Eye to Eye - Season 1

Tonight the Eye to Eye Documentary team has a look at life in this country as it strikes a newcomer to these shores.

Tonight 'Eye to Eye' focuses on crime in Birmingham. You will meet real characters from the underworld-men who have been operating outside the law. They will tell you how they work and how they are caught, and you will see how the police act in the endless war against crime.

Tonight Eye to Eye tells the story of the medical officers of the Port of London Health Authority who stand on guard as the first line of defence against infectious disease.
A ship from Asia is heading for the Channel; one of the passengers is sick; 'query smallpox' is the message sent by the ship's surgeon; in thirty-six hours they will be in London, capital of a country of fifty million people, only a quarter of whom are vaccinated.

The Plight of the Illegitimate is examined with the cooperation of some of those who can speak authoritatively on the effect on the individual of being born out of wedlock.
Every incident is based on an actual case history, but where it is necessary to preserve the anonymity of unmarried mothers and their children the faces seen are not those of the real people.

'Eye to Eye' looks at a provincial city from evening until dawn, and meets some of the people caught up in the restlessness and loneliness of the city night.

Tonight 'Eye to Eye' spans the Atlantic, and a musician who has lived in both cities interprets the scenes recorded by our cameras in streets 3,500 miles apart.

Being the lament of a barber on the island of Elba and the experiences of six customers having a shave in his shop.

'Eye to Eye' watches some of Britain's leading rock-climbers as they demonstrate their skill and daring among the mountains of England and Wales.

'Eye to Eye' looks at just some of the millions of people who take the Big Gamble every summer, and just one of the many seaside resorts where they take it.

In Spa Road, Bermondsey, immediately opposite a new block of council flats stands a group of buildings which its most affectionate supporters would hesitate to describe as attractive. It looks like a converted warehouse - which in point of fact is not so very far from the truth: it is a factory and a hostel run by the Salvation Army. Here, a stone's throw from Tower Bridge, and across the road from young families in their new flats, lives a community of men, a floating population that is never less than a hundred and is often four times as many.

The life so short, the craft... So Long to Learn

Chaucer's comment, written 600 years ago, provides the key to this week's Eye to Eye picture of present-day young people.
It tells the story of a boat-load of students, from the rival colleges of Battersea and Chelsea, on a summer outing on the Thames; dancing, talking, and thinking about the past and the future.

Tonight, Eye to Eye compares the two ways of life of the familiar Breton onion-sellers.

He is a man who lives half his life in France and half in Britain. In this film we follow the Breton onion-sellers, with their bicycles, berets and strings of onions, from their homes in Brittany to the doorsteps of houses throughout the British Isles.

An Impression of backstage life in the small world of a touring revue company: a world of land-ladies and late suppers, of Sunday trains and Monday band calls, of high hopes and low billings.

For thirty minutes life is seen through the eyes of Mum and Dad, Vi, Lil, Nell, and Eileen - four sisters with four husbands. They are the Gladden family, and they all live within a stone's throw of each other in the East End of London, with eight children and a budgerigar.

Six million people buy something or other on hire purchase every year. How does H.P. work? What are the snags? How does the shopkeeper check up on his customers, and what happens if they don't keep up the payments? This programme looks at the instalment world and has a look under the counter as well.

Two worlds clash on the remote shores of Caithness: An Atomic Research Station brings new people and a new way of life alongside the traditional world of fishermen and farmers.

To what extent do husbands and wives live in separate worlds, even though they are happily married? Romany Bain and Richard Findlater, a married couple themselves, examine this problem, Iightheartedly, by taking a look at the married lives of a journalist, a lorry driver, and a business man.