Whicker's World

California

1980 · 6 episodes

Episodes

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   1. California: I Wear a Uniform and Pack a Gun - But I'm Still a Woman...

   16 Apr 1980

   Alan Whicker looks at the rise in female police officers in the U.S. and talks to several women who joined the force and the prejudice they face from the public and their own male colleagues.

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   2. California: If a Cop Wiggled Around with Pink Hair and a Limp Wrist, It Would Discredit the Department...

   16 Apr 1980

   Alan Whicker looks at the recruitment drive in the San Francisco Police Department aimed at getting more officers from the Lesbian and Gay Community.

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   3. California: I Feel Trapped in Paradise Here...

   23 Apr 1980

   lan Whicker visits Los Angeles and meets Britt Ekland and Sherry Lansing, goes to a birthday party for dogs and talks to starstruck teenagers and their pushy mothers anxious to see their offspring make it in show-business.

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   4. California: He'll Never Have to Divorce Me... He Can Always Change Me

   30 Apr 1980

   Alan Whicker revisits plastic surgeon Dr. Kurt Wagner and his wife Kathy, whom he first met in 1973.

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   5. California: Nothing Is Utopia, This Comes Pretty Close

   7 May 1980

   Alan Whicker meets some of the 50,000 Britons who live in Los Angeles, including actors Patrick Macnee, Christopher Lee and Peter Sellers (in one of his last ever television interviews).

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   6. California: Shooting Somebody... It's Called Survival

   14 May 1980

   Alan Whicker examines the fear of violence that causes so many ordinary Americans to pack a gun, and goes to a school that teaches people how to shoot to kill.