The WORST episodes of Panorama
Every episode of Panorama ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Panorama!
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#1 - Kids Lost in Care
Season 2013 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/24/2013
Panorama investigates the standard of residential care for vulnerable children. In homes where care is not up to scratch, some young people run away into risky situations.
#2 - Hillsborough - How They Buried the Truth
Season 2013 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/20/2013
A Panorama investigation reveals how police, politicians, lawyers and judges all played a part in burying the truth about Britain's worst football disaster. Never-before-broadcast footage of the FA Cup semi-final in which 96 Liverpool fans died reveals a catastrophic failure by the emergency services, how lives might have been saved and how subsequent inquiries were misled. And a former home secretary and former police chiefs are put on the spot about why a succession of official investigations left the truth hidden for a generation.
#3 - Cancer: Hope for Sale?
Season 2013 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/3/2013
A controversial American doctor claims he can cure cancer. Celebrities have helped raise hundreds of thousands of pounds to send British patients to his clinic. But Dr Burzynski's treatment has been dismissed by mainstream medicine and the US authorities have tried to close him down. So why has he been allowed to sell an unproven and experimental treatment for 30 years?
#4 - Cash for Questions Undercover
Season 2013 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/6/2013
Three years ago, David Cameron declared that lobbying was the 'next big scandal waiting to happen'. Now this Panorama special goes undercover to reveal lobbying practices which raise serious questions about standards in our political life. The programme's allegations have already contributed to a series of high-profile resignations and suspensions in Westminster.
#5 - Blacklist Britain
Season 2013 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/10/2013
For years some of the biggest names in British business subscribed to a secret blacklist containing thousands of names with the power to deny work and destroy livelihoods. From the Millennium Dome to the iconic Olympic Park, some construction firms paid for information on workers they feared could delay work and cost them money. Reporter Richard Bilton does the first television interview with the bookkeeper for the organisation which ran the list. And he discovers that even though the list has now been closed down, blacklisting still appears to be alive and well in Britain.
#6 - Serpell Report
Season 1983 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/24/1983
Vincent Hanna reports on future options for British Rail in light of the Serpell Report followed by a studio interview with transport secretary David Howell.
#7 - Beeching
Season 1965 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/1965
Richard Dimbleby discusses the future of public transport with Dr Richard Beeching in the wake of his second report into railway provision.
#8 - Traffic Fines - Highway Robbery?
Season 2013 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/12/2013
When a CCTV camera snaps your car and you get a ticket in the post, how annoyed do you get? More motorists face this frustration as councils are now fining drivers in ever-greater numbers after capturing them on CCTV. They claim they do it to keep the traffic flowing smoother. But private emails obtained by Panorama reveal a different story, with officials congratulating each other on the number of tickets issued: 'Another record month, guys. Well done,' says one. The programme visits the box junction where the council fines so many drivers - 29,000 last year alone - that it's known as the 'Money Box', and tries to find new ways to cut down the mountain of traffic tickets now issued every year.
#9 - Elderly Care: Condition Critical?
Season 2013 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/17/2013
Using secret filming and exclusive research into the mortality rates of care and nursing homes for the elderly in England, Panorama exposes the pain of poor care and neglect.
#10 - Jobs for the Boys?
Season 2013 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/13/2013
Former England and Arsenal footballer Sol Campbell investigates why the unemployment rate for young black British men is roughly double that of their white counterparts. He follows four under-25-year-olds in their search for that all-important first job, and asks: are employers to blame, or do young black men need to work harder at finding work?
#11 - The Truth about Pills and Pregnancy
Season 2013 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/1/2013
Current affairs. Many women have to take medicines while pregnant. But could they be risking the health of their unborn child? Reporter Shelley Jofre investigates.
#12 - The Trouble with Trump
Season 2013 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/8/2013
Reporter John Sweeney asks if the Scottish government knew enough about self-proclaimed billionaire Donald Trump before accepting his investment proposal.
#13 - Broken by Battle
Season 2013 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/15/2013
Panorama investigates the true personal cost of the war in Afghanistan on British troops, going beyond the limits of the Ministry of Defence's statistics on suicide.
#14 - Jungle Outlaws: The Chainsaw Trail
Season 2013 - Episode 24 - Aired 7/25/2013
Panorama investigates illegal logging in the rainforest and the timber trail from Africa to West Europe. Raphael Rowe spent six months tracking logs from Congo's jungle.
#15 - Tainted Love: Secrets of the Dating Game
Season 2013 - Episode 25 - Aired 7/29/2013
Panorama exposes the tricks of the UK's online dating industry, worth millions of pounds a year. Reporter Fiona Walker investigates how some unscrupulous dating websites are preying on those looking for love and searching for their perfect partner.
#16 - The Brothers Who Bombed Boston
Season 2013 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/5/2013
Panorama explores how the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers - brothers raised and educated in the US - became radicalised, and asks if America's war on terror has come home.
#17 - Locked Up For Being Ill?
Season 2013 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/9/2013
Current affairs. With police estimating that dealing with mental health patients takes up 25 percent of their time, Paul Kenyon discovers a world of self-harm and suicide attempts.
#18 - Justice Under Fire
Season 1984 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/12/1984
Profile of recent shoot to kill incidents and supergrass trials. Panorma asks, can terror be defeated by ordinary law of the land and what rules should govern the Sectarian Forces.
#19 - Limehouse Blues
Season 1984 - Episode 25 - Aired 9/10/1984
#20 - Prisoners Of Zion
Season 1984 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/24/1984
#21 - Live from Labour Party Conference
Season 1984 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/1/1984
#22 - Thatcher Revolution: What Next?
Season 1984 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/8/1984
#23 - The Battle For Power
Season 1984 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/15/1984
#24 - Rethinking The Unthinkable
Season 1984 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/22/1984