This Is David Lander

Series 1 Episode 1
First Broadcast: Mon 31 October 1988

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.

    1. Series 1 Episode 1 Not A Pretty Site

      Lander visits the Oakwood Close Housing Estate, a new development beset with such niggling problems as flying garage…

    2. Series 1 Episode 2 The Nicholson Story: Red Faces at M15

      On the eve of the publication of the memoirs of double-agent Russell Nicholson, Lander goes to visit him to find out…

    3. Series 1 Episode 3 A Growing Crisis

      Investigative journalist David Lander talks to a farm worker about the decline of British farming and discovers what…

    4. Series 1 Episode 4 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…

    5. Series 1 Episode 5 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…

    6. Series 1 Episode 6 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…

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