TEN YEARS OF FIRING LINE: 1966-1976 (TV)
Summary
One in this talk/interview series hosted by William F. Buckley, Jr. This special hour-long episode of "Firing Line" is a ten-year retrospective, featuring clips from seventeen interviews. Guests and topics discussed include the following: British socialist Richard Crossman outlines the political duty of the left to achieve the impossible; Australian feminist Germaine Greer comments on the general depravity of advertising; British politician Harold MacMillan reflects on Europe's colonial history and imagines the potential for a future unified Europe; Claire Booth Luce traces the origins of chauvinism to the Old Testament; Mary McCarthy protests the policies of reviewers who ignore her books; Rebecca West discusses the incompetency of several British politicians; author Norman Mailer explains why he writes about himself; and Stephen Spender and Hugh Kenner offer two views on the political intent of artists. Next, George McGovern, Morris Udall, Rhodesian Prime Minister Enoch Powell, Oswald Mosley, and author Eudora Welty speak on the subject of human freedom. Finally, Malcolm Muggeridge and Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen discuss determinism, and harpsichordist Fernando Valenti plays a baroque piece and comments on modern popular music.
(This series also ran in syndication from 1966 to 1971 and from 1975 to 1977.)
Cataloging of this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1998.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: October 29, 1976
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:45
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:08626
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews; Specials
- SUBJECT HEADING: Advertising; Authors; Baroque music; Britain - Politics and government; Rhodesia - Officials - Talk/Interviews; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Specials
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1971-1999
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Warren Steibel … Executive Producer
- Ann Delaney … Producer
- Paul Sweeney … Associate Producer
- Larry Lancit … Director
- Robin Wu … Researcher
- William F. Buckley, Jr. … Host
- Richard Crossman
- Germaine Greer
- Hugh Kenner
- Claire Booth Luce
- Harold MacMillan
- Norman Mailer
- Mary McCarthy
- George McGovern
- Oswald Mosley
- Malcolm Muggeridge
- Enoch Powell
- Fulton J. Sheen
- Stephen Spender
- Morris Udall
- Fernando Valenti
- Eudora Welty
- Rebecca West