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- Wide-ranging arts program.
- Features Observer critic William Feaver on Painting the End of the World, Bill Brandt's selection of landscape photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the best of science fiction illustration.
- A look at American photographer Paul Strand and recent trends in British photography.
- Writer Germaine Greer and her god-daughter Ruby take a look at a child's Edinburgh Festival and some of the fringe activities, including Gruppo Teatro Libero from Rome and Quentin Crisp.
- 1975– 25mTV EpisodeGeorge Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities; Henry Moore discusses Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings.
- BBC documentary that catches scenes in the famous Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
- Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British film-makers and their unusual partnership. Includes clips from many of their films.
- A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and mostly before the camera.
- Comprising many short segments about the state of the video industry, both real and imagined, many featuring cameos by celebrities.
- 1975– 1h 35m7.6 (20)TV Episode
- Documentary looking at the short but brilliant career of legendary rock 'n' roll star Buddy Holly. Features interviews with contemporaries and fans including Paul McCartney.
- About Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality. Mishima was a pen name he adopted en route to his chosen life as a writer.
- Documentary showcasing the life and works of surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
- In 1987, Robert Crumb presents himself: raised by a Marine father, educated in Catholic schools, married at 21 in Cleveland where he worked for a greeting card company, dropping acid in 1965, heading to San Francisco and getting in on the formation of Zap Comix, gaining celebrity, loving old time jazz, starting a band, living in a commune, meeting Aline Kominsky who became his second wife and his partner in art, having a daughter, and developing a more realistic drawing style. The confessions include his loneliness, his obsessions with women, his bewilderment by fame, his sense of the disintegration of Sixties' subculture, his nervous breakdown in 1973, and his peace now.
- Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist and author Art Spiegelman discusses his graphic novel "Maus," which chronicles how his father survived the Holocaust. Also included a journey to Auschwitz, with his wife and art director Francoise Mouly-Spiegelman.
- Alan Yentob interviews TV dramatist Dennis Potter about his work through the years.
- An outline and retrospective of the heavy metal genre that swept the world in the 1980s.
- 1975– 1h6.9 (13)TV EpisodeFrankie Howard looks back on his life and career.
- Traces the history of the patata from the food staple of the Incas to the raw material of the gigantic crisp industry. Featuring an Irish politician, an English historian, a French chef and a Peruvian geneticist.
- Two segments about men on the 25th anniversary of their death: Wilma Wilcox speaks about her husband, the crime photographer Weegee, and Beatrice Wood talks her lover Marcel Duchamp and his urinal.