Whicker's World - Season 16

First aired: 2/16/1990 8 episodes
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Episodes

1. Hong Kong: When You Lose Power You Don't Go and Grow Raspberries... You Get Hanged

Aired: 2/16/1990

Thirty years after his first visit there, Alan Whicker returns to Hong Kong and looks at its society and its political and economic structure.

2. Hong Kong: My Great Grandfather Had Six Wives...

Aired: 2/23/1990

Alan Whicker tours the waterfront on a craft owned by a Chinese man who reads The Times and smokes cigars, meets a businessman who serves caviar with a pearl shovel, and a woman who is a telecommunications tycoon who visits soothsayers.

3. Hong Kong: Face Had to Be Provided for Both Sides...

Aired: 3/2/1990

Alan Whicker looks at the treatment of the widows of the men killed when defending the colony in 1941, to a police chief about how illegal immigrants are treated on both sides of the border, and the immensely wealthy Kadoorie family.

4. Hong Kong: Jesus Makes You Fat!

Aired: 3/9/1990

Alan Whicker looks at drugs, crime and capital punishment in Hong Kong, and meets Christian missionary Jackie Pullinger who rescues drug addicts in the Walled City.

5. Hong Kong: The Psychological Protection of Mr Lo and His Magic Compass

Aired: 3/16/1990

Alan Whicker looks into the superstitions and belief in fortune tellers of many Hong Kong citizens.

6. Hong Kong: I Didn't Chop Their Important Organs

Aired: 3/23/1990

Alan Whicker examines Hong Kong's organised crime syndicate, The Triads, and meets a lawyer who used to prosecute them, a priest who befriended them, and a Traid "enforcer" who is now on the run from them.

7. Hong Kong: I Don't Think You'll Find Many Doormats Here

Aired: 3/30/1990

Alan Whicker talks to some of the working, professional women of Hong Kong, both Chinese and European, about their work, roles and the attitudes towards them.

8. Hong Kong: A Fundamental Need for Insecurity

Aired: 4/6/1990

Alan Whicker talks to some of the many expatriates who live and work in Hong Kong.