Hot topics in television include the new Social Democratic Party, video piracy and electricity surges during TV ad breaks.

LWT's monthly programme Look Here, broadcast within the London region of the ITV network, reported on issues affecting the television industry. Hosted by former MP John Pardoe, this edition is particularly political, covering questions about the newly formed Social Democratic Party (SDP) and its right to airtime. Interviews with MPs, broadcasters, regulators and media academics relay the rules on political balance as they stood in 1981. Of the interviewees, the Chair of the Labour Party - outspoken Frank Allaun - is the saltiest, refuting the upstart SDP's right to political broadcasts. Notably, most of the SDP's MPs had defected from Labour.

The following segment was a growing issue in the 1980s: video piracy. A home video exhibition (yes, a trade show of video cassette recorders) provides the backdrop for the report on the growth in bootleg off-air recordings and the arguments for tighter laws to protect copyright.A cheery final segment looks at a curious phenomenon from mass viewership of terrestrial TV in Britain: the teatime national grid surge. The ad break just after the chariot race in Ben Hur reportedly caused an uptick in energy equivalent to 900,000 kettles brewing at once!

Programme that looks at television. This edition examines the coverage of the
beginings of the new political party the SDP.