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- A Guide to Armageddon (aka Q.E.D), is a 30 minute documentary about a nuclear missile detonating in London, and the effects it would have on things like buildings, cars and people. Directed by Mick Jackson, and narrated by Ludovic Kennedy.
- A young man is admitted into hospital after a relatively minor road traffic accident and should have recovered from his injuries in two days. However, due to the complete medical mis-management of the case by the hospital, his condition deteriorates rapidly and two weeks later he is dead. His father wants to know why he died and struggles completely in vain to discover the truth. The public inquest into the death is a white wash and the father is left angry and frustrated still with many unanswered questions. Eventually he is forced to educate himself in medical matters in order to take on the medical establishment and pursue the matter through the courts.
- Documentary which follows the life of Simon Weston, a former soldier in the Welsh Guards who sustained 46% burns when the RFA Sir Galahad was bombed by the Argentines during the Falklands War, showing how he had to learn to cope with disfiguring facial injuries and psychological scars.
- Influential 1989 documentary which explores the struggles of a Scottish teenager to live with Tourettes syndrome.
- Investigates the cure-all wonder drug of a Swiss bio-chemist who works in the Arizona desert.
- Following the work of a unique nerve transplant surgeon, who brings back movement to the limbs of previously paralyzed patients.
- Following the travels of a British inventor around Ghana with a pair of glasses that he was convinced could save the sight of millions.
- The show follows the trend of current psychic metal benders. These include Uri Geller, Stephen North and the starts of the Project Alpha hoax, Michael Edwards and Steve Shaw.
- Documentary shot at night which examines the nocturnal behaviour of lion in Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana.
- Do lie detector's really work? Yes, quite well, most of the time - but you you can cheat, and beat it.
- In a hyperbaric chamber at Comex in Marseille: an experiment to see how ultra-deep divers function at depths where 'hydrox' - an atmosphere of hydrogen and oxygen is substituted for the nitrogen/oxygen mix that can no longer be used.
- Documentary about attempts in London to control the population of wild cats.
- Falkland veteran Simon Weston returns home after spending months in hospital after receiving 46% burns when the HMS Sir Galahad was bombed during the Falklands War in 1982. This QED documentary follows Simon during his rehabilitation back in his home town of Nelson South Wales and his struggle to come to terms with his disfigurement and returning to a normal life with his family and friends.
- 1982–1999TV Episode
- In a dramatic excursion for the science series, Holmes and Watson investigate a possible missing link in the evolution of man.
- An in depth view of how the Imax 'rolling loop' system was developed and the inherent problems leading up to its development, that would allow large format 70mm film stock to travel transversely through a projector.
- Interviews with famous brain surgeon, Robert White, filmed in Cleveland, Ohio.
- A programme from the BBC's factual series Q.E.D. which looked at the background to the famous Shroud of Turin. The programme interviewed doctors and scientists who both supported and were opposed to claims that the Shroud was the burial cloth of Christ. The programme followed up an earlier 1982 programme by examining the results of Carbon 14 testing of the Shroud and other tests that had been made on it to verify that it was a medieval forgery. It was narrated by Professor Anthony Clare.
- Sports physiologist John Syers aim is to help QPR the players to identify their strengths and weaknesses.
- En-route to the airport, a time-pressured business executive listens to a Nick Ross-hosted radio discussion show, asking why we're not living in the age of leisure that we were promised in the 1960s.
- Is it the man or the machine that wins a Grand Prix?
- BBC TV "QED" documentary about Monty Roberts, the original 'horse whisperer', filmed in Santa Barbara, California and The Royal Stables, Windsor, UK during 1995.