Rent Whicker's World: Vol.1 (1980)
6h 40min
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- Synopsis:
Eight of the most representative episodes from the popular travel show that ran from 1959 to 1988 on British television, chosen by Alan Whicker himself.
Papa Doc: The Black Sheep (1969)
Haiti was the world's first black republic, ruled from 1957 to 1971 by 'President For Life' Dr. Francis Duvalier - Papa Doc. Whicker meets Papa Doc in his Presidential Palace at Port au Prince in the company of his Tontons Macoutes - murderous civilian thugs.
Whicker in Stroessner's Paraguay: The Last Dictator (1970)Alan Whicker comes face-to-face with the last of South America's old style dictators - Don Alfredo Stroessner who has been absolute ruler of Paraguay for 19 years. One Paraguayan in ten is said to be a paid informer and the Minister of information has admitted there are so many informers that they run out of information and have to make it up.
Harold Robbins: I'm the World's Best Writer (1971)
Harold Robbins, 56 and five times married, is the orphan who became the world's best paid writer. In New York he takes Alan Whicker round the Devil's Kitchen district of his youth. This won the Best Interview Programme Award at 1973's Hollywood Festival of World Television.
I'd Like to Think I'm Nearer to God Than Frankenstein (1973)
In California they change faces as casually as we change clothes and cosmetic surgery is no longer only for the rich and famous. Whicker meets plastic surgeon Kurt Wagner and his wife Kathy, a walking example of his surgery skills.
I Haven't Taken My Own Shoes Off for 45 Years! (1976)
Whicker arrives in Penang for the island's spectacular Thalpusam festival, where entranced pilgrims pierce themselves with giant spikes. He also meets a Scottish doctor still living in the style of the British Raj.
He's Been Hunted All His Life: Now He's Going to Rest in Peace (1977)
Butch Cassidy's sister Lula is alive and well and living in Utah, aged 94 and with a fund of fascinating stories. In Salt Lake City Whicker drives the hydrogen car, learns from Dinosaur Jim why these monsters face a new extinction, and sees the world's biggest man-made hole. (There are slight edits for clearance reasons. No Whicker footage has been removed.).
I Wear a Uniform and Pack a Gun But I'm Still a Woman (Part 1) (1980)
Whicker undertakes a risky assignment, hurtling around San Francisco in the back of a police car. The cops are women, fully armed and determined to prove they are worthy of the blue uniform. Please Note, this episode contains some strong language.
If a Cop Wiggled Around with Pink Hair and a Limp Wrist, It Would Discredit the Department (Part 2) (1980)
San Francisco's 150,000 homosexuals are the city's largest unofficial minority. The Police Department has become the first in the US to knowingly recruit gay officers. Whicker gives an exclusive view of the first gay officers training and going on patrol.- Actors:
- Alan Whicker, Rosalie Adolphe, Francois Duvalier, Don Alfredo Stroessner, Lula Parker Betenson, Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond
- Directors:
- David Greene, Michael Blakstad, Michael Deakin, Nigel Turner, Peter Robinson, Peter Batty
- Producers:
- Nigel Turner
- Narrated By:
- Alan Whicker
- Writers:
- Alan Whicker
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Documentaries, TV Reality Programming
