Weekend World
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Overview
Weekend World was a British television political series, made by London Weekend Television and broadcast from 1972 to 1988. Created by John Birt not long after he moved to LWT, the series was broadcast on the ITV network at lunchtimes on Sundays. Produced by Nick Elliott and David Elstein, it began by mirroring CBS's "60 Minutes" featuring several stories each week but gradually devolved into a show that featured a forensic interview with a major political figure each week. It was presented by Peter Jay initially when first broadcast in 1972, but was best-remembered for being anchored by former Labour MP Brian Walden between 1977 and 1986. Conservative MP Matthew Parris took over in 1986, resigning his seat, and presented the programme until the series ended in 1988.
Top cast
17 seasons
1972
1972 · 11 episodes
1972
1972 · 11 episodes
1973
1973 · 35 episodes
1973
1973 · 35 episodes
- 1 1. Episode 1
- 2 2. Episode 2
- 3 3. Episode 3
- 4 4. Episode 4
- 5 5. Episode 5
- 6 6. Episode 6
- 7 7. Episode 7
- 8 8. Episode 8
- 9 9. Lonrho
- 10 10. Episode 10
- 11 11. Episode 11
- 12 12. Episode 12
- 13 13. Episode 13
- 14 14. Episode 14
- 15 15. Episode 15
- 16 16. Episode 16
- 17 17. Episode 17
- 18 18. Episode 18
- 19 19. Episode 19
- 20 20. Episode 20
- 21 21. Episode 21
- 22 22. Episode 22
- 23 23. Episode 23
- 24 24. Episode 24
- 25 25. Episode 25
- 26 26. Episode 26
- 27 27. Episode 27
- 28 28. Episode 28
- 29 29. Episode 29
- 30 30. Episode 30
- 31 31. Episode 31
- 32 32. Episode 32
- 33 33. Emergency Special - The Three Day Week
- 34 34. Episode 34
- 35 35. Episode 35
1974
1974 · 30 episodes
1974
1974 · 30 episodes
- 1 1. Episode 1
- 2 2. Episode 2
- 3 3. Episode 3
- 4 4. The Miners
- 5 5. Episode 5
- 6 6. Episode 6
- 7 7. Episode 7
- 8 8. Episode 8
- 9 9. Episode 9
- 10 10. Episode 10
- 11 11. Episode 11
- 12 12. Episode 12
- 13 13. Episode 13
- 14 14. Episode 14
- 15 15. Edward Heath
- 16 16. Episode 16
- 17 17. Episode 17
- 18 18. Episode 18
- 19 19. Episode 19
- 20 20. Episode 20
- 21 21. Episode 21
- 22 22. Episode 22
- 23 23. Episode 23
- 24 24. Episode 24
- 25 25. Episode 25
- 26 26. Episode 26
- 27 27. Episode 27
- 28 28. Episode 28
- 29 29. Episode 29
- 30 30. Episode 30
1975
1975 · 36 episodes
1975
1975 · 36 episodes
- 1 1. Episode 1
- 2 2. Episode 2
- 3 3. Episode 3
- 4 4. Episode 4
- 5 5. Episode 5
- 6 6. Episode 6
- 7 7. Episode 7
- 8 8. Episode 8
- 9 9. Episode 9
- 10 10. Episode 10
- 11 11. Episode 11
- 12 12. Episode 12
- 13 13. Episode 13
- 14 14. Episode 14
- 15 15. Episode 15
- 16 16. Episode 16
- 17 17. Episode 17
- 18 18. Episode 18
- 19 19. Episode 19
- 20 20. Episode 20
- 21 21. Episode 21
- 22 22. Episode 22
- 23 23. Episode 23
- 24 24. Episode 24
- 25 25. Spanish Executions/Portuguese Democracy
- 26 26. Episode 26
- 27 27. Episode 27
- 28 28. Episode 28
- 29 29. Episode 29
- 30 30. Episode 30
- 31 31. Episode 31
- 32 32. Episode 32
- 33 33. Episode 33
- 34 34. Episode 34
- 35 35. Episode 35
- 36 36. Government & Unions-Rising Unemployment
1976
1976 · 25 episodes
1976
1976 · 25 episodes
- 1 1. Episode 1
- 2 2. Episode 2
- 3 3. Episode 3
- 4 4. Episode 4
- 5 5. Episode 5
- 6 6. Episode 6
- 7 7. Episode 7
- 8 8. Episode 8
- 9 9. Episode 9
- 10 10. Episode 10
- 11 11. Episode 11
- 12 12. Episode 12
- 13 13. Episode 13
- 14 14. Episode 14
- 15 15. Episode 15
- 16 16. Episode 16
- 17 17. Episode 17
- 18 18. Episode 18
- 19 19. Episode 19
- 20 20. Episode 20
- 21 21. Episode 21
- 22 22. Healey on the Economy
- 23 23. Episode 23
- 24 24. The Government Cuts
- 25 25. Education System
1977
1977 · 14 episodes
1977
1977 · 14 episodes
1978
1978 · 17 episodes
1978
1978 · 17 episodes
1979
1979 · 27 episodes
1979
1979 · 27 episodes
- 1 1. Thatcher's Platform
- 2 2. Callaghan's Government
- 3 3. Episode 3
- 4 4. Episode 4
- 5 5. Episode 5
- 6 6. Episode 6
- 7 7. Episode 7
- 8 8. Episode 8
- 9 9. Episode 9
- 10 10. Episode 10
- 11 11. Episode 11
- 12 12. Episode 12
- 13 13. Episode 13
- 14 14. Episode 14
- 15 15. Episode 15
- 16 16. Episode 16
- 17 17. Episode 17
- 18 18. Episode 18
- 19 19. Episode 19
- 20 20. Episode 20
- 21 21. Episode 21
- 22 22. Episode 22
- 23 23. The Thatcher Experiment - Moment of Truth
- 24 24. The Thatcher Experiment - Analysis
- 25 25. Episode 25
- 26 26. Episode 26
- 27 27. Episode 27
1980
1980 · 36 episodes
1980
1980 · 36 episodes
- 1 1. The Thatcher Interview - Britain in the Eighties
- 2 2. Episode 2
- 3 3. Episode 3
- 4 4. Episode 4
- 5 5. Episode 5
- 6 6. Episode 6
- 7 7. Episode 7
- 8 8. Episode 8
- 9 9. Episode 9
- 10 10. Episode 10
- 11 11. Episode 11
- 12 12. The Police and the Public
- 13 13. Labour's Alternative
- 14 14. Israel and the Arabs - Carter Tries Again
- 15 15. Carter's Deadline - Europe Decides
- 16 16. Carter and Iran - The Brink of War
- 17 17. Import Controls - Thatcher's U-Turn?
- 18 18. The Trade Unions and the Government
- 19 19. South Africa - Defying Doomsday
- 20 20. Coming Soon... President Reagan?
- 21 21. Europe's Last Word - Britain Decides
- 22 22. Britain's Bomb - Time to Decide
- 23 23. Poles Break Free - Communism in Crisis
- 24 24. The Thatcher Treatment - Killing the Patient?
- 25 25. The Labour Party - Tearing Itself Apart?
- 26 26. Limiting Nuclear War - A Dangerous Illusion?
- 27 27. The Thatcher Experiment - Phase Two
- 28 28. The Labour Leadership - Can Healey Be Stopped?
- 29 29. The Labour Leadership - Foot's Challenge
- 30 30. Challenge of Change - America Wavers
- 31 31. Thatcherism in Crisis - A Time to Retreat?
- 32 32. Unilateral Disarmament - Better Red Than Dead?
- 33 33. Thatcher's Other Island - Time to Think Again?
- 34 34. The Unemployed - Time Bomb for the Tories
- 35 35. British Steel - The Tories Toughest Test
- 36 36. Britain and Ireland - Dawn of a New Era?
1981
1981 · 36 episodes
1981
1981 · 36 episodes
- 1 1. British Leyland - Day of Decision
- 2 2. The Middle East - Britain Steps in
- 3 3. The Labour Right - Moment of Truth
- 4 4. Foot Loses - Labour Splits?
- 5 5. The Thatcher Interview - Jobs, Prices, Taxes
- 6 6. South Africa - At the Crossroads
- 7 7. Poland - The Last Chance
- 8 8. Thatcher's Somersault
- 9 9. Thatcher Meets Reagan - Patching Up the Alliance
- 10 10. Defending Britain - Time to Decide
- 11 11. After the Budget - Into the Storm
- 12 12. Soaring Rates - Heseltine's Headache
- 13 13. The Social Democrats - What Kind of Alternative?
- 14 14. Industry's Darkest Hour - What's Really Wrong?
- 15 15. Industry's Darkest Hour - What Can Be Done?
- 16 16. The Challenge of Change - France Wavers
- 17 17. The Labour Party - Beyond Repair?
- 18 18. Public Works - The Tories Secret Weapon?
- 19 19. The Hunger Strikers - Forcing a Rethink?
- 20 20. Reagan and the Russians - Risking War?
- 21 21. Tony Benn - In Sight of Victory?
- 22 22. Poland's Bid for Freedom - The Final Days?
- 23 23. Alliance of the Centre - The Road to Power?
- 24 24. The Election Issues
- 25 25. The Missile Rebellion - Weakening the West?
- 26 26. Leading the Labour Party
- 27 27. The Tory Rebellion - Howe Replies
- 28 28. The World's Poor - A Better Deal?
- 29 29. The Tory Wets - Moment of Truth
- 30 30. British Leyland - The Midnight Peace Plan
- 31 31. The Middle East - Dividing the Alliance?
- 32 32. Policing Britain - Time for a Rethink?
- 33 33. Paisley's Challenge - Unleashing Chaos?
- 34 34. The Social Democrats - What Kind of Party?
- 35 35. The Young Unemployed - Doomed to Despair?
- 36 36. Episode 36
1982
1982 · 37 episodes
1982
1982 · 37 episodes
- 1 1. Poland's Agony - What Should We Do?
- 2 2. The Tories Darkest Hour - What Can They Do?
- 3 3. After Poland - A New Cold War?
- 4 4. Tebbit Tackles the Unions - Confrontation on the Way?
- 5 5. Deadlock on the Railways - Shut Down on the Way?
- 6 6. Rape and the Law
- 7 7. Japan's Threat to Jobs - Britain Fights Back
- 8 8. Britain's Bomb - Moment of Truth
- 9 9. The Labour Party - Back on the Brink
- 10 10. Sir Geoffrey's Budget - Basis for Recovery?
- 11 11. Elections in El Salvador - Decision Time in Washington
- 12 12. After Hillhead - Tomorrow's Politics
- 13 13. Regaining the Falklands - On Course for War?
- 14 14. Regaining the Falklands - The Brink of War
- 15 15. Regaining the Falklands - Last Chance for Peace?
- 16 16. Nearer to Peace - Or Closer to War?
- 17 17. Battle for the Falklands - Setting Off a War?
- 18 18. Invading the Falklands - Moment of Decision
- 19 19. Peace Talks in New York - Decision Time in Downing Street
- 20 20. Battle for the Falklands - The Hours of Danger
- 21 21. War on the Falklands - A Fight to the Finish?
- 22 22. The Future of the Falklands - America States Its Terms
- 23 23. The Future of the Falklands - An End to Consensus?
- 24 24. Massacre in Beirut - Death Blow to Peace?
- 25 25. After the Conference - On the Road to Power?
- 26 26. Lebanon's Agony - The West Steps in
- 27 27. The Thatcher Approach - An Election Winner?
- 28 28. The Divided West - A New Beginning?
- 29 29. Prior's Irish Initiative - Deepening the Divide?
- 30 30. Banks on the Brink - Rescue or Ruin?
- 31 31. Responding to Poland - The Allies Divided
- 32 32. After Brezhnev - Andropov's Russia
- 33 33. The Labour Party - Back in Turmoil?
- 34 34. Crisis at GATT - Britain's Dilemma
- 35 35. Cable Television - Marvel or Menace?
- 36 36. After Ballykelly - A Time for Decision
- 37 37. The Spies Scandal - What Should We Do?
1983
1983 · 36 episodes
1983
1983 · 36 episodes
- 1 1. The Resolute Approach - An Election Winner?
- 2 2. The Prime Minister - The Resolute Approach
- 3 3. Devaluing the Pound - A Dangerous Remedy?
- 4 4. The Water Strike - Compromise or Chaos?
- 5 5. The Missile Debate - America Puts Its Case
- 6 6. The Missile Debate - Heseltine Replies
- 7 7. The Missile Debate - The Case Against Cruise
- 8 8. After Bermondsey - Will Foot Survive?
- 9 9. The Middle East - New Hope for Peace?
- 10 10. After the Miners' Ballot - What Future for the Unions?
- 11 11. Beyond the Budget - A Last Recovery?
- 12 12. Defeat at Darlington - Dividing the Alliance?
- 13 13. The Missiles Deadlock - What Hope for a Deal?
- 14 14. Power to the Police - A Threat to Liberty?
- 15 15. The Alliance and the Election - Can Steel Save the Day?
- 16 16. The World Economy - On the Road to Recovery?
- 17 17. The Chequers Decision - An Election in June?
- 18 18. The General Election - Can the Tories Lose?
- 19 19. The Alliance and the Election - Jenkins Sets His Sights
- 20 20. Labour Facing Defeat - Can Foot Turn the Tide?
- 21 21. A Thatcher Victory - What Kind of Britain?
- 22 22. Labour Humiliated - Can It Recover?
- 23 23. The Liberals and the Alliance - Steel Takes the Strain
- 24 24. War in Lebanon - Dividing the West?
- 25 25. Labour's New Leader - Can He Save the Party?
- 26 26. Public Spending - How Deep the Cuts?
- 27 27. The Fall of Parkinson - The Testing of Thatcher
- 28 28. The Health Service - Its Future Assured?
- 29 29. The Grenada Invasion - Straining the Ties?
- 30 30. Northern Ireland - The Way Forward?
- 31 31. The Middle East - Close to the Brink
- 32 32. Lawson's Recovery Plan - Fading from View?
- 33 33. The Newspaper Dispute - Cue for Confrontation?
- 34 34. Europe's Future - The Crisis Summit
- 35 35. Conflict Over Cruise - The Challenge to Heseltine
- 36 36. Capping the Rates - Jenkin Joins Battle
1984
1984 · 36 episodes
1984
1984 · 36 episodes
- 1 1. Privatising State Industries - Against the Public Interest?
- 2 2. The Prime Minister - The Second Term
- 3 3. Labour Under Kinnock - Charting the Way Back
- 4 4. The Trade Unions - Facing the Future
- 5 5. Standards in Schools - Joseph's Plan for Action
- 6 6. Andropov's Heirs - Facing the Future
- 7 7. The Future of the Falklands - A Settlement in Sight?
- 8 8. Acid Rain - The Quiet Killer
- 9 9. After GCHQ - The Tories Count the Cost
- 10 10. The Miners - Solidarity or Surrender?
- 11 11. Britain and Europe - Showdown or Settlement?
- 12 12. El Salvador's Election - Washington's Crisis
- 13 13. The Miners' Strike - Confrontation or Collapse?
- 14 14. The NATO Alliance - Still Europe's Best Hope?
- 15 15. The End of the Battle... the Start of the War?
- 16 16. The Miners' Strike - A Threat to Labour
- 17 17. The Irish Forum - A Step Towards Peace?
- 18 18. Handing Over Hong Kong - The Dangers for Britain
- 19 19. The Gulf War - Reaching a Flashpoint?
- 20 20. South Africa - In from the Cold?
- 21 21. Third World Debt - Trigger for a Crash?
- 22 22. Social Security - Meeting the Need?
- 23 23. Special: Can Thatcher Beat the Strikers?
- 24 24. The Miners' Strike - A Battle for Britain
- 25 25. The Belgrano Affair - Salvaging the Truth
- 26 26. Labour Defence Policy - Too Brittle a Shield?
- 27 27. Unemployment in Britain - What Can Be Done?
- 28 28. Unemployment in Britain - What Will Be Done?
- 29 29. The Miners' Strike - Settlement in Sight?
- 30 30. India After Indira - Facing the Future
- 31 31. Reagan and the Russians - The Next Four Years
- 32 32. The Miners' Strike - A Fight to the Finish
- 33 33. The Abolition Bill - Streamlining the Cities
- 34 34. Tories in Revolt - The Challenge to Thatcher
- 35 35. The Trade Unions - Clashing with the Courts
- 36 36. Gorbachev's Visit - Breaking the Ice?
1985
1985 · 36 episodes
1985
1985 · 36 episodes
- 1 1. The Government in 1985 - Facing Backbench Revolt
- 2 2. The Case of Baby Cotton - Creation Out of Control?
- 3 3. Neil Kinnock - The Task for Labour
- 4 4. The Miners' Strike - How Close is Peace?
- 5 5. Gibraltar - Staying British?
- 6 6. The Miners' Strike - Peace in the Pits?
- 7 7. The Soaring Dollar - Threatening Britain?
- 8 8. The AIDS Scare - Fact and Fiction
- 9 9. The Arms Talks - What Chances of Success?
- 10 10. The Teachers' Dispute - Crisis in the Classroom?
- 11 11. A Budget... for Jobs
- 12 12. What Future for Broadcasting?
- 13 13. Starving Africa - What Can Be Done?
- 14 14. Lebanon's Tragedy - The Final Act?
- 15 15. The Labour Party - Ready for Take-Off?
- 16 16. The Bonn Summit - The Dangers of Deadlock
- 17 17. Thatcher's Rates Pledge - Who'll Gain and Who'll Lose?
- 18 18. The SDP/Liberal Alliance
- 19 19. South Africa - Change or Conflict?
- 20 20. England's Shame - What Is to Be Done?
- 21 21. South Africa and the West - Time for Action?
- 22 22. New Mood
- 23 23. South Africa
- 24 24. AIDS
- 25 25. Episode 25
- 26 26. Urban Riots
- 27 27. Episode 27
- 28 28. Episode 28
- 29 29. Episode 29
- 30 30. Episode 30
- 31 31. The Thatcher Interview - The Position So Far
- 32 32. Episode 32
- 33 33. Episode 33
- 34 34. Northern Ireland and the Anglo-Irish Agreement
- 35 35. Episode 35
- 36 36. Episode 36
1986
1986 · 36 episodes
1986
1986 · 36 episodes
- 1 1. Michael Heseltine
- 2 2. Leon Brittan and Westland
- 3 3. Douglas Hurd
- 4 4. Episode 4
- 5 5. Episode 5
- 6 6. Episode 6
- 7 7. Oil
- 8 8. Episode 8
- 9 9. THORP - Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant
- 10 10. Episode 10
- 11 11. Sale of Leyland
- 12 12. Episode 12
- 13 13. Episode 13
- 14 14. Episode 14
- 15 15. Episode 15
- 16 16. Episode 16
- 17 17. Episode 17
- 18 18. Episode 18
- 19 19. Episode 19
- 20 20. Episode 20
- 21 21. Episode 21
- 22 22. The SDP and the Liberals - An Alliance Divide?
- 23 23. Trade War Ahead?
- 24 24. Nuclear Energy - The Critical Decision
- 25 25. The Tory Party - A New Vision?
- 26 26. Rendezvous in Reykjavík - Coming in from the Cold?
- 27 27. Labour's Defence Policy - Heading Out of NATO?
- 28 28. AIDS - Incurable, Unstoppable?
- 29 29. Austin Rover - The End of the Line?
- 30 30. Post Reykjavík
- 31 31. Baker and the Teachers - Battle in the Schools
- 32 32. Iran and the West - Deals or Hostility?
- 33 33. The Iran Scandal - A President Diminished?
- 34 34. Baker and the Schools - Big Changes Ahead?
- 35 35. Corrupt City Deals - What's to Be Done?
- 36 36. The AIDS Campaign... and the AIDS Generation
1987
1987 · 36 episodes
1987
1987 · 36 episodes
- 1 1. The Next General Election - Can the Tories Be Beaten?
- 2 2. Reagan's Deficit - Trade War Ahead?
- 3 3. Stalker/Sampson Inquiries Into the RUC
- 4 4. The SDP/Liberal Alliance - What Chances for Take-Off?
- 5 5. Labour's Jobs Plan - A Credible Alternative?
- 6 6. The Future of the Land - Greenery or Concrete?
- 7 7. Tactical Voting - An Electoral Revolution?
- 8 8. After Greenwich - The Alliance Challenge
- 9 9. Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster
- 10 10. Tax Cuts for the Rich - Good or Bad for Britain?
- 11 11. Private Renting - Ripe for Development?
- 12 12. Gorbachev's Russia - A New Dawn?
- 13 13. Labour's Election Offensive - Kinnock Opens His Campaign
- 14 14. The SDP/Liberal Alliance - A Hung Parliament Manifesto?
- 15 15. European Defence - A New Era?
- 16 16. The Threat to the Atmosphere - Time to Act Now?
- 17 17. Volatile Voters - The Decisive Factor?
- 18 18. The General Election - Can Thatcher Be Stopped?
- 19 19. Fighting Unemployment - Whose Way Forward?
- 20 20. Defending Britain - The Nuclear Issue
- 21 21. Health, Housing and Schools - Whose Way Forward?
- 22 22. The Conservative Triumph - Going on and on and on?
- 23 23. The Arms Agreement - Will Europe Be a Safer Place?
- 24 24. Monarchy and Government - Are They Poles Apart?
- 25 25. Inner Cities - Promises, Promises
- 26 26. The Poll Tax - Fair and Workable?
- 27 27. Late Abortion - Time to Call a Halt?
- 28 28. The Crash of '87 - Recession on the Way?
- 29 29. The Crash of '87 - The Impact on Britain
- 30 30. Lawson and the Crash - A Slump on the Way?
- 31 31. Nicaragua's Dirty War - Is Peace Breaking Out?
- 32 32. David Owen - Phoenix from the Ashes
- 33 33. Pass or Fail?
- 34 34. The Washington Summit - End of the Superpowers?
- 35 35. The Underclass - A World Apart
- 36 36. Rethinking the NHS - End of a Free Service?
1988
1988 · 22 episodes
1988
1988 · 22 episodes
- 1 1. The Secretative State - Time to Curb Its Power?
- 2 2. Alliance in Crisis - Can It Be Saved?
- 3 3. Homosexuality - Back to the Straight and Narrow?
- 4 4. Human Embryos - A Right to Life?
- 5 5. Uprising in Palestine - Anger in Ireland
- 6 6. Privatising Electricity - The End of Nuclear Power?
- 7 7. Third Term Thatcherism - A Permanent Revolution?
- 8 8. The Future of ITV - Never Mind the Quality?
- 9 9. Britain's New Party - Can It Replace Labour?
- 10 10. The Tax Cut Budget - How Far Should Lawson Go?
- 11 11. Families in Poverty - Ripping Up the Safety Net
- 12 12. After Reagan - A Democrat in the White House?
- 13 13. Neil Kinnock's Leadership - A New Vision for Labour?
- 14 14. Government and Unions - Where Next?
- 15 15. Eastern Europe's Perestroika - Will It End in Tears?
- 16 16. The Tories in Scotland - Thatcherism in a Cold Climate?
- 17 17. The Speaker of the House - Protector of Parliament?
- 18 18. Ulster's Long War - A Window for Peace?
- 19 19. Britain Into the Nineties - Richer, Rougher and Tougher?
- 20 20. Gorbachev's Next Battle - Taking on the System
- 21 21. Reaganism in Retreat - What Chance for Bush?
- 22 22. Thatcher's Britain - The Unfinished Revolution
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