Video Diaries - Season 6

First aired: 6/20/1996 8 episodes

Episodes

1. Suitable Boy

Aired: 6/20/1996

Omerjit Brar, a 19-year-old aspiring model, longs for excitement in her life. In spite of being discouraged by a top agency, she enters the Miss Asia UK competition to help her career. Romantically, however, her life has turned upside down: the suitable boy her parents have arranged for her to marry has a rival for her affections - a new boy called Ranjit.

2. Chester PD Blue

Aired: 6/27/1996

As part of Chester police's new pro-active squad, Detective Constable Tim Roberts fights on the frontline in the escalating war against drugs. After setting up surveillance operations against dealers suspected of operating from a nightclub, he has to watch and wait with his own promotion prospects hanging on an informer's tip.

3. Steve, Su and Alice Too

Aired: 7/4/1996

Steve and Su Pearce have tried almost everything to have a family of their own. When they decide to adopt a baby from China, they embark on a process that is fraught with difficulties and tensions. Finally, a letter brings unexpected changes, forcing them to confront impossible dilemmas.

4. Year Zero

Aired: 7/11/1996

Coinciding with South African president Nelson Mandela's first state visit to Britain, this film charts the first year of democracy for three people from Kwazulu-Natal who, having completed a psychological counselling course in London, were determined to help heal the wounds suffered under apartheid. Thuli Myeni's main work is Aids education and counselling; half the people tested at the local hospital for HIV get a positive result. Meshack Madonsela, an inspector for black schools, wants to use his new skills to help teachers under pressure. And Bheki Ntombela returns to his job as a psychiatric nurse - under the same management that were in place before the election.

5. Child Slave Rescue

Aired: 10/19/1996

The first in this four-part documentary series travels to India to tell the story of Kailash Satyarthi, whose organisation attempts to rescue children from the country's child slave trade.

6. Oils and Oilskins

Aired: 10/26/1996

Lifeboat coxswain Eric Ward comes from St Ives, Cornwall, a town known both for its fishing industry and its vibrant artistic community. Ten years ago, Eric applied brush to canvas and tapped into a hitherto hidden talent for life-painting.

7. Ghostbuster - the Real Thing

Aired: 11/2/1996

Maurice Grosse , aged 76, is a psychic investigator. In 1977 he led the team that hunted the Enfield poltergeist, a widely publicised event which he says inspired the hit Hollywood movies Ghostbusters and Poltergeist. Investigating claims by people who believe they have witnessed manifestations of the supernatural, Maurice Grosse 's video diary includes footage of an all-night vigil at Charlton House, a building in London believed to be haunted.

8. Show Boys - the Naked Truth

Aired: 11/10/1996

Zeus is 23-year-old Justin Richards's alter-ego, a body-beautiful male stripper who parades in front of adoring men and women at gay clubs and hen parties. This uninhibited account looks at the lengths to which Richards will go in the quest for fame and fortune, as well as financial and romantic complications he is facing in his hectic personal life.