1: The Aristocracy Business
Sep 5, 1968
Alan Whicker investigates the aristocracy, talking to rich peers and land-owners, including the Baron of Guiseborough, the Baron of Faversham, Viscount Down, and George Howard (Castle Howard).
Season 2
Whicker's World
10 EPISODES • 1968
Season 2 of Whicker's World was released on September 5 and consists of 10 episodes.Episodes
2: Tankers/Boat People (Hong Kong)
Feb 15, 1970
It’s the Chinese New Year’s Day and Alan Whicker focuses on a picturesque Chinese race and their strange ‘centuries-old’ pattern of life - the Boat People, whose homes, shops, restaurants and brothels (or ‘flower-boats’) all float.
3: Devil’s Island
Jan 7, 1971
The most dreaded island in the world has been undisturbed and decaying for a few silent years. Alan Whicker seeks out ex-convicts who survived the Island’s unspeakable cruelties, and parts the curtain on a grisly stage where 75,000 Bagnards lived, fought and died.
4: Pixie Dust on the Goodie Goodie Land
Sep 5, 1971
Alan Whicker discusses the coming of Disneyworld to Florida. The special magic of Disneyworld is explored and Whicker finds himself judged unacceptable by the tribe of ‘apostles’ preparing to spread pixie dust on ten million people a year.
5: Vienna - Come in Doctor Freud, All is Forgiven
Sep 24, 1975
This week Whicker discovers vienna and its people
6: You Stopped Being a Pigeon When You Got Your Throat Cut
Jun 9, 1976
Whicker is in the Great Central Desert of Australia and the mostly underground environs of Coober Pedy, the centre for Opal mining, the real outback that's for sure.
7: Charleston, South Carolina - You Used to Call Me Boy, Now You Got To Call Me Mr Boy
Sep 21, 1977
In this episode he looks at the way the lives of the black community has changed since the 1920's
8: Anchorage, Alaska - The Ultimate Dream, the Last Chance to Do it Right
Sep 7, 1977
Alan Whicker heads north to the spectacular landscpe of Alaska. It has the most hostile conditions in the world; Winter temperatures average minus 60 degrees, if there’s a wind, it can plummet below minus 100 degrees and the nights last two months.
9: Nothing is Utopia, This Comes Pretty Close
May 7, 1980
Alan Whicker meets some of the 50,000 Britons that have made Los Angeles their home, drinking in English-style pubs and playing cricket. He interviews Christopher Lee and Peter Sellers and also meets that model of Englishness, Patrick Macnee, who admits he would like to die in Dorset.
10: The Absolute Monarch
Jun 10, 1992
Alan Whicker joins the Sultan of Brunei (reputedly the richest man in the world) in his kingdom on the island of Borneo. He joins in the silver jubilee celebrations and meets the Sultan’s family and his army.
Season 3
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