As of July 2026, Dispatches Season 12 aired in 1998 with 28 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Dispatches Season 12

1998 28 Episodes Documentary · News ⭐ 7/10

Dispatches Season 12 has built a real following among viewers who want documentaries that actually inform. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. The storytelling serves the subject rather than the other way around. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Dispatches Season 12 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Dispatches Season 12 resists the urge to oversimplify a subject that deserves better. Season 12 of Dispatches includes 28 episodes. It aired from January 1998 to December 1998. Episodes include "The Force is Not with You", "The Contamination Trail", "Too Much Too Young". It was aired in 1998. The restraint in Dispatches Season 12 is what makes it trustworthy — it does not need to editorialise to make its point. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

For viewers who want their entertainment to leave them with something, Dispatches Season 12 delivers on both counts. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Rigorous in a way documentary work does not always commit to. Not background viewing — it rewards your full attention.

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🎬 Dispatches Season 12 — Episode Guide

E1
The Force is Not with You
1998-01-15
E2
The Contamination Trail
1998-01-22
E3
Too Much Too Young
1998-01-29
E4
Something in the Air
1998-02-05
E5
Saddam's Secret Time Bomb
1998-02-23
E6
Judgement for Louise
1998-03-05
Journalist David Jessel and producer Steve Haywood from the acclaimed Trial and Error (1992) come to Dispatches to examine doubts about the safety of the conviction of nanny Louise Woodward for the death of a baby in her care.
E7
Trust Me I'm a Doctor
1998-03-12
E8
Inspecting the Inspectors
1998-03-19
E9
Golf Lima Foxtrot
1998-03-26
GLF is police jargon for "Go Like F***". But does such light-hearted jocularity betray a lack of serious regard for the potential dangers to the public of cops' ability to break the rules of the road when performing high-speed pursuits?
E10
Granny's Having a Baby
1998-04-02
E11
The war Business
1998-04-09
Journalists uncover the bloody truth of the world's most successful private army, Executive Outcomes. Sent wherever mineral resources like diamonds or oil promise wealth, these mercenaries, trained as soldiers in apartheid-era South Africa and equipped with state-of-the-art weapons of war, sell thei...
E12
Men Behaving Badly: Part 1
1998-04-16
E13
Men Behaving Badly: Part 2
1998-04-23
E14
Apartheid's Children
1998-04-30
E15
Secrets of the Gaul - Update
1998-05-21
E16
Supertouts
1998-05-28
E17
The Accident
1998-06-04
Documentary investigating the death of Diana Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed.
E18
Death in Room 602
1998-06-07
E20
Sidney Cooke
1998-10-29
E21
Sidney Cooke Update
1998-10-30

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