The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2000
Every episode of Panorama season 2000, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2000!
Panorama is a BBC Television current affairs documentary programme. First broadcast in 1953, it is the world's longest-running public affairs television programme.
#1 - England's Shame
Season 2000 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/20/2000
In a special investigation, Panorama goes undercover with English supporters at Euro 2000.
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Season 2000 - Episode 32 - Aired 11/19/2000
A Panorama special reveals what is behind this autumn's weird weather, and how it will affect our lives.
#3 - The Mortgage Timebomb
Season 2000 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/22/2000
Anxiety is gripping millions of homeowners as the hear that they could be thousands of pounds short of paying off their endowment-linked mortgage. David Lomax reveals how companies which pushed endowments in the past, are now giving bad advice on how to deal with the shortfall.
#4 - The Bent Cop
Season 2000 - Episode 34 - Aired 12/3/2000
A police detective turned supergrass tells the remarkable story of corruption in the Metropolitan Police's Regional Crime Squad. A tale of policemen engaged in robbery, drug dealing and violence. He talks exclusively of how he and fellow officers became criminals. Then the dramatic change of heart that led him to blow the whistle.
#5 - The Pensions Bubble
Season 2000 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/5/2000
It's the golden retirement dream - leave work early and live it up on a generous occupational pension. And many people have managed to make that dream a reality. But now companies are changing the rules and calling time on the pensions party.
#6 - Gangmasters
Season 2000 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/19/2000
Undercover investigation into the criminals who send gangs of illegal workers to companies that supply some of our biggest supermarket chains.
#7 - The Truth About Rubbish
Season 2000 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/26/2000
We're all chucking out more than ever before, but we're about to face attempts to force us to change our ways.
#8 - The Nailbomber
Season 2000 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/30/2000
Neo-nazi David Copeland launched a a nailbombing campaign in London in 1999, culminating in the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho which killed three people. In this special investigation Panorama investigates and confronts the right wing extremists who inspired him to do what he he did.
#9 - Cyber Attack!
Season 2000 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/3/2000
With the world still reeling from the Lovebug virus, which infected millions of computers, an investigation into the security of personal information on the Internet.
#10 - Pump Wars
Season 2000 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/25/2000
The inside stories from the biggest popular protest Tony Blair's ever faced.
#11 - Britain's Secret War On Drugs
Season 2000 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/2/2000
Panorama uncovers the controversial British-backed biological weapon that's being developed to destroy the world's heroin drug crops.
#12 - Who Bombed Omagh?
Season 2000 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/9/2000
Twenty nine people, many of them children, died on a summer Saturday in the worst atrocity of the troubles. Two years on, no one has yet been brought to justice.
#13 - Gap And Nike: No Sweat?
Season 2000 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/15/2000
Gap and Nike say their top-selling clothes are made under the strictest ethical codes. Paul Kenyon uncovers some disturbing realities.
#14 - Digging The Dirt
Season 2000 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/22/2000
The secret story of the Gore v. Bush presidential fight. Negative adverts, allegations of dirty tricks, the involvement of America's most notorious pornographer - it's all part of this hidden world.
#15 - Young Robbers
Season 2000 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/29/2000
The number of street muggings in Britain rose by over a quarter last year and most of the victims were children. Panorama reveals the controversial tactics being used by West Midlands Police to crackdown on these young robbers.
#16 - Power To Abuse
Season 2000 - Episode 30 - Aired 11/5/2000
The Roman Catholic Church in Wales is in turmoil over its second child abuse scandal in two years with a priest yet again receiving a lengthy prison sentence for indecently assaulting children. Phil Parry investigates the background to these cases and the role of the man in charge of the Church, Archbishop John Aloysius Ward.
#17 - Life On TV
Season 2000 - Episode 31 - Aired 11/12/2000
Reality TV is the social phenomenon of the millennium. Programmes like Big Brother and Survivor have taken the TV schedules by storm on both sides of the Atlantic, but they have also raised disturbing issues about the exploitation of participants.
#18 - In the Name of the Children
Season 2000 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/26/2000
It is the crime guaranteed to horrify every jury - the sexual abuse of children by the carers entrusted to look after them. But are there men being branded paedophiles and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for crimes they did not commit?
#19 - The Two Billion Pound Ball Game
Season 2000 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/15/2000
The impending auction of football's TV rights will result in a two billion pound bonanza for the beautiful game. The competing TV companies are promising better coverage than ever before but there's a cost for both the fans and football itself.
#20 - The Dying Game
Season 2000 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/17/2000
Fergal Keane investigates the fastest growing AIDS epidemic in the world. Four million South Africans are already HIV positive. 1700 more are infected everyday.
#21 - Kids On Pills
Season 2000 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/10/2000
The prescription of psychiatric drugs to young children has rocketed in the last few years. Drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac are being increasingly used to treat what psychiatrists argue are recognised behavioural disorders. There is growing concern on both sides of the Atlantic that pills are now being used as a substitute for good parenting.
#22 - Ivory Wars
Season 2000 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/5/2000
Panorama reports on the flourishing illegal trade in ivory spurred on by demand from the far east, which has resulted in elephant orphanages in Kenya.
#23 - Dot Com Fever
Season 2000 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/3/2000
As Dot Com fever sweeps through Britain, Panorama investigates the internet phenomenon that is becoming Britain's millennium gold rush.
#24 - Atomic Alert
Season 2000 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/27/2000
Two companies, British Nuclear Fuels - who've been found guilty of "systematic management failure", and Lockheed Martin - officially criticised over safety at several American sites, are part of the new consortium at Aldermaston.
#25 - Blighted
Season 2000 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/20/2000
In Cheshire an ICI toxic dump has poisoned a village. In London and the South East thousands of new homes are being built on polluted land. The Government promises that most of the new houses Britain needs will be built on recycled land. But how safe are we from the legacy of industrial contamination?