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Season 1

80 episodes July 3, 1978

Episodes

1 The Producer (1) Jul 3, 1978 No ratings 2 The Director Jul 10, 1978 No ratings 3 The Screenwriter Jul 17, 1978 No ratings 4 Acting in the Cinema Jul 24, 1978 No ratings 5 Cinematography Jul 31, 1978 No ratings 6 Designing Movies Aug 7, 1978 No ratings 7 The Making of a Motion Picture (1) Aug 14, 1978 No ratings 8 Sex and Violence in the Cinema Aug 21, 1978 No ratings 9 How Movies Are Sold Aug 28, 1978 No ratings 10 A Portrait of John Ford (1) Sep 4, 1978 No ratings 11 Zanuck Aug 2, 1979 No ratings 12 The Hollywood Ten: An Interview with Writer Ring Lardner Jr. Aug 3, 1979 No ratings 13 The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (1) Jan 28, 1980 No ratings 14 The Western Feb 4, 1980 No ratings 15 Hooray for Hollywood Feb 18, 1980 No ratings 16 A Portrait of George Stevens (1) Feb 25, 1980 No ratings 17 The Critic Mar 24, 1980 No ratings 18 More Special Effects Apr 8, 1981 No ratings 19 The Nightmare People: Horror in the Cinema Apr 15, 1981 No ratings 20 The Animators Apr 22, 1981 No ratings 21 The Cinema of John Huston Apr 28, 1981 No ratings 22 The Cinema of Frank Capra (1) May 6, 1981 No ratings 23 More Film Criticism May 12, 1981 No ratings 24 Powell and Pressburger May 13, 1981 No ratings 25 Thirty Years of British Cinema May 20, 1981 No ratings 26 David Lean and Sir Carol Reed May 27, 1981 No ratings 27 Women in the Cinema Jun 3, 1981 No ratings 28 The Serial Jun 10, 1981 No ratings 29 The Cinema of Henry Hathaway Jun 17, 1981 No ratings 30 The Business of Directing Jul 4, 1981 No ratings 31 The Making of a Motion Picture (2) Jul 11, 1981 No ratings 32 The Making of a Motion Picture (3) Jul 18, 1981 No ratings 33 A Conversation with Pauline Kael Jul 22, 1981 No ratings 34 Gods and Goddesses of the Cinema Jul 29, 1981 No ratings 35 The Cinema of Elia Kazan Aug 12, 1981 No ratings 36 Anatomy of Suspense Aug 19, 1981 No ratings 37 The Making of a Motion Picture (4) Sep 22, 1981 No ratings 38 The Big Studios: Twentieth Century-Fox May 8, 1982 No ratings 39 A Conversation with Otto Preminger Jun 5, 1982 No ratings 40 A Portrait of George Stevens (2) Aug 30, 1982 No ratings 41 A Portrait of John Ford (2) Aug 26, 1983 No ratings 42 A Conversation with Joseph L. Mankiewicz Aug 31, 1983 No ratings 43 The Producer (3) Sep 15, 1983 No ratings 44 Two Film Critics Jun 6, 1984 No ratings 45 An Interview with Samuel Fuller Jun 7, 1984 No ratings 46 Women in the Cinema: The Writer Jun 8, 1984 No ratings 47 Stars of the Cinema: Stewart Granger Jun 11, 1984 No ratings 48 The Cinema of King Vidor Jun 12, 1984 No ratings 49 The Making of a Musical Jun 15, 1984 No ratings 50 The Western Revisited Jun 25, 1984 No ratings 51 Music in the Cinema Jun 26, 1984 No ratings 52 The Screenwriter (2) Jul 6, 1984 No ratings 53 Cinematography (2) Jul 14, 1984 No ratings 54 Special Effects Jul 16, 1984 No ratings 55 The Cinema of Henry King Jul 17, 1984 No ratings 56 The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (2) Jul 19, 1984 No ratings 57 Stars of the Cinema: Richard Widmark Aug 1, 1984 No ratings 58 The Cinema of Frank Capra (2) Aug 9, 1984 No ratings 59 The Classic Western Oct 3, 1984 No ratings 60 An Afternoon with Jack Lemmon Jun 12, 1985 No ratings 61 Two Tragic Stars: Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift Jun 19, 1985 No ratings 62 The Marx Brothers and Their Writers Jul 3, 1985 No ratings 63 The Cinematic Genius of Rouben Mamoulian Jul 10, 1985 No ratings 64 All Singing, All Dancing Jul 17, 1985 No ratings 65 The Music Men Jul 24, 1985 No ratings 66 The Screenwriter (3) Jul 31, 1985 No ratings 67 Lotusland Aug 7, 1985 No ratings 68 Hollywood Portraits: David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock Aug 14, 1985 No ratings 69 The Producer (2) Aug 19, 1985 No ratings 70 Stars on Stars Aug 21, 1985 No ratings 71 Mystery Film and the Detective on Screen Aug 28, 1985 No ratings 72 Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Sep 9, 1985 No ratings 73 Superstars: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope Jun 30, 1986 No ratings 74 An Interview with Greer Garson Jul 1, 1986 No ratings 75 The Preston Sturges Story (1) Jul 2, 1986 No ratings 76 The Preston Sturges Story (2) Jul 3, 1986 No ratings 77 Two Film Directors: Ronald Neame and Richard Fleischer Jul 4, 1986 No ratings 78 A Portrait of Billy Wilder Jul 7, 1986 No ratings 79 Two Film Critics: Richard Schickel and David Robinson Jul 8, 1986 No ratings 80 Hollywood Portraits: Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky Jul 9, 1986 No ratings