The WORST episodes of Panorama

#1 - The Benefits Cap: Is It Working?

Season 2017 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/5/2017

Panorama follows parents who have had their benefits capped and are struggling to keep their homes, knowing that to escape they will have to find a job.

#2 - Iraq: The Final Judgement

Season 2016 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/29/2016

As the country awaits next week's verdict from the long-delayed Iraq Inquiry into why we went to war and what the lessons should be, Jane Corbin returns to southern Iraq. With her are parents who lost a son, a soldier, there and the general who led British troops into battle. Why did it all go so wrong?

#3 - Living with Cuts: Austerity Town

Season 2016 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/22/2016

With the new prime minister facing tough decisions on government spending cuts, Panorama reporter Richard Bilton investigates the impact of six years of austerity measures on his home town, Selby in North Yorkshire. Services are still being cut and many people are being asked to make do with less, so can a new army of volunteers bridge the gaps?

#4 - Follow My Leader

Season 1989 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1989

Anthony Howard reports for BBC Panorama into the thoughts and stratagems of the Conservative powerbrokers, from 1989.

#5 - Diabetes: The Hidden Killer

Season 2016 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/3/2016

An investigation into the health epidemic that afflicts almost one in ten people in Birmingham and can lead to heart failure, blindness, kidney disease and leg amputations.

#6 - The Trouble with Our Trains

Season 2016 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/7/2016

An investigation into the disconnect between the government and rail industry - which maintain that Britain's railways are a success - and the experience of many passengers.

#7 - Mods and Rockers

Season 1964 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/6/1964

John Morgan interviews groups of mods and rockers about their lifestyles.

#8 - Inside Britain's Fertility Business

Season 2016 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/28/2016

Fertility treatment can be an expensive business. Reporter Deborah Cohen investigates how some clinics sell add-ons - the extra drugs, tests and treatments offered on top of standard fertility care. Some can add hundreds or thousands of pounds to a bill. Exclusive new research shows a worrying lack of good evidence from trials to show these can improve the chances of having a baby. Panorama goes undercover to reveal how patients aren't always told everything they need to know when they ask some clinics about these treatments.

#9 - Marine A: The Inside Story

Season 2017 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/15/2017

Alexander Blackman has had his murder conviction for shooting an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan reduced to manslaughter. Panorama re-examines the events.

#10 - The Orlando Nightclub Massacre

Season 2016 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/27/2016

It's America's worst nightmare: an armed gunman on the rampage. But what is it like to be caught up in the carnage of a mass shooting? Panorama tells the story of the Orlando massacre from the people who were there.

#11 - Weekend 'Nazis'

Season 2007 - Episode 34 - Aired 8/27/2007

Re-enacting battles from World War Two is a popular summer pastime in the UK, but although we won the war it's the Germans that most people want to portray and the 'SS' who are the most popular of all. John Sweeney tours the biggest event of its type in Kent and discovers a darker side to the fun, with a convicted holocaust denier signing books, a trader selling a relic from Belsen and some Nazi enthusiasts expressing extreme racist views.

#12 - Trump's First 100 Days

Season 2017 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/24/2017

A Panorama special looking at the first 100 days of President Trump. Jeremy Paxman crosses the US for a wry and searching examination of the whirlwind past three months.

#13 - What Facebook Knows About You

Season 2017 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/8/2017

Facebook is thought to know more about us than any other business in history, but what does the social network that Mark Zuckerberg built do with all of our personal information?

#14 - Britain's Food & Farming: The Brexit Effect

Season 2017 - Episode 26 - Aired 7/10/2017

Tom Heap examines the likely effects of Brexit on the UK's food and farming industry, talking to insiders to determine how the changes will impact consumers.

#15 - Men, Boys & Eating Disorders

Season 2017 - Episode 28 - Aired 7/24/2017

Rugby referee Nigel Owens meets men and boys to hear their moving accounts of the impact of their eating disorders, and he confronts his own battle with bulimia.

#16 - A Prescription for Murder?

Season 2017 - Episode 29 - Aired 7/26/2017

Is it possible that a pill prescribed by your doctor can turn you into a killer? Over 40 million prescriptions for SSRI antidepressants were handed out by doctors last year in the UK. Panorama reveals the devastating side effects on a tiny minority that can lead to psychosis, violence, murder and possibly even mass murder. With exclusive access to psychiatric reports, court footage and drug company data, reporter Shelley Jofre investigates the mass killings at the 2012 midnight premiere of a Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado. A 24-year-old PhD student James Holmes, who had no record of violence or gun ownership, murdered 12 and injured 70. Did the SSRI antidepressant he had been prescribed play a part in the killings? Panorama has uncovered other cases of murder and extreme violence which could be linked to psychosis developed after the taking of SSRIs, including a father who strangled his 11-year-old son. Panorama asks if enough is known about this rare side effect.

#17 - Trouble at the RSPCA

Season 2017 - Episode 30 - Aired 8/3/2017

The RSPCA, which has been rescuing and protecting animals for almost 200 years, is one of the best-loved charities in England and Wales. Last year it secured nearly 1,500 convictions for animal welfare offences. Now Panorama's John Sweeney - and his dog Bertie - meet people who accuse the RSPCA of being heavy-handed by prosecuting them and taking away their animals when help or advice would have been more appropriate. He also asks why an RSPCA branch rehomed dogs imported from Europe. Following the RSPCA chief executive's sudden resignation in June, John investigates what's going on at the top of the charity and meets former senior insiders who have concerns about the charity's governing council.

#18 - Tax Havens of the Rich and Powerful Exposed

Season 2016 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/4/2016

The rich and powerful have hidden billions of dollars in tax havens. They thought their financial secrets were safe, but now a huge leak of documents has revealed a world of secrecy, lies and crimes. Reporter Richard Bilton exposes tax avoiders, criminals and world leaders who have been hiding their money and their secrets offshore.

#19 - The Marketing of Margaret

Season 1983 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/13/1983

Michael Cockerell reports for Panorama on the way Margaret Thatcher's image was created.

#20 - South Armagh: Bandit Country

Season 1976 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/21/1976

#21 - If The Bomb Drops

Season 1980 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/1980

This episode of Panorama, featuring a fresh-faced Jeremy Paxman, takes a look at the UK Government's preparations for the public in the event of a possible outbreak of Nuclear War.

#22 - Cops, Criminals, Corruption: The Inside Story

Season 2016 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/29/2016

Organised crime is the single biggest threat to the integrity of the police. With exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage, Panorama has the inside story of how an organised crime syndicate arranged a hit on three police officers. Also speaking publicly for the first time are the law enforcement officials who tapped the phones of drug dealers, only to find themselves hearing corrupt police on the line. The programme reveals how Scotland Yard woke up to the extent of corruption and the extraordinary lengths that the criminals would go to in order to undermine the police's ability to catch them.

#23 - The Zika Baby Crisis

Season 2016 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/7/2016

Panorama travels to Brazil to investigate the mystery of the Zika virus. The city of Recife is at the centre of an epidemic of cases of microcephaly - babies born with abnormally small heads who suffer from brain and limb deformities. Reporter Jane Corbin meets the families living with this tragedy and hears from doctors and scientists working to solve the riddle of the Zika virus and trying to eradicate the mosquito which carries it.

#24 - Shaken Babies: What's the Truth?

Season 2016 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/14/2016

The episode will explore the truth behind shaken babies. Parents will face jail or lose their children, if courts find them guilty of harming their children by shaking them. One doctor who regularly appears as an expert witness for the defence is now on trial accused by the General Medical Council of giving unreliable evidence in shaken baby cases. Alison Holt has access to the neuropathologist at the centre of a fight about the diagnosis of shaking. She will meet families where it has been proven they've shaken their children and where convicted parents continue to protest their innocence.

#25 - Inside Europe's Terror Attacks

Season 2016 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/23/2016

Examining how the so-called Islamic State's terror network has been operating secretly in Europe, and Western intelligence agencies' battle to stop it, from highly organised cells, like the one that killed 130 people in Paris, to lone attackers within communities.