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First Tuesday Season 3

Ended 1983–1993

Season 3 Episodes

12 episodes
1
Insult to Injury/Lebanon: A Family at War
Apr 2, 1985
Two stories of racial tension. The first, a highly personal one for Martin Short as he reports on the dangers faced by his wife's family in war-torn Lebanon. The second closer to home in London, where the National Front target Bengalis.
2
Yanks Meet Reds
May 7, 1985
3
Goals Not Dole/The End of the Line?
Jun 4, 1985
Goals Not Dole - Documentary which explores the experience of unemployment through the views of members of a South Yorkshire village football team and their families. The End of the Line - Documentary on the near-doomed Settle to Carlisle railway line.
4
Our First Year/Visiting Day
Jul 2, 1985
Two documentaries about women's pilgrimages: the German wartime ones who came to Southport to avoid Nazis, and the present day ones who prepare and undertake prison visits to their husbands from Glasgow to Peterhead Prison.
5
Made in Huddersfield/A Death in the Family
Aug 6, 1985
6
Invitation to Disaster/Comrades at Arms
Sep 3, 1985
7
An Officer and a Lady
Oct 1, 1985
8
'Trevor, It's the Bailiffs'/Akong and the Big Shrine Room
Nov 5, 1985
"Trevor, It's the Bailiffs" - Documentary which looks at the work of Jim Ellis and Terry Allen who are bailiffs in Nottingham repossessing furniture. Akong and the Big Shrine Room - Documentary about Akong Rimpoche who fled his native Tibet after the Chinese invasion and is now abbot of the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Dumfrieshire.
9
Inside Britain's Bomb
Dec 3, 1985
10
In the Line of Duty/The Valley
Jan 7, 1986
11
Sugar Ditch Alley
Feb 4, 1986
12
Len Harding: Born a Number/Kent Coal: Staying on Top
Mar 4, 1986
Len Harding: Born a Number - Documentary which follows up on the story of Rampton patient Len Harding, and looks at his life since his release from the secure hospital at Rampton. Kent Coal: Staying on Top - Documentary in which Kent miners and their families discuss their industry in the aftermath of the year-long coal strike of 1984-1985.