorkshire Television, in which Whicker himself was a shareholder. The series returned to the BBC in 1984, and to ITV again in 1992.
The best rated episodes of Whicker's World are:
The Road from Rose Linda's - Alan Whicker Meets the Cats Eyes-Man S3E1 rated 10.0
The lowest rated episodes of Whicker's World are:
Papa Doc -The Black Sheep S1E1 rated 3.3
The first episode of Whicker's World aired on June 17, 1969.
The last episode of Whicker's World aired on June 10, 1992.
There are 22 episodes of Whicker's World.
There are 6 seasons of Whicker's World.
Yes.
Whicker's World is set to return for future episodes.
