Film '72 - Season 3
1 - Episode 1
Air Date: January 8, 1974
2 - Episode 2
Air Date: February 19, 1974
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.
3 - Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell/From Beyond the Grave/The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Air Date: February 26, 1974
4 - Episode 4
Air Date: March 5, 1974
5 - Episode 5
Air Date: March 12, 1974
6 - Episode 6
Air Date: March 19, 1974
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.
7 - Episode 7
Air Date: March 26, 1974
Barry Norman looks at the new films, including Blume in Love starring George Segal, Papillon starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, and Mean Streets.
8 - Episode 8
Air Date: April 2, 1974
9 - Episode 9
Air Date: April 9, 1974
10 - Episode 10
Air Date: April 16, 1974
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.
11 - Episode 11
Air Date: April 23, 1974
12 - Episode 12
Air Date: April 30, 1974
13 - Episode 13
Air Date: May 7, 1974
14 - Episode 14
Air Date: May 14, 1974
15 - Episode 15
Air Date: May 20, 1974
16 - Episode 16
Air Date: May 28, 1974
17 - Episode 17
Air Date: June 4, 1974
18 - Episode 18
Air Date: June 11, 1974
19 - Episode 19
Air Date: June 18, 1974
20 - Episode 20
Air Date: July 2, 1974
21 - Episode 21
Air Date: July 9, 1974
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.
22 - Episode 22
Air Date: July 16, 1974
23 - Episode 23
Air Date: July 30, 1974
24 - Episode 24
Air Date: August 6, 1974
25 - Episode 25
Air Date: August 13, 1974
26 - Episode 26
Air Date: August 20, 1974
27 - Episode 27
Air Date: August 27, 1974
28 - Episode 28
Air Date: September 3, 1974
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
29 - Episode 29
Air Date: September 6, 1974
30 - Episode 30
Air Date: September 10, 1974
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,
31 - Episode 31
Air Date: September 17, 1974
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
32 - Episode 32
Air Date: September 24, 1974
33 - Episode 33
Air Date: October 1, 1974
34 - Episode 34
Air Date: October 15, 1974
35 - Episode 35
Air Date: October 22, 1974
36 - Episode 36
Air Date: October 29, 1974
37 - Episode 37
Air Date: November 5, 1974
38 - Episode 38
Air Date: November 12, 1974
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
39 - Episode 39
Air Date: November 19, 1974
40 - Episode 40
Air Date: November 26, 1974
41 - Episode 41
Air Date: December 3, 1974
42 - Episode 42
Air Date: December 10, 1974
43 - Episode 43
Air Date: December 17, 1974
Barry Norman reviews the new films and looks at the Paramount Part 2 Season at the National Film Theatre.
44 - Episode 44
Air Date: December 31, 1974