Dispatches (1987)

Dispatches

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.

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Seasons

Season 1

1987

Season 2

1988

Season 3

1989

Season 4

1990

Season 5

1991

Season 6

1992

Season 7

1993

Season 8

1994

Season 9

1995

Season 10

1996

Season 11

1997

Season 12

1998

Season 13

1999

Season 14

2000

Season 15

2001

Season 16

2002

Season 17

2003

Season 18

2004

Season 19

2005

Season 20

2006

Season 21

2007

Season 22

2008

Season 23

2009

Season 24

2010

Season 25

2011

Season 26

2012

Season 27

2013

Season 28

2014

Season 29

2015

Season 30

2016

Season 31

2017

Season 32

2018

Season 33

2019

Season 34

2020

Season 35

2021

Season 36

2022

Season 37

2023

Season 38

2024

Season 39

2025

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Dispatches

  • 1x2

    In the red

  • 1x3

    Aids - the unheard voices

  • 1x4

    Divided by law

  • 1x5

    Selling the tunnel

  • 1x6

    Gunning for government

  • 1x7

    Kimberly carlile - falling through the net

  • 1x8

    Korea: poverty prohibited

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    The miner's debate

  • 2x2

    Waiting for the consultant

  • 2x3

    Danger! men at work

  • 2x4

    Interview with john stalker

  • 2x5

    Iran

  • 2x6

    Palau

  • 2x7

    Working for welfare

  • 2x8

    Radioactive britain

  • 2x9

    The lobby

  • 2x10

    Charity fraud

  • 2x11

    Single union deals with employers

  • 2x12

    Cuba from inside

  • 2x13

    Talking to the terrorists

  • 2x14

    Cancer research

  • 2x15

    Freemasonry

  • 2x16

    The p.l.o.

  • 2x17

    War in the desert

  • 2x18

    Nato's nuclear programme

  • 2x19

    Illegal betting

  • 2x20

    What's best for the children? : coventry

  • 2x21

    The raid on san fernando: communist rebels in the philippines

  • 2x22

    Milky business

  • 2x23

    The hashish connection

  • 2x24

    Disciples of chaos

  • 2x25

    Trouble on the waterfront

  • 2x26

    The two state solution

  • 2x27

    Turkey: trading with torture

  • 2x28

    Exporting high technology from west to east

  • 2x29

    Tibet - a case to answer

  • 2x30

    The day the dream died

  • 2x31

    The winds of death

  • 2x32

    The battle for stone bassett

  • 2x33

    The countertraders

  • 2x34

    A very polish secret

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    Return to year zero?

  • 3x2

    Gorbachev's asylums

  • 3x3

    Cooking the books

  • 3x4

    The spy who broke the code

  • 3x5

    Buckets of money

  • 3x6

    The copper seven story

  • 3x7

    Afghan

  • 3x8

    The toxic trail

  • 3x9

    The case of 'f'

  • 3x10

    The return of the death squads

  • 3x11

    Burma - dying for democracy

  • 3x12

    Voices from long larten

  • 3x13

    Young, homeless and broke

  • 3x14

    Chico

  • 3x15

    Carry on flying

  • 3x16

    The most neglected crime

  • 3x17

    Dispatches (26/04/1989)

  • 3x18

    A suitable case for treatment

  • 3x19

    The sins of the fathers

  • 3x20

    Not what the doctor ordered

  • 3x21

    Warlord of kayan

  • 3x22

    The ultimate blasphemy

  • 3x23

    Fit as a fiddle

  • 3x24

    Empire of the sun

  • 3x25

    Year of the locust

  • 3x26

    A state of decay

  • 3x27

    Terror island

  • 3x28

    The spanish connection

  • 3x29

    The day of the technopath

  • 3x30

    No, prime minister

  • 3x31

    The undoing of edwina

  • 3x32

    Mission impossible

  • 3x33

    In the coal hole

  • 3x34

    The false confession file

  • 3x35

    Hungarians not comrades

  • 3x36

    Twelve days in november

  • 3x37

    Licence to kill

  • 3x38

    Privatising poland

  • 3x39

    Road to damascus

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    The plunderers

  • 4x2

    When porton pays the piper

  • 4x3

    Gamma alarm

  • 4x4

    The great leap backwards

  • 4x5

    Miracle molecule

  • 4x6

    Degrees for sale

  • 4x7

    Stalin's ghost

  • 4x8

    Troubled waters

  • 4x9

    Beyond the rubicon

  • 4x10

    A greater germany

  • 4x11

    Gerry

  • 4x12

    Legalise it!

  • 4x13

    In the name of hunger

  • 4x14

    Apartheid's assassins

  • 4x15

    Terms for peace

  • 4x16

    The children of fire

  • 4x17

    The russians a coming

  • 4x18

    The most neglected crime

  • 4x19

    The great green hype

  • 4x20

    Romanian roulette

  • 4x21

    A tale of two cartels

  • 4x22

    Dispatches (30/05/1990)

  • 4x23

    The stasi tapes

  • 4x24

    The aids catch

  • 4x25

    Eritrea: fight to the death

  • 4x26

    Game on the ice

  • 4x27

    Guinness - the inside story

  • 4x28

    Listen to the children

  • 4x29

    Rivers of fire

  • 4x30

    Bad meat trail

  • 4x31

    The oregon formula

  • 4x32

    Black and blue

  • 4x33

    Moscow's mafia millions

  • 4x34

    Kingmaker of karachi

  • 4x35

    Divided she falls?

  • 4x36

    A good and faithful servant

  • 4x37

    The case against war

  • 4x38

    Against the odds

  • 4x39

    The prozac file

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    Giant of the gulf

  • 5x2

    What happened at christmas island

  • 5x3

    Mr bush's road to war

  • 5x4

    Hanson trust

  • 5x5

    Saddam's secret army

  • 5x6

    Crackdown

  • 5x7

    Skeletons have names

  • 5x8

    The provoked wife

  • 5x9

    Thinking of the soldier

  • 5x10

    Voices from tibet

  • 5x11

    A very british recession

  • 5x12

    Keep on running

  • 5x13

    Strange case of democracy

  • 5x14

    Sir john's shuttle

  • 5x15

    A dream betrayed

  • 5x16

    Tapping into toxnet

  • 5x17

    Mr major's number 10

  • 5x18

    The promised land

  • 5x19

    The ballot fixers

  • 5x20

    The arthur legend

  • 5x21

    Saddam's iraq

  • 5x22

    Castro's secret fix

  • 5x23

    The movement

  • 5x24

    The committee

  • 5x25

    Strange customs

  • 5x26

    In the cleaning machine

  • 5x27

    Every child in britain

  • 5x28

    Georgian nightmare

  • 5x29

    Missing in action

  • 5x30

    The swiss connection

  • 5x31

    The last taboo

  • 5x32

    The truth that sets us free

  • 5x33

    Don king, unauthorised

  • 5x34

    Holding the baby

  • 5x35

    Christmas in kurdistan

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    The audit of war

  • 6x2

    Patent on life

  • 6x3

    Mother russia's children

  • 6x4

    The hanson file

  • 6x5

    Sick at heart

  • 6x6

    Azt - cause for concern

  • 6x7

    Beyond faith

  • 6x8

    The law of the ghetto

  • 6x9

    A question of sizewell

  • 6x10

    The end of the union?

  • 6x11

    Election 1992: democracy in danger

  • 6x12

    Election 1992: every child in britain

  • 6x13

    Election 1992: the issue they don't debate

  • 6x14

    Campaign diary

  • 6x15

    Red star unwrapped

  • 6x16

    Cloud over europe

  • 6x17

    The return to olympia

  • 6x18

    Blind data

  • 6x19

    Hidden assets

  • 6x20

    Body search

  • 6x21

    The czechoslovak casino

  • 6x22

    For queen or country?

  • 6x23

    The people of the shining path

  • 6x24

    Missing in action

  • 6x25

    Not quite forever

  • 6x26

    Relative hell

  • 6x27

    Bordering on big brother

  • 6x28

    Visible harm?

  • 6x29

    Germans for sale

  • 6x30

    The 'r' word

  • 6x31

    The first thatcherite

  • 6x32

    The generation game

  • 6x33

    All the presidency men

  • 6x34

    Dying to diet

Episodes season 7

Episodes season 8

Episodes season 9

Episodes season 10

Episodes season 11

Episodes season 12

  • 12x1

    The war business

Episodes season 13

Episodes season 14

Episodes season 15

Episodes season 16

Episodes season 17

Episodes season 18

Episodes season 19

Episodes season 20

  • 20x8

    After school arms club

Episodes season 21

  • 21x3

    Undercover mosque

Episodes season 22

Episodes season 23

Episodes season 24

  • 24x9

    Children of gaza

  • 24x13

    The lost girls of south africa

Episodes season 25

Episodes season 26

  • 26x24

    Nuclear war games

Episodes season 27

Episodes season 28

Episodes season 29

  • 29x1

    How to blow your pension

  • 29x2

    Low pay britain

  • 29x3

    The great car con

  • 29x4

    Secrets of the parking wardens

  • 29x5

    Politicians for hire

  • 29x6

    Britain's benefits crackdown

  • 29x7

    Benefits britain

  • 29x8

    Britain's defence squeeze

  • 29x9

    How to buy a meeting with a minister

  • 29x10

    How safe are our planes?

  • 29x11

    The secrets of sports direct

  • 29x12

    Trains: are you paying too much?

  • 29x13

    Where to save your money

  • 29x14

    Exams: cheating the system?

  • 29x15

    The great british property divide

  • 29x16

    Salt: are you eating too much?

  • 29x17

    Kids in crisis

  • 29x18

    How councils blow your millions

  • 29x19

    Pensions and the price of growing old

  • 29x20

    Escape from isis

  • 29x21

    Hunted: gay and afraid

  • 29x22

    Britain's benefits experiment

  • 29x23

    Aldi's supermarket secrets

Episodes season 30

  • 30x1

    Where's my missing mail?

  • 30x2

    How the rich avoid tax

  • 30x3

    999: where's my ambulance?

  • 30x4

    Dirty secrets: what's really in our air?

  • 30x5

    Fight against isis

  • 30x6

    How to be a council house millionaire

  • 30x7

    Housing benefit millionaires

  • 30x8

    Secrets of cadbury

  • 30x9

    Britain's pensioner care scandal

  • 30x10

    The great benefits row

  • 30x11

    Isis and the missing treasures

  • 30x12

    The truth about cheap flights

  • 30x13

    Undercover: inside britain's children's services

  • 30x14

    Are you owed a pay rise?

  • 30x15

    Racist britain

  • 30x16

    Is your pension safe?

  • 30x17

    How school bosses spend your millions

  • 30x18

    How safe is your car?

  • 30x19

    Brexit: who'll do your job now?

  • 30x20

    The great housing scandal

  • 30x21

    The battle for the labour party

  • 30x22

    Britain's aborton extremists

  • 30x23

    Britain's wealth gap

  • 30x24

    Living with nightmare neighbours

  • 30x25

    Addicted to spending

  • 30x26

    The secret plan to save fat britain

  • 30x27

    Britain's homebuilding scandal

  • 30x28

    The world according to president trump

Episodes season 31

  • 31x1

    President trump's dirty secrets

  • 31x2

    Undercover: britain's cheap clothes (1)

  • 31x3

    Undercover: britain's cheap clothes (2)

  • 31x4

    Undercover: britain's homeless scandal

  • 31x5

    Supermarkets: brexit and your shrinking shop

  • 31x6

    Inside britain's airports

  • 31x7

    Under lock and key

  • 31x8

    Brexit: crisis on the wards

  • 31x9

    Britain's benefit families

  • 31x10

    Syria's disappeared: the case against assad

  • 31x11

    Secrets of coca-cola

  • 31x12

    President trump: how scared should we be?

  • 31x13

    Isis and the battle for iraq

  • 31x14

    Trump, the doctor and the vaccine scandal

  • 31x15

    Bupa care homes undercover

  • 31x16

    Brexit - how to get a british passport

  • 31x17

    Secrets of your cruise

  • 31x18

    Secrets of britain's new homes

  • 31x19

    Secrets of your new car

  • 31x20

    How to get a pay rise

  • 31x21

    Trump & russia: sex, spies and scandal

  • 31x22

    Who deserves a pay rise?

  • 31x23

    Is britain full?

  • 31x24

    Trouble on the trains

  • 31x25

    The fight for mosul

  • 31x26

    The great housing scandal

  • 31x27

    How to avoid the dementia tax

  • 31x28

    Al fayed behind closed doors

Episodes season 32

  • 32x1

    Politicians for hire: cashing in on brexit

  • 32x2

    Undercover in premier inn

  • 32x3

    Football's wall of silence

  • 32x4

    Undercover: inside the priory

  • 32x5

    Britain's university spending scandal

  • 32x6

    The fgm detectives

  • 32x7

    Undercover: who's policing your bank?

  • 32x8

    Who speaks for british muslims?

  • 32x9

    The truth about your pay

  • 32x10

    Russian spy assassins: the salisbury attack

  • 32x11

    Britain's diesel scandal

  • 32x12

    The true cost of green energy

  • 32x13

    Britain's benefits crisis

  • 32x14

    Myanmar's killing fields

  • 32x15

    After grenfell, how safe are we?

  • 32x16

    Getting rich from the housing crisis

  • 32x17

    Inside facebook: secrets of the social network

  • 32x18

    Homeless and working

  • 32x19

    Breastfeeding uncovered

  • 32x20

    Plot to kill: britain's neo-nazi terrorists

  • 32x21

    How to lose seven billion pounds

  • 32x22

    Lawless britain: where are the police?

  • 32x23

    Witness intimidation revealed: stitches for snitches

  • 32x24

    Cannabis: time to end the ban?

  • 32x25

    Born on the breadline

  • 32x26

    North korea: life inside the secret state

Episodes season 33

  • 33x1

    The truth about vegans

  • 33x2

    Skipping school: britain's invisible kids

  • 33x3

    Hs2: the great train robbery

  • 33x4

    Grenfell: did the fire brigade fail?

  • 33x5

    Safe at last: inside a women's refuge

  • 33x6

    Britain's knife crisis: young, armed and dangerous

  • 33x7

    The brexit millionaires

  • 33x8

    Great formula milk scandal

  • 33x9

    New landlords from hell

  • 33x10

    Britain's hidden war

  • 33x11

    When the immigrants leave

  • 33x12

    Jeremy kyle: tv on trial

  • 33x13

    The truth about chlorinated chicken

  • 33x14

    Britain's toxic air scandal

  • 33x15

    How safe are your medicines?

  • 33x16

    Britain's breast implant scandal

  • 33x17

    Officer down - police under attack

  • 33x18

    Battle for the tory party

  • 33x19

    Britain's new build scandal

  • 33x20

    £2 million passport: welcome to britain

  • 33x21

    Young, british and depressed

  • 33x22

    Sex, drugs and murder

  • 33x23

    The prince and the paedophile

  • 33x24

    Trump's plan for the nhs

  • 33x25

    Puppet masters: the men who really run britain

  • 33x26

    The secrets of amazon

  • 33x27

    Homeless and pregnant

  • 33x28

    Growing up poor: britain's breadline kids

Episodes season 34

  • 34x1

    The secrets of big tobacco: has philip morris international really given up smoking?

  • 34x2

    Starbucks & nespresso: the truth about your coffee

  • 34x3

    Celebs for sale: the great charity scandal

  • 34x4

    Britain's train hell

  • 34x5

    Sex, money & power: the dirty secrets of davos

  • 34x6

    Coronavirus: can our nhs cope?

  • 34x7

    Coronavirus: how britain is changing

  • 34x8

    The truth about traveller crime

  • 34x9

    Britain's coronavirus catastrophe

  • 34x10

    Dirty secrets of american food: coming to a supermarket near you?

Episodes season 35

  • 35x1

    Britain's £400bn covid bill: who will pay?

Episodes season 36

  • 36x1

    Boris johnson: has he run out of road?

  • 36x2

    China: the search for the missing

  • 36x3

    Ukraine: on the front line with johnny mercer

  • 36x4

    Cadbury exposed

  • 36x5

    Why are your energy bills so high?

  • 36x6

    Are we losing the war on terror?

  • 36x7

    Inside the metaverse: are you safe?

  • 36x8

    The enemy within: the far right

  • 36x9

    The truth about nike and adidas

  • 36x10

    Mps under threat

  • 36x11

    Corrupt cops: what the met knew

  • 36x12

    Ukraine: life under attack

  • 36x13

    Myanmar: the forgotten revolution

  • 36x14

    Airport chaos undercover

  • 36x15

    Why is my car so expensive?

  • 36x16

    Britain's water scandal

  • 36x17

    Broke: britain's debt emergency

  • 36x18

    Britain's evicted kids

  • 36x19

    Hospital undercover are they safe?

  • 36x20

    Trapped, disabled & abused

  • 36x21

    Cops in crisis

Episodes season 37

  • 37x1

    Strippers, spies & russian money

  • 37x2

    Undercover ambulance: nhs chaos

  • 37x3

    Locked away: our autism scandal

  • 37x4

    Britain's forgotten pensioners

  • 37x5

    Boris, the lord & the russian spy

  • 37x6

    Sri lanka's easter bombings

  • 37x7

    Russell brand: in plain sight

  • 37x8

    Hunting russia's lost boys

Episodes season 38

  • 38x1

    Coca-cola's dirty secret

  • 38x2

    The war on britain's motorists

  • 38x3

    Kill zone : inside gaza

  • 38x4

    The truth about temu

  • 38x5

    Rubbish tip britain

  • 38x6

    Undercover a&e: nhs in crisis

  • 38x7

    Can ai steal your vote?

  • 38x8

    Britain's unsolved crimewave

  • 38x9

    Barbie's dirty secrets

  • 38x10

    Vinted's dirty laundry

  • 38x11

    The king, the prince & their secret millions

  • 38x12

    Britain's shoplifting gangs exposed

  • 38x13

    Britain's benefits scandal

Episodes season 39

  • 39x1

    Skinny jab scandal

  • 39x2

    Delivered to a predator: al fayed's fixer

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