This is David Lander - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Not a Pretty Site
Lander visits the Oakwood Close Housing Estate, a new development beset with such niggling problems as flying garage doors, exploding air cupboards and live guttering.
The Nicholson Story: Red Faces at MI5
On the eve of the publication of the memoirs of double-agent Russell Nicholson, Lander goes to visit him to find out why he betrayed his country and why he told his wife his name was Cyril.
A Growing Crisis
Investigative journalist David Lander talks to a farm worker about the decline of British farming and discovers what part Roy Orbison played in it all.
A Question of Trial and Error
Eighteen-year-old Kevin Watts was sentenced to five year's imprisonment for masterminding the art theft of the century. He has always protested his innocence and maintains that at the time of the robbery he was doing his homework. David Lander investigates.
The Rocketing Cost of Defence
The Sea Demon is a highly sophisticated air defence missle with one important drawback - it doesn't work. David Lander tries to find out why Britain's military spokesmen are so keen to defend a weapon that is obviously not defending us.
Reduced to Tears
Surgeon Stephen Ribley has, apparently, a 'Rolls Royce of a mind'. He certainly has a very nice Jaguar of a motor car that he has paid for out of the pockets of his patients, and that is why Lander investigates him.
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