Ken Loach
Director
Dispatches (1987)
1989
Dispatches is the British TV current affairs documentary series on Channel 4, first transmitted in 1987. The programme covers issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.
Released Oct. 30, 1987
Episode 44 min
10+
Genres: Documentary, News
Keywords: tmdb.current-affairs, mdblist.has-trailer, tmdb.expose, tmdb.investigative-journalism, tmdb.secret-filming, imdb.investigative-journalism, imdb.reporter + 7 more, imdb.secret-filming, imdb.expose, imdb.interview, imdb.long-running-tv, imdb.current-affairs, imdb.one-word-title, imdb.reenactment
Production Companies: ITN Productions, Bigger Bang, Hardcash Productions
Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S3E1 - Return to Year Zero?
Jan. 4, 1989, midnight
S3E2 - Gorbachev's Asylums
Jan. 11, 1989, midnight
S3E3 - Cooking the Books
Jan. 18, 1989, midnight
S3E4 - The Spy Who Broke the Code
Jan. 25, 1989, midnight
S3E5 - Buckets of Money
Feb. 1, 1989, midnight
S3E6 - The Copper Seven Story
Feb. 8, 1989, midnight
S3E7 - Afghan
Feb. 15, 1989, midnight
S3E8 - The Toxic Trail
Feb. 22, 1989, midnight
S3E9 - The Case of 'F'
March 1, 1989, midnight
S3E10 - The Return of the Death Squads
March 8, 1989, midnight
S3E11 - Burma - Dying for Democracy
March 15, 1989, midnight
S3E12 - Voices From Long Larten
March 22, 1989, midnight
S3E13 - Young, Homeless and Broke
March 29, 1989, midnight
S3E14 - Chico
April 5, 1989, midnight
S3E15 - Carry on Flying
April 12, 1989, midnight
S3E16 - The Most Neglected Crime
April 19, 1989, midnight
S3E17 - Dispatches (26/04/1989)
April 26, 1989, midnight
S3E18 - A Suitable Case for Treatment
May 3, 1989, midnight
S3E19 - The Sins of the Fathers
May 10, 1989, midnight
S3E20 - Not What the Doctor Ordered
May 17, 1989, midnight
S3E21 - Warlord of Kayan
May 24, 1989, midnight
S3E22 - The Ultimate Blasphemy
May 31, 1989, midnight
S3E23 - Fit as a Fiddle
June 7, 1989, midnight
S3E24 - Empire of the Sun
June 14, 1989, midnight
S3E25 - Year of the Locust
June 21, 1989, midnight
S3E26 - A State of Decay
June 28, 1989, midnight
S3E27 - Terror Island
July 5, 1989, midnight
S3E28 - The Spanish Connection
Oct. 4, 1989, midnight
S3E29 - The Day of the Technopath
Oct. 11, 1989, midnight
S3E30 - No, Prime Minister
Oct. 18, 1989, midnight
S3E31 - The Undoing of Edwina
Oct. 25, 1989, midnight
S3E32 - Mission Impossible
Nov. 1, 1989, midnight
S3E33 - In the Coal Hole
Nov. 8, 1989, midnight
S3E34 - The False Confession File
Nov. 15, 1989, midnight
S3E35 - Hungarians Not Comrades
Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.
Nov. 22, 1989, midnight
S3E36 - Twelve Days in November
Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.
Nov. 29, 1989, midnight
S3E37 - Licence to Kill
Dec. 6, 1989, midnight
S3E38 - Privatising Poland
Dec. 13, 1989, midnight
S3E39 - Road to Damascus
Dec. 20, 1989, midnight
Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 44 min.
Season Runtime: 16796 min.
Released: Oct. 30, 1987
Last Air Date: Oct. 13, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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