Episodes List
Ep.1 Episode 1
Air Date: 1974-01-08
Ep.2 Episode 2
Air Date: 1974-02-19
Barry Norman reviews some of the new films which have opened in recent weeks, including The Way We Were, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Also, a look at late night cinema shows.
Ep.3 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell/From Beyond the Grave/The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Air Date: 1974-02-26
Ep.4 Episode 4
Air Date: 1974-03-05
Ep.5 Episode 5
Air Date: 1974-03-12
Ep.6 Episode 6
Air Date: 1974-03-19
Zardoz, written, produced and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery, is a vision of the world in 2293. Barry Norman talks to John Boorman about his new film. Also, Richard Lester talks about The Three Musketeers, this year's choice for the Royal Film Performance.
Ep.7 Episode 7
Air Date: 1974-03-26
Barry Norman looks at the new films, including Blume in Love starring George Segal, Papillon starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, and Mean Streets.
Ep.8 Episode 8
Air Date: 1974-04-02
Ep.9 Episode 9
Air Date: 1974-04-09
Ep.10 Episode 10
Air Date: 1974-04-16
Barry Norman interviews director Jack Clayton about his film version of The Great Gatsby; Frederic Raphael discusses the problems of adapting novels to the screen; and Sidney Lumet talks about filming the true story of Serpico.
Ep.11 Episode 11
Air Date: 1974-04-23
Ep.12 Episode 12
Air Date: 1974-04-30
Ep.13 Episode 13
Air Date: 1974-05-07
Ep.14 Episode 14
Air Date: 1974-05-14
Ep.15 Episode 15
Air Date: 1974-05-20
Ep.16 Episode 16
Air Date: 1974-05-28
Ep.17 Episode 17
Air Date: 1974-06-04
Ep.18 Episode 18
Air Date: 1974-06-11
Ep.19 Episode 19
Air Date: 1974-06-18
Ep.20 Episode 20
Air Date: 1974-07-02
Ep.21 Episode 21
Air Date: 1974-07-09
Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather (1972) and winner of this year's Cannes Grand Prix for The Conversation (1974) talks about his films and his future. "I'm not going to work for money anymore." Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland introduce their new film S*P*Y*S (1974) and Barry Norman reviews the new releases.
Ep.22 Episode 22
Air Date: 1974-07-16
Ep.23 Episode 23
Air Date: 1974-07-30
Ep.24 Episode 24
Air Date: 1974-08-06
Ep.25 Episode 25
Air Date: 1974-08-13
Ep.26 Episode 26
Air Date: 1974-08-20
Ep.27 Episode 27
Air Date: 1974-08-27
Ep.28 Episode 28
Air Date: 1974-09-03
How long can super-stardom last? Richard Burton was 26 when he was hailed as the great actor of his generation. But, as he says, that was all BC - 'before Cleopatra' - and before Elizabeth Taylor. Earlier this year, in Italy, where Burton was filming The Voyage for Vittorio
Ep.29 Richard Burton: If it Stops, I'm Dead
Air Date: 1974-09-06
How long can super-stardom last? Richard Burton was 26 when he was hailed as the great actor of his generation. But, as he says, that was all BC - 'before Cleopatra' - and before Elizabeth Taylor. Earlier this year, in Italy, where Burton was filming The Voyage for Vittorio De Sica, he talked enigmatically to BARRY NORMAN.
Ep.30 Episode 30
Air Date: 1974-09-10
Barry Norman looks at the new films and reports on the American Film Theatre: this is a new way, already very successful in America of seeing major plays on film. Film 74 shows extracts from The Homecoming, directed by Peter Hall, and Butley, directed by Harold Pinter,
Ep.31 Episode 31
Air Date: 1974-09-17
Barry Norman reviews The Internecine Project (1974) starring James Coburn, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) starring Clint Eastwood, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's prize-winning Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), and talks to Lillian Gish about D. W. Griffith
Ep.32 Episode 32
Air Date: 1974-09-24
Ep.33 Episode 33
Air Date: 1974-10-01
Ep.34 Episode 34
Air Date: 1974-10-15
Ep.35 Episode 35
Air Date: 1974-10-22
Ep.36 Episode 36
Air Date: 1974-10-29
Ep.37 Episode 37
Air Date: 1974-11-05
Ep.38 Episode 38
Air Date: 1974-11-12
Barry Norman looks at two new films made by British directors: The Abdication directed by Anthony Harvey which stars Peter Finch and Liv Ullman and was made on location in Italy last year. Akenfield directed by Peter Hall
Ep.39 Episode 39
Air Date: 1974-11-19
Ep.40 Episode 40
Air Date: 1974-11-26
Ep.41 Episode 41
Air Date: 1974-12-03
Ep.42 Episode 42
Air Date: 1974-12-10
Ep.43 Episode 43
Air Date: 1974-12-17
Barry Norman reviews the new films and looks at the Paramount Part 2 Season at the National Film Theatre.
