Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

Tonight: Gale is Dead
Gale was beautiful, intelligent, and - according to everyone who knew her - had much to offer; everything to live for. Recently, aged 19 and a drug addict, she was found dead-in the filthy basement of a house in Chelsea.
Man Alive first met her ten months ago when making a programme about people who had been brought up in children's homes. What was apparent even then was her total loss of hope, her disbelief in any future. Now she is dead, the people who were in her life - her mother, her friends, and those who cared for her in and out of various institutions-examine in this Man Alive the short and hopeless life of a girl whom many tried to help but who in the end felt she belonged to no one. They ask: need she have died?
(Gale is dead: see page 9)