Whicker's World

The First Million Miles!

1982 · 5 episodes

Episodes

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   1. The First Million Miles! A Fierce Crowd Which Always Wants More....

   8 Sept 1982

   Returning to the BBC with six programmes looking back at the first decade of Whicker's World, Alan Whicker recalls fox hunting with the Quorn, discussing civil rights with Cassius Clay, and an interview with bullfighter El Cordobés.

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   2. The First Million Miles! That Great Cushion of Wealth Is Tough to Walk Away From...

   15 Sept 1982

   Alan Whicker continues looking back at the first ten years of Whicker's World. In this edition he recalls his interviews with billionaire J. Paul Getty, Baroness Fiona Thyssen (now coping with a divorce), and a docker who won the pools.

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   3. The First Million Miles! Pull Up Your Power - Then Focus Your Spirit Friend ...

   22 Sept 1982

   Looking back at the first decade of Whicker's World at the BBC, Whicker recalls meeting a woman who claims she married the spirit of Bernard Shaw, as well as the Caribbean cult of the Pocomaniacs and the witchcraft of Guatemalan Indians.

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   4. The First Million Miles! If You Look Absolutely Marvellous, Who Needs a Gorgeous Character?

   29 Sept 1982

   Alan Whicker continues looking back at the first decade of Whicker's World at the BBC. In this all-female edition, he recalls interviewing Geisha girls, glamour girls, and beauty queens, and the Duchess of Alba who had 68 titles.

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   5. The First Million Miles! Skin Like Black Velvet and Breasts That'll Poke Your Eye Out....

   13 Oct 1982

   Looking back at the first decade of Whicker's World at the BBC, Alan Whicker recalls going on a drugs raid with axe-wielding Singapore police, and visiting the birthplace of the atom bomb at Los Alamos.