First Tuesday

1. The Chinese Geordie/A Message from the Falklands/Hostages of War

Air Date: 1983-04-05

2. Desperate Choice/Rupert Goes to Town/Voices from Moscow

Air Date: 1983-05-13

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 1983-06-07

4. Third Avenue/The View From the Roof of Lancashire/From Peking to Poplar

Air Date: 1983-07-05

5. A Lottery for Life/Third Avenue

Air Date: 1983-08-02

6. The Shadow Boxer/The Real Maria

Air Date: 1983-09-06

7. Life in San Quentin/The Hunters of Cadgwith Cove

Air Date: 1983-10-04

8. Windscale: The Nuclear Laundry

Air Date: 1983-11-01

9. Women Miners/Sunday Mornings and Saturday Nights

Air Date: 1983-12-06

10. The Summer Holiday/Goodbye Joey

Air Date: 1984-01-03

11. The Town that Builds the Bomb/Survivors of the Kwai/Heavy Metal

Air Date: 1984-02-07

12. Families Who Wait/Aunt Annie's Bomb Factory

Air Date: 1984-03-06

Families Who Wait - Documentary which looks at the legal battles of two families to be reunited after the children have been taken into care. Aunt Annie's Bomb Factory - Documentary which examines the real facts behind the 1974 IRA bomb campaign in Britain and asks if the real perpetrators esca

1. Down and Out in Calke Abbey/Warship Usa/Return to Windscale

Air Date: 1984-04-03

2. The Promised Land/Kim Phuc

Air Date: 1984-05-01

3. A Place for Stephen/A Safe House

Air Date: 1984-06-05

A Place for Stephen - Documentary about seventeen year old Stephen Brown, born with sight loss and profoundly deaf after his mother contracted German measles during her pregnancy. Gives an account of Stephen's three-month trial at Manor House, an assessment and further education centre specialising in young adults handicapped by rubella. A Safe House - Documentary which looks at the moral dilemma of families who offer sanctuary to refugees from Central America who are illegal immigrants to the USA.

4. The Miners' Strike

Air Date: 1984-07-03

5. Blind Faith/Something to Write Home About/Where Did You Get That Woman?

Air Date: 1984-08-07

6. The Bard of Stepney

Air Date: 1984-09-04

7. Autumn Leaves/The Video Prophet

Air Date: 1984-10-02

8. Return to Nagasaki

Air Date: 1984-11-06

9. Jim Crow's Army/Who Killed Nora Mccabe?

Air Date: 1984-12-04

10. The Last Voyage of the Artic Raider/The Longwood Thump

Air Date: 1985-01-01

11. The Unofficial Famine

Air Date: 1985-02-05

12. Many Rivers to Cross/Jamaican Exile

Air Date: 1985-03-05

1. Insult to Injury/Lebanon: A Family at War

Air Date: 1985-04-02

Two stories of racial tension. The first, a highly personal one for Martin Short as he reports on the dangers faced by his wife's family in war-torn Lebanon. The second closer to home in London, where the National Front target Bengalis.

2. Yanks Meet Reds

Air Date: 1985-05-07

3. Goals Not Dole/The End of the Line?

Air Date: 1985-06-04

Goals Not Dole - Documentary which explores the experience of unemployment through the views of members of a South Yorkshire village football team and their families. The End of the Line - Documentary on the near-doomed Settle to Carlisle railway line.

4. Our First Year/Visiting Day

Air Date: 1985-07-02

Two documentaries about women's pilgrimages: the German wartime ones who came to Southport to avoid Nazis, and the present day ones who prepare and undertake prison visits to their husbands from Glasgow to Peterhead Prison.

5. Made in Huddersfield/A Death in the Family

Air Date: 1985-08-06

6. Invitation to Disaster/Comrades at Arms

Air Date: 1985-09-03

7. An Officer and a Lady

Air Date: 1985-10-01

8. 'Trevor, It's the Bailiffs'/Akong and the Big Shrine Room

Air Date: 1985-11-05

"Trevor, It's the Bailiffs" - Documentary which looks at the work of Jim Ellis and Terry Allen who are bailiffs in Nottingham repossessing furniture. Akong and the Big Shrine Room - Documentary about Akong Rimpoche who fled his native Tibet after the Chinese invasion and is now abbot of the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Dumfrieshire.

9. Inside Britain's Bomb

Air Date: 1985-12-03

10. In the Line of Duty/The Valley

Air Date: 1986-01-07

11. Sugar Ditch Alley

Air Date: 1986-02-04

12. Len Harding: Born a Number/Kent Coal: Staying on Top

Air Date: 1986-03-04

Len Harding: Born a Number - Documentary which follows up on the story of Rampton patient Len Harding, and looks at his life since his release from the secure hospital at Rampton. Kent Coal: Staying on Top - Documentary in which Kent miners and their families discuss their industry in the aftermath of the year-long coal strike of 1984-1985.

1. Children Who Wait/The Seveso Inheritance

Air Date: 1986-04-01

Children Who Wait - Documentary which looks at the story of two children who have liver transplants in a Cambridge hospital - Jonathan O'Rourke and Reut Haddad, both nearly two years old. Set against the background of a shortage of live donors and the balance the NHS strikes between transplants and less glamorous activities. The Seveso Inheritance - Documentary which looks at the destruction of lives in the Italian town of Seveso after the accident in the area with dioxin gas ten years ago.

2. Fall Out from Chernobyl

Air Date: 1986-05-06

3. The Futures Game

Air Date: 1986-06-03

4. The Guildford Time Bomb

Air Date: 1986-07-01

5. Twilight in Belize/Good Vibrations

Air Date: 1986-08-05

Twilight in Belize - Documentary in which the lives of two sisters in the 70s are traced. Joan Shaw stayed in England and lives in Scunthorpe surrounded by her family. Her sister Dorothea left England and now lives alone in a jungle clearing in Belize. Good Vibrations - Documentary about the career of concert musician Evelyn Glennie, who has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12 years.

6. Come on in the Waters Fine/Kicked Into Touch

Air Date: 1986-09-02

7. When Did You Last See My Father?

Air Date: 1986-10-07

8. Death Row: A One Woman Band/Children Who Wait

Air Date: 1986-11-04

9. Abandoned Babies/Your Champagne, Sir

Air Date: 1986-12-02

10. New York: The Quiet Catastrophe/Dancing on Her Grave

Air Date: 1987-01-06

11. Family on the Run/Surf's Up at Port Talbot!

Air Date: 1987-02-03

Family on the Run - Documentary about the case of David and Linda Arthur, who have left Britain to protect their child from being taken into care, after their daughter was not returned to them after they had been cleared of child abuse. Surf's up at Port Talbot - Documentary about a surfing club created by unemployed men in Port Talbot, South Wales.

12. A Case That Won't Go Away/Gone Dancing

Air Date: 1987-03-03

1. Cambodia: Children of the Killing Fields

Air Date: 1988-04-05

2. The Swap

Air Date: 1988-05-03

Two working class families swap places in a social experiment to see whether, under Thatcher's Britain, the North-South divide is actually more stark than the class divide.

3. A Quiet Scream/Sato: A Child Apart

Air Date: 1988-06-07

4. Bridge Across the Foyle/Albania: The Last Outpost

Air Date: 1988-07-05

5. Children of the Third Reich/Last Exit: Berlin

Air Date: 1988-08-02

Children of the Third Reich - More than 40 years after the end of World War II, the children of Nazi soldiers are still coming to terms with the awful truth. Last Exit Berlin - Documentary about Palestinian refugees, who had fled the war in Lebanon, seeking asylum in West Germany.

6. The Bofors Affair

Air Date: 1988-09-06

7. Afghantsi

Air Date: 1988-10-04

Documentary about the Afghantsi who are the military veterans of "Russia's Vietnam", the Afghan war. The film follows the Red Army from the start of the withdrawal in May 1988. It goes in the barracks of the crack paratroop regiment; the wards of Kabul's military hospital; on a helicopter gunship to a mountain outpost where Soviet conscripts serve unrelieved for 18 months.

8. The Apostle and the Prophet/School Is Out

Air Date: 1988-11-01

9. Too Close to Home

Air Date: 1988-12-06

Documentary about the people who have died of asbestos cancer because they worked in or just lived near asbestos factories or buildings containing asbestos.

10. Murder in Ostankino Precinct

Air Date: 1989-01-03

Documentary which follows a murder investigation in Moscow from the discovery of the body to the arrest and interrogation of the final suspect.

11. Pedigree Chums/The Wigan Hold

Air Date: 1989-02-07

12. A Heartbeat Away/Woman v. Bull

Air Date: 1989-03-07

1. The Buggist

Air Date: 1989-04-04

A glimpse into the life of MI5 'cut-out' David Coghlan, a free-lance agent whose work for that organization was in the secret, shadowy world of covert surveillance and telephone tapping. The program was presented by Olivia O'Leary, narrated by Roger Finnigan and produced by Yorkshire Television.

2. Four Hours in My Lai

Air Date: 1989-05-02

"Four Hours in My Lai" is a documentary film made by Yorkshire Television in England concerning an infamous massacres of Vietnamese civilians in Tu Cung sub-hamlet, better known to the US Army as My Lai (4) and commonly referred to as "Pinksville", on 16th March 1968. This massacre was carried out by "Charlie Company" - members of C Company, 1st battalion, 20th Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade of the US Army. The film-makers interview participants in and survivors of the tragedy, trying to understand how such an atrocity could have happened.

3. Sister Martin's Profession/Last Chance on Death Row

Air Date: 1989-06-06

4. Shakespeare - Midsummer Nights Mystery

Air Date: 1989-07-04

5. For Queen and Country

Air Date: 1989-08-01

6. The Hunting Ground

Air Date: 1989-09-05

7. A Well-Founded Fear/Hearts of Oak

Air Date: 1989-10-03

A Well-Founded Fear - Documentary about Tamil refugees seeking asylum in Britain. Hearts of Oak - Documentary about the friendship between Herbert Herrmann and Taff Davies, who were on opposing sides in World War II at the time of the sinking of the Royal Oak in Scapa Flow by a German U-Boat in October 1939.

8. Guildford Four: Free to Speak

Air Date: 1989-11-07

9. Uncle Sam's Refuseniks

Air Date: 1989-12-05

10. South Africa's Death Factory

Air Date: 1990-01-02

11. Disaster at Hillsborough

Air Date: 1990-02-06

12. Firefighter

Air Date: 1990-03-06

1. Sonia's Baby

Air Date: 1990-04-03

2. The Power of Healing: Apply Within

Air Date: 1990-05-01

3. Vicious Circles

Air Date: 1990-06-05

Documentary about the involvement of international companies in the high death levels of babies in Pakistan.

4. Driven to the Limit/Liquid Cosh

Air Date: 1990-07-03

Driven to the Limit - Documentary looking at joyriders in Belfast who account for half of all car thefts and do so despite the fact that 7 joyriders have been shot by security forces since 1980 and 2000 'punished' by the IRA. Liquid Cosh - Documentary looking at the use of tranquillisers in the treatment of the mentally ill, and at the claims that they can cause very serious side- effects.

5. Angel Is Missing

Air Date: 1990-08-07

6. Murder in Glodwick

Air Date: 1990-09-04

Documentary looking at the events surrounding the murder of 14 year-old Tahir Akram in Glodwick, Oldham, UK.

7. Swing Under the Swastika

Air Date: 1990-10-02

8. Sweetening the Medicine

Air Date: 1990-11-06

9. Paul Sykes: At Large

Air Date: 1990-12-04

10. M25: The Magic Roundabout

Air Date: 1991-01-01

1. Poisoned Lives

Air Date: 1991-02-05

Documentary looking at the Spanish cooking oil disaster of 1981 in which 25,000 people became ill with contaminated oil.

2. 21st Century Medicine/Last Chance on Death Row

Air Date: 1991-03-05

3. Gitmo: Cold War in Cuba

Air Date: 1991-04-02

4. The Secret of Castle Hill

Air Date: 1991-05-07

5. The Prime Minister, the Junkie and the Boys on Death Row

Air Date: 1991-06-04

6. Britannia Waives the Rules

Air Date: 1991-07-02

7. A Picture of Health

Air Date: 1991-08-06

Documentary about the health divide between rich and poor in UK, focusing on the people of South Teeside, Cleveland.

8. The Great British Burglary

Air Date: 1991-09-03

9. The Good, the Bad and the Earthquake

Air Date: 1991-10-01

10. After the Wall

Air Date: 1991-11-05

11. Food (Eat Your Heart Out)

Air Date: 1991-12-03

1. Cold Blood: The Massacre of East Timor

Air Date: 1992-01-07

Examines the nature of the Indonesian occupation of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Reviews the personal and collective calvaries experienced by the people of East Timor, and considers Australia's inaction before the litany of human rights abuses committed by the Indonesian regime, in particular, the Dili Massacre of 1991 (Shot both in East Timor and Australia).

2. Subway City

Air Date: 1992-02-04

3. Suspicion of Abuse

Air Date: 1992-03-03

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 1992-04-07

5. Called to the Bar

Air Date: 1992-05-05

6. Tobacco Wars

Air Date: 1992-06-02

7. Under Interrogation

Air Date: 1992-07-07

Documentary about the interrogation of criminal suspects by detectives in a Birmingham police station.

8. Episode 8

Air Date: 1992-08-04

9. Nuclear India: A Dream Gone Sour

Air Date: 1992-09-01

10. Hostage to Fortune

Air Date: 1992-10-06

11. Locking Up Women

Air Date: 1992-11-03

Documentary about prison officers and prisoners in Holloway Prison.

12. Brezhnev's Daughter

Air Date: 1992-12-01

1. Prisoner on the Run

Air Date: 1993-01-05

The story of David Ford, who was sentenced to life imprisonment at the age of 16 for killing a friend in a fight. Now 43 and fed up with waiting for freedom, he has gone on the run, living for secret meetings with his family and campaigning for a fairer parole system.

2. Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Air Date: 1993-02-02

Documentary on some long-time inmates of Britain's mental hospitals who, it is revealed as such hospitals are gradually being emptied, were sent away simply for being deaf, pregnant or unwanted.

3. Bad Trip to Edgewood

Air Date: 1993-03-02

4. Ten Years of First Tuesday

Air Date: 1993-04-06

5. Riverman/Life Begins at Fourteen

Air Date: 1993-05-04

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 1993-06-01

7. Hidden Hand: The Forgotten Massacre

Air Date: 1993-07-06

8. Laogai: Inside China's Gulag

Air Date: 1993-08-03

9. Pleasure Island

Air Date: 1993-09-07

10. Follow the Flag

Air Date: 1993-10-05

11. Johnny Kingdom and the Secret of Happiness

Air Date: 1993-11-02