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Investigative Reports Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
33 Episodes 1993 - 1994
Episode 1
Bad Cops: Part 1
Fri, Sep 10, 1993
Investigative Reports examines police corruption in Philadelphia, Boston and Sea Girt, N.J.
Episode 2
Bad Cops: Part 2
Fri, Sep 17, 1993
Investigative Reports examines internal affairs where cops investigate other cops.
Episode 3
Trophy Kill: America's Poacher Wars
Fri, Sep 24, 1993
Investigative reports looks at efforts by wildlife agents to protect animals from poachers and trophy hunters in national parks.
Episode 4
Eye of the Storm
Fri, Oct 1, 1993
Investigative Reports examines the dangers faced by journalists covering stories in war zones like the Persian Gulf, Somalia and the former Yugoslavia.
Episode 5
Mafia Boss
Fri, Oct 8, 1993
Investigative Reports examines the life of mob moss Salvatore Riina of Sicily who was caught after twenty-three years as a fugitive.
Episode 6
The Beirut Bombing
Fri, Oct 22, 1993
Investigative Reports looks back to October 23, 1983 and the attack on a U.S. Marine base in Beirut where 241 U.S. soldiers were killed.
Episode 7
Stalkers: Assassins Among Us
Fri, Oct 29, 1993
Investigative Reports examines several stalker cases including the 1989 murder of Rebecca Schaeffer by Robert Bardo.
Episode 8
Seven Minutes That Stunned the Navy
Fri, Nov 26, 1993
Investigative Reports examines the events leading up to the July 3, 1988 attack on an Iranian jetliner by the USS Vincennes which resulted in the deaths of all 290 passengers.
Episode 9
Out of the Gulf, Into the New Navy
Fri, Dec 3, 1993
Investigative Reports looks at several incidents involving the Navy including the 1987 attack on the frigate Stark during the Iran-Iraq War and the accidental firing on a Turkish destroyer in 1992 by the carrier Saratoga.
Episode 10
Dying for Sex
Fri, Dec 10, 1993
Investigative Reports goes to Thailand to report how prostitution has exacerbated the AIDS crisis.
Episode 11
New York Law
Fri, Dec 17, 1993
Investigative Reports looks at New York City's criminal-justice system and examines the plea-bargaining process where sometimes innocent people plead guilty.
Episode 12
Trial by Television
Fri, Jan 7, 1994
Investigative Reports examines how media coverage sometimes effects the justice system looking at the cases of vigilante Bernhard Goetz and the 1986 Preppy Murder.
Episode 13
Anatomy of a War: Part 1
Fri, Jan 14, 1994
Investigative Reports examines the events leading up to the war in the Persian Gulf.
Episode 14
Anatomy of a War: Part 2
Fri, Jan 14, 1994
Investigative Reports examines the war in the Persian Gulf focusing on the ground invasion on Iraqi and the effect on Iraqi citizens.
Episode 15
Hostage
Fri, Jan 21, 1994
Investigative Reports profiles Terry Waite who spent five years in Beirut as a hostage.
Episode 16
Pirates & Treasure: The Gulf of Thailand Incident
Fri, Feb 4, 1994
Investigative Reports follows an effort to recover sunken treasure in the Gulf of Thailand including the salvage vessels seizure by the Thai Navy.
Episode 17
The Hunt for the Red Ripper
Fri, Feb 25, 1994
Investigative Reports examines the 12-year killing spree of Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.
Episode 18
Let Her Die
Fri, Mar 4, 1994
Investigative Reports examines female infanticide in India where expensive dowries and a desire for male children are driving some parents to kill.
Episode 19
Space Warriors
Fri, Mar 11, 1994
Investigative Reports looks at what the U.S. military is doing in space.
Episode 20
Prime Time Violence
Fri, Mar 18, 1994
Investigative Reports consider whether there is a link between violence on television and violence in the real world.
Episode 21
The Real Story
Fri, Apr 1, 1994
Investigative Reports examines the real story behind the film 'In the Name of the Father (1993)' interviewing several people involved in the original IRA terrorism trial.
Episode 22
M.I.A.: The Long Journey Home
Fri, Apr 15, 1994
Investigative Reports goes to Vietnam to follow the search for missing U.S. servicemen by American and Vietnamese investigators.
Episode 23
Jack Anderson: JFK, the Mob and Me
Fri, Apr 22, 199447 mins
Investigative Reports follows columnist Jack Anderson who argues that organized-crime figures may have been behind the assassination of President Kennedy.
Episode 24
Suicide Killers
Fri, Apr 29, 1994
Investigative Reports examines the Tamil Tigers who are fighting for independence from the government of Sri Lanka.
Episode 25
Thalidomide: The Drug That Came Back
Fri, May 13, 1994
Investigative Reports looks at the increasing use of thalidomide in the world despite its history of association with birth defects.
Episode 26
Nuclear Airplane
Fri, May 27, 1994
Investigative Reports examines the unsuccessful attempt to develop a nuclear-powered U.S. bomber.
Episode 27
Naked Washington
Fri, Jun 3, 1994
Investigative Reports examines how media coverage of the President has intensified and become more personal since the Kennedy Administration.
Episode 28
Women in Prison
Fri, Jun 10, 1994
Investigative Reports examines education and child custody issues of women in prison.
Episode 29
HUD: America's Slumlord
Fri, Jun 24, 1994
Investigative Reports examines the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and argues that its public housing efforts have been radically unsuccessful.
Episode 30
Can We Still Trust NASA?
Fri, Jul 15, 1994
Investigative Reports examines how the space agency transformed from a miracle-maker in the 1960s to a troubled-organization in the 1980s.
Episode 31
Chappaquiddick
Fri, Jul 22, 1994
Investigative Reports examines Senator Edward Kennedy's role in the 1969 car accident that resulted in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
Episode 32
Adoption Vigilantes
Fri, Aug 5, 1994
Investigative Reports looks at the adoption-rights movement and interviews birth mothers who are searching for their children.
Episode 33
The Killer and the Candidate
Fri, Aug 12, 1994
Investigative Reports examines the case of a mentally handicapped Arkansas death-row inmate who was executed when Bill Clinton was running for President.