Whicker’s World: The Best of Whicker DVD – Alan Whicker 

Collection of episodes from the British television documentary series which ran from 1958-1994. Presented by Alan Whicker, the journalist and broadcaster reports from all around the world. The episodes are: ‘Papa Doc – The Black Sheep’, ‘Whicker in Stroessner’s Paraguay – The Last Dictator’, ‘Harold Robbins – I’m the World’s Best Writer’, ‘I’d Like to Think I’m Nearer to God Than Frankenstein’, ‘I Haven’t Taken My Own Shoes Off for 45 Years’, ‘He’s Been Hunted All His Life – Now He’s Going to Rest in Peace’, ‘I Wear a Uniform and Pack a Gun, But I’m Still a Woman’, ‘If a Cop Walked Around With Pink Hair and a Limp Wrist, It Would Discredit the Department’, ‘The Aristocracy Business’, ‘Boat People’, ‘Devil’s Island’, ‘Pixie-Dust On Goody-Goody Land’, ‘Come in, Dr Freud, All Is Forgiven’, ‘You Stopped Being a Pigeon When You Got Your Throat Cut’, ‘You Used to Call Me ‘Boy’, Now You Got to Call Me ‘Mr Boy”, ‘The Ultimate Dream, the Last Chance to Do It Right’, ‘Nothing Is Utopia, This Comes Pretty Close’, ‘The Absolute Monarch’, ‘The Road from Rose Linda’s’, ‘Immortality Inc.’, ‘Prince Johannes Von Thurn Und Taxis’, ‘Husbands Shy Clear of Me, Boy..!’, ‘I Do My Duty When I Feel Like It’, ‘God Forgive Me for What I’ve Done – But It Was All Very Enjoyable’, ‘The Lord Is My Shepherd, and He Knows I’m Gay’, ‘The Most Beautiful Brainwashing There Ever Was…’, ‘A Gun Is a Funny Animal’, ‘Large Sums of Money Have a Very Fusty Smell’, ‘How Can I Lie About My Age When My Son Needs a Facelift..?’, ‘Even Though You’re a Maharajah, You’re a Human Being First’ and ‘He’ll Never Have to Divorce Me – He Can Always Change Me…’.

A cultural icon, consummate interviewer and guiding light behind some of the most popular documentaries ever made, Alan Whicker’s brand of charismatic, quietly incisive television journalism captivated audiences for six decades. Drawn from landmark series stretching from the late sixties to the early nineties, this set showcases the remarkable diversity of Whicker’s output from encounters with modern Maharajahs to the bathroom billionaires of Palm Beach; from Europe’s glittering aristocracy to the later twentieth century’s most notorious dictators. Encompassing subjects ranging from Gay Lib to plastic surgery, Christian cults to cryonics, this collection represents factual television at its most compelling. Editions included are: Papa Doc the Black Sheep Whicker in Stroessner’s Paraguay The Last Dictator Harold Robbins I’m the World’s Best Writer I’d Like to Think I’m Nearer to God than Frankenstein I Haven’t Taken My Own Shoes Off for 45 Years He’s Been Hunted All His Life – Now He’s Going to Rest in Peace I Wear a Uniform and Pack a Gun, But I’m Still a Woman If a Cop Walked Around With Pink Hair and a Limp Wrist, it Would Discredit the Department The Aristocracy Business Boat People Devil’s Island Pixie-Dust on Goody-Goody Land Vienna Come in, Dr Freud, all is Forgiven You Stopped Being a Pigeon When You Got Your Throat Cut Charleston, South Carolina You Used to Call Me Boy , Now You Got to Call Me Mr Boy Anchorage, Alaska the Ultimate Dream, the Last Chance to do it Right Nothing is Utopia, this Comes Pretty Close The Absolute Monarch The Road from Rose Linda’s Alan Whicker Meets the Cats’ Eyes Man The American Lifestyle Immortality Inc. Prince Johannes Von Thurn Und Taxis Husbands Shy Clear of Me, Boy..! Tribes Lost and Found I Do My Duty When I Feel Like It God Forgive Me for What I’ve Done but it Was All Very Enjoyable The Lord is My Shepherd, and He Knows I’m Gay The Most Beautiful Brainwashing There Ever Was… Houston: a Gun is a Funny Animal Large Sums of Money Have a Very Fusty Smell Palm Beach, Florida: How Can I Lie About My Age When My Son Needs a Facelift..? Even Though You’re a Maharajah, You’re a Human Being First He’ll Never Have to Divorce Me He Can Always Change Me…