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The Best Episodes of Dispatches Season 3

Every episode of Dispatches Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dispatches Season 3!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Dispatches Season 3 Episode 1 - Return to Year Zero?
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    Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 2 - Gorbachev's Asylums
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    Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".

    Director:David Cohen
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 3 - Cooking the Books
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    Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 4 - The Spy Who Broke the Code
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    Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.

    Director:William Cran
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 5 - Buckets of Money
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    Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 6 - The Copper Seven Story
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    Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 7 - Afghan
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    S3:E7

    A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 8 - The Toxic Trail
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    Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 9 - The Case of 'F'
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    S3:E9

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 10 - The Return of the Death Squads
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    S3:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 11 - Burma - Dying for Democracy
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    S3:E11

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 12 - Voices From Long Larten
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    S3:E12

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 13 - Young, Homeless and Broke
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    S3:E13

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    Director:Tony Coldwell
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 14 - Chico
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    S3:E14

    A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

    Director:Adrian Cowell
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 15 - Carry on Flying
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    S3:E15

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    Director:Cherry Farrow
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 16 - The Most Neglected Crime
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    S3:E16

    Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.

    Director:Jenny Barraclough
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 17 - Dispatches (26/04/1989)
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    S3:E17

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 18 - A Suitable Case for Treatment
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    S3:E18

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 19 - The Sins of the Fathers
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    S3:E19

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 20 - Not What the Doctor Ordered
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    S3:E20

    Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health

    Director:John Hay
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 21 - Warlord of Kayan
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    S3:E21

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    Director:Jeff B. Harmon
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 22 - The Ultimate Blasphemy
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    S3:E22

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    Director:Barney Platts-Mills
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 23 - Fit as a Fiddle
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    S3:E23

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 24 - Empire of the Sun
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    S3:E24

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Dispatches Season 3 Episode 25 - Year of the Locust
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    S3:E25

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    Director:Caroline Mylon
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Return to Year Zero?" is the best rated episode of "Dispatches" season 3. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/4/1989. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Gorbachev's Asylums".