1981-10-01 5.5/10
Overview
40 Minutes was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1994. The documentaries could be on any possible subject, the only connection being that they last forty minutes. Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version, Forty Minutes On.
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Seasons List
Season 1
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1. Rough Justice
2. Sister Genevieve
3. Hijack
4. Give Us the Vote
5. Lol: A Bona Queen of Fabularity
6. Marathon Man
7. Rocky Circus
8. Gorilla G Gorilla
9. The Harrisons Don't Go to School
10. Alison
11. Sex, Drugs and the Vicar
12. Children's Parties
13. The Great Cover-up
14. Brighton or Bust
15. The Last Resort
16. The George Formby Story
17. Burgled
18. Bomber and Brendan
19. Mutiny
20. Saved in the Nick of Time
21. Birth Reborn
22. Hunt Saboteurs
23. Heart Transplant
24. Heart Transplant: 2 - A Fight for Life
25. Heart Transplant: 3
26. Heart Transplant: 4 - Bruce Anderson, New Heart
27. Heart Transplant: 5 - Recovery
28. Heart Transplant: 6 - A Matter of Life and Death
29. Heart Transplant: 7
Season 2
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1. Roedean
2. Skinheads
3. Rabbits Don't Cry
4. An Emotional Matter
5. Lost in a Crowd
6. The Cruelty Man
7. Miners
8. Mr. Moonlight
9. The Lads' Night Out
10. How Do I Look?
11. Mister Perks
12. Package Tour
13. Something to Do with Video
14. The Rovers
15. Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother
16. Freshers
17. English Lesson
18. Female Circumcision
19. A Minor Incident at the Berlaymont
20. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 1
21. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 2
22. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 3
23. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 4
24. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 5
25. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 6
Season 3
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1. Mistress
2. Bodyline
3. Something for the Ladies
4. House of Love
5. Innocent Until Proved Guilty
6. Jail Within a Jail
7. Who's a Pretty Girl, Then?
8. Pranks
9. 1984 Voices in a City
10. Health Farm
11. Swiss Finishing School
12. Divorce: Unreasonable Behaviour
13. Divorce: The Law... and After
14. The Mating Season
15. Skiffle
16. Pigeons: Queer Facts
17. Educating Michael
18. Delmelza's Baby
19. A Problem with Sex
20. The School on the Hill
21. Animal Antiques
22. Travelling Hopefully
23. Sun City
24. Bertie and the Bomb
25. Oh Alien
26. Boycott
Season 4
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1. Gigolo
2. The Happy Medium
3. The Grendon Experiment
4. Love in Exile
5. On the Throne
6. Rent Boys
7. Asylum
8. The Loved Ones
9. The Promised Land
10. Talking Proper
11. Sweet F.A.
12. The End of the Pier Show
13. The Outcasts
14. Love Story
15. Free!
16. Whose House Is It Anyway?
17. The Eternal Triangle: The Mistress
18. The Eternal Triangle: The Wife
19. The Eternal Triangle: The Husband
20. Union Street
21. Whatever Happened to Baby Paul?
22. Matters of Life and Death
23. Star Paws
24. Laughter in Gabrovo
25. Dear Mr President
Season 5
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1. In Between Days
2. 50 Years On
3. Schoolgirl Mum
4. Johnny Oddball
5. Forget-Me-Not
6. Searching for a Miracle
7. Page 3 Girls
8. Keep Taking the Rose Petals
9. Animal Crackers
10. Our Man in Shanghai
11. A House of Hope
12. The Gift of Life
13. Flight from Vatersay
14. Stop the Wedding!
15. Student Nurse
16. Emergency - Bloomsbury 3
17. How to Find a Lover
18. Cry for Home
19. The Fishing Party
20. The Real Life of a Hollywood Wife
21. A Case of Malicious Wounding
22. Come Home Julie
23. Nuts!
24. Countdown to Today
25. The Last Day
26. A Passage to Wisbech
Season 6
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1. Ten Days in Holloway
2. Dancing in the Rain
3. Rescue
4. Olga Goes to Hollywood
5. The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
6. Special: The Dump
7. Botham's Out
8. The Chosen Few
9. The Final Board
10. Dear Sister
11. Just for William
12. Short Stories
13. Home from the Hill
14. Struggle for Stonebridge
15. Stirring Stuff
16. Do You Still Love Me?
17. A Cabinet of Curiosities
18. Bad Blood
19. Fire!
20. The Quest for Sergeant Miller
21. House of Spirits
22. A New Girl
23. Fly Me
24. The Mighty Leek
25. Troublesome People
26. Street Girls
27. Bombay Hotel
Season 7
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1. Terror
2. Girls Apart
3. Love at First Sight
4. Poor Man's Eton
5. East Side Story
6. The Case of Sherlock Holmes
7. Party Time
8. Catch a Fallen Star
9. Convictions
10. If You Love Him, Let Him Go
11. Jackpot
12. Scarfe's Follies
13. Thames Wallah
14. Changing Places
15. Diary of a Frontliner
16. Annie Doesn't Work Here Any More
17. The Great North Road
18. I, Alison...
19. Children of the Open Road
20. Five Go to Florida
21. Who Will Love Billy?
22. Who Needs a Machine Gunner?
23. Women in Black
24. My African Farm
25. Separate Tables
26. Waiting
27. Mixed Blessings
Season 8
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1. Dolebusters
2. I Want to Live
3. The Gypsies Are Coming
4. Desirable Dwellings
5. A Policewoman's Lot
6. Making the Grade
7. Greenfinches
8. Jam Today
9. To Have and to Hold
10. The Day I Met the Queen
11. The Kingdom of Fun
12. Our Darren
13. Jealousy
14. Cairo Vets
15. I Like the Girls Who Do
16. Knickerbockers in Knightsbridge
17. Ghost Train
18. Raging Belles
19. By Steam to Sennar Junction
20. Wedding at Easington
21. Violent
22. Catwalk
23. Two Sides of a Street
24. Inside Broadmoor
25. Laid Off
26. London Lighthouse
27. Who'll Win Jeanette?
Season 9
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1. Danger Men
2. Me and My Bike
3. Crack Doctors
4. City Parish
5. Best Friends
6. The Heart of the Angel
7. Bullies
8. Out of the Ruins
9. All About Ambridge
10. Stage Struck
11. A Place for Tom
12. Darling, Let's Start Up an Airline
13. He's Playing Our Song
14. Hilary's in Hiding
15. S.A. Blues
16. Adventures in the Skin Trade
17. A Safe Sex for a Safe Seat
18. Green Police
19. The Burny Mob Go Wild
20. Many Happy Returns!
21. Tracey's Search
22. How Could She?
23. Mac to the U.S.S.R.
24. Killer Bimbos on Fleet Street
25. Karl's Kidney - For Sale
26. A View from a Bridge
Season 10
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1. The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior
2. Fit to Drop
3. It's Eileen
4. A Summer in the Country
5. Battleship Beach
6. Brief Encounters
7. Malika's Hotel
8. Chocolate!
9. Whatever Happened to Susi?
10. Clever Trevor
11. Around Midnight
12. Where There's Hope
13. The Prisoner
14. Welcome to Surbiton
15. A Cruel Ritual
16. Children of the Fire
17. The Big Game
18. Our Brilliant Careers
19. Battered Men
20. The Entertainers
21. Video Vultures
22. Beyond the Crystal Ball
23. Suburbs in the Sky
24. Fly Me to Dunoon
Season 11
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1. Alec the Pole
2. Short, Sharp and Shocking
3. Autogeddon
4. Anyone for Tennis?
5. Berlin Lights
6. Torn Apart
7. Windermere's Burning
8. Heads on Beds
9. Boobs in Toyland
10. When the Canaries Stop Singing
11. Wild Men
12. Charlotte and Abi
13. Cowboys in the South Pacific
14. She Married a Lifer
15. Miami Wild
16. Elvis in Jarrow
17. So Much to Lose
18. Farewell, Fab 208
19. Soldier's Diary
20. Get Out!
21. Not at Their Age
22. A Child for Hitler
23. Dear Mr. Pink
24. Weather
Season 12
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1. Sanctuary
2. I Won't... I Can't
3. Away the Lads
4. Mart and Mandy
5. Will They Ring Tonight?
6. A Change of Heart
7. The Lady Killers
8. Limehouse Doctor
9. The Agony of the Ecstasy - 100 Years of Sex Advice
10. Hostage
11. The Importance of Being Ernie
12. Ladies in Lines
13. Three Big Men
14. Rape
15. Prisoner HC3970
Season 13
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1. Shattered Dreams
2. War Artist
3. Girl Friends
4. Police Surgeon
5. Moscow Gold
6. Latin Nights
7. The Making of Them
8. Caraline's Story
9. Heads and Tales
10. Behind the Mask
11. Squeegies
12. Spent Forces
13. Why Blame the Mother?
14. Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis
15. Manila - The Real Thing
16. A Case of Corporate Murder
17. After the Bomb
18. Wonderful Land
19. Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur
20. Living in a Boom Time
21. Times Remembered
Season 14
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