Firing Line - All Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S02E05 | The Role of the Advocate | Jan 19, 1967 |
S02E06 | The Future of the UN | Jan 19, 1967 |
S02E08 | LBJ and Vietnam | Mar 6, 1967 |
S02E09 | Politics and the President | Mar 7, 1967 |
S02E10 | Black Power | Mar 7, 1967 |
S02E11 | Is There a Role for a Third Party? | Mar 8, 1967 |
S02E14 | The World of LSD | Apr 10, 1967 |
S02E15 | Censorship and the Production Code | Apr 10, 1967 |
S02E16 | The Regular in Politics | May 1, 1967 |
S02E17 | How to Protest | May 1, 1967 |
S02E21 | Vietnam Protests | Jun 26, 1967 |
S02E23 | The Decline of Anti-Communism | Jun 29, 1967 |
S02E24 | Is It Possible to Be a Good Governor? | Jul 6, 1967 |
S02E25 | Is the World Funny? | Jul 7, 1967 |
S02E26 | Vietnam | Jul 8, 1967 |
S02E29 | A Foreign Policy for the GOP | Sep 11, 1967 |
S02E30 | The Future of the GOP | Sep 14, 1967 |
S02E32 | Medicare | Sep 25, 1967 |
S02E38 | The Struggle for Democracy in Brazil | Nov 13, 1967 |
S02E40 | Mobilizing the Poor | Dec 11, 1967 |
S02E42 | Was Goldwater a Mistake? | Dec 14, 1967 |
Season 3
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S03E02 | The Economic Crisis | Jan 8, 1968 |
S03E03 | Was the Civil-Rights Crusade a Mistake? | Jan 15, 1968 |
S03E07 | The Wallace Crusade | Jan 24, 1968 |
S03E08 | Wiretapping--Electronic Bugging | Jan 24, 1968 |
S03E09 | Philby and Treason | Feb 26, 1968 |
S03E10 | The Culture of the Left | Feb 26, 1968 |
S03E14 | The Wallace Movement | Apr 15, 1968 |
S03E18 | The Avant Garde | May 7, 1968 |
S03E21 | Armies of the Night | May 28, 1968 |
S03E31 | Capital Punishment | Sep 3, 1968 |
S03E32 | The Hippies | Sep 3, 1968 |
S03E41 | The Influence of TV on American Politics | Sep 3, 1968 |
S03E43 | The Black Panthers | Nov 13, 1968 |
S03E45 | The Republic of New Africa | Nov 18, 1968 |
S03E49 | Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement | Dec 12, 1968 |
Season 4
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S04E02 | The Plight of the American Novelist | Jan 6, 1969 |
S04E07 | The Ripon Society | Feb 24, 1968 |
S04E10 | Restructuring the University | Feb 25, 1969 |
S04E13 | Vietnam and the Intellectuals | Apr 3, 1969 |
S04E16 | The Campus Destroyers | Apr 21, 1969 |
S04E20 | The Trouble with Enoch | May 19, 1969 |
S04E23 | The Decline of Christianity | Jun 12, 1969 |
S04E24 | Labor Unions and American Freedom | Jun 12, 1969 |
S04E29 | Reflections on the Current Scene | Dec 6, 1969 |
S04E38 | The Mylai Massacre | Jan 15, 1970 |
Season 5
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S05E10 | The Idea of The Great Ideas | Mar 13, 1970 |
S05E31 | How Does It Look for the Dollar? | Sep 3, 1970 |
S05E38 | Africa and Colonialism | Oct 20, 1970 |
S05E46 | Radical Chic | Dec 17, 1970 |
S05E47 | Vietnamization | Dec 17, 1970 |
Season 6
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S06E01 | Dump Nixon? | May 26, 1971 |
S06E03 | Separation of Church and State | Apr 22, 1971 |
S06E06 | The Lawyer's Role | Jun 24, 1971 |
S06E07 | War Crimes Part I | Jul 7, 1971 |
S06E10 | Is It Possible to Be a Good Governor? | Jul 15, 1971 |
S06E13 | The Problems of a Conservative Legislator | Jul 15, 1971 |
S06E19 | Is America Hospitable to the Negro? | Oct 2, 1971 |
S06E21 | The Case Against Freedom | Oct 2, 1971 |
S06E25 | The Place of the Treaty in International Affairs | Nov 2, 1971 |
S06E29 | The Edgar Smith Story: Part I | Dec 6, 1971 |
S06E30 | The Edgar Smith Story: Part II | Dec 6, 1971 |
Season 7
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S07E01 | Vietnamization | Jan 12, 1972 |
S07E03 | Vietnam: Looking Back | Jan 17, 1972 |
S07E08 | The Meaning of China | Feb 29, 1972 |
S07E10 | The Irish Problem | Mar 25, 1972 |
S07E12 | The Greek Dilemma | Apr 20, 1972 |
S07E19 | Richard Nixon and Young Conservatives | Jun 16, 1972 |
S07E27 | Abortion Laws: Pro and Con | Jul 25, 1972 |
S07E31 | Sex Education | Oct 2, 1972 |
S07E32 | Hate America | Oct 3, 1972 |
S07E40 | The Southern Imagination | Dec 12, 1972 |
S07E41 | The Young | Dec 21, 1972 |
S07E42 | A Conservative Look at Marijuana | Dec 21, 1972 |
Season 8
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S08E04 | What are the Challenges for Conservatives in 1973? | Jan 10, 1973 |
S08E07 | Texas Politics | Jan 23, 1973 |
S08E08 | How Does It Go with the Black Movement? | Jan 23, 1973 |
S08E13 | Corporal Punishment | Feb 27, 1973 |
S08E16 | The Equal Rights Amendment | Mar 30, 1973 |
S08E17 | Proposals for Welfare | Apr 23, 1973 |
S08E18 | What to Do About the Post Office? | Apr 23, 1973 |
S08E19 | The Implications of Watergate | May 16, 1973 |
S08E26 | Is There an Ecological Crisis? | May 1, 1973 |
S08E28 | What Now for the Ghetto? | Jul 24, 1973 |
S08E29 | World Federalism Today | Jul 30, 1973 |
S08E30 | Russian Jewry and American Foreign Policy | Jul 30, 1973 |
S08E34 | Has America Had It? | Aug 20, 1973 |
S08E35 | The Energy Crisis and Energy Policy | Sep 13, 1973 |
S08E36 | Amnesty | Sep 13, 1973 |
S08E38 | The Nixon Presidency | Sep 28, 1973 |
S08E39 | The Mechanism of Moral Development | Oct 16, 1973 |
S08E40 | Heredity, IQ, and Social Issues | Oct 16, 1973 |
S08E42 | The Middle East Explosion and American Detente | Nov 12, 1973 |
S08E46 | The Jesus Movement | Dec 7, 1973 |
Season 9
Season 10
Episode | Name | Airdate |
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S10E08 | The Intellectual's Responsibilities in a Totalitarian Age | Feb 5, 1975 |
S10E09 | William F. Buckley Jr., Malcolm Muggeridge, and the World | Feb 5, 1975 |
S10E10 | Integrity and Journalism | Mar 10, 1975 |
S10E13 | Feminism | Mar 31, 1975 |
S10E15 | Who Killed Bobby Kennedy? | Apr 11, 1975 |
S10E24 | The Ozone Controversy | Jul 9, 1975 |
S10E25 | Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word | Jul 9, 1975 |
S10E32 | The Politics of Henry Kissinger | Sep 10, 1975 |
S10E33 | The British Mess | Sep 14, 1975 |
S10E35 | How the Vietnam War Was Lost | Sep 10, 1975 |
S10E36 | The Practical Limits of Liberalism | Oct 3, 1975 |
S10E37 | Is Our Military Defense Adequate? | Oct 9, 1975 |
Season 11
Episode | Name | Airdate |
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S11E06 | The Uses of the United Nations | Jan 26, 1976 |
S11E08 | The Future of Spain | Feb 23, 1976 |
S11E18 | Is There Any Soviet Justice? | May 6, 1976 |
S11E24 | Who's More Electable: Ford or Reagan? | Jul 15, 1976 |
S11E31 | Should Books like Little Black Sambo Be on Library Shelves? | Aug 26, 1976 |
S11E33 | Subversion and the Law | Sep 20, 1976 |
S11E45 | Deep Throat and the First Amendment | Dec 13, 1976 |
S11E46 | The Death Penalty | Dec 13, 1976 |
S11E47 | Ten Years of Firing Line (1966-1976): Part I | Dec 13, 1976 |
Season 12
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S12E06 | Borges South America's Titan | Feb 1, 1977 |
S12E07 | Terror in Latin America | Feb 1, 1977 |
S12E09 | Should the U.S. Pressure Argentina? | Jan 31, 1977 |
S12E12 | Is There a Solution for Rhodesia? | Mar 9, 1977 |
S12E20 | What's Happening in South Africa? | May 12, 1977 |
S12E23 | What's Up with Eurocommunism? | Jun 27, 1977 |
S12E26 | Human Rights in the USSR | Jul 25, 1977 |
S12E27 | What Have We Learned from the Failure of British Socialism? | Jul 25, 1977 |
S12E32 | The Problem of the Illegals | Sep 14, 1977 |
S12E39 | Is There a Case for Private Property? | Nov 7, 1977 |
S12E41 | Ferdinand Marcos: A Discussion | Nov 17, 1977 |
Season 13
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S13E01 | Debate: Resolved That the Senate Should Ratify the Proposed Panama Canal Treaties | Jan 13, 1978 |
S13E02 | G. Gordon Liddy: An Enigma | Jan 11, 1978 |
S13E04 | Exclusive Conversation with Chiang Ching-kuo | Nov 12, 1977 |
S13E07 | Is Soviet Policy an Extension of Russian Policy? | Jan 30, 1978 |
S13E08 | The Role of Liberals in the Republican Party | Mar 16, 1978 |
S13E11 | The Guilt of Alger Hiss | Mar 21, 1978 |
S13E12 | Debate: Resolved That the Price of Oil and Natural Gas Should Be Regulated by the Federal Government | Mar 30, 1978 |
S13E20 | The Crisis of Intelligence | May 31, 1978 |
S13E27 | The Rhodesian Dilemma | Jul 21, 1978 |
S13E28 | Muggeridge Revisited | Jun 27, 1978 |
S13E32 | Three vs. William F. Buckley Jr. | Jul 21, 1978 |
S13E35 | The Mission of the Pope | Sep 6, 1978 |
S13E44 | What Should Our China Policy Be? | Dec 12, 1978 |
Season 14
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S14E07 | NATO and European Security | Feb 12, 1979 |
S14E08 | Reason and Politics | Feb 12, 1979 |
S14E14 | The Rising Tide of Islam | Mar 16, 1979 |
S14E17 | The Crisis of Nuclear Energy | May 4, 1979 |
S14E22 | Real Music | Jun 8, 1979 |
S14E23 | Lifting the Trade Ban on Rhodesia | Jun 15, 1979 |
S14E30 | The Television Machine | Jun 29, 1979 |
S14E34 | Human Rights in Vietnam | Sep 6, 1979 |
S14E35 | SALT II and the U.S. Senate | Sep 20, 1979 |
S14E36 | The Crisis in the U.S. Military | Sep 20, 1979 |
S14E40 | Crime and Punishment: Gary Gilmore | Oct 11, 1979 |
S14E41 | Can New York City Govern Itself? | Oct 30, 1979 |
S14E42 | Is There a Role for the Private College? | Oct 20, 1979 |
S14E45 | Debate: Resolved That the United States Should Refuse Recognition to the PLO, Part I | Nov 28, 1979 |
S14E46 | Debate: Resolved That the United States Should Refuse Recognition to the PLO, Part II | Nov 28, 1979 |
S14E48 | The Year That Was | Dec 13, 1979 |
Season 15
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S15E02 | Presidential Hopeful: Ronald Reagan | Jan 14, 1980 |
S15E03 | The United States in the 1980s--Foreign Affairs | Jan 17, 1980 |
S15E04 | The United States in the 1980s--Domestic Affairs | Jan 17, 1980 |
S15E07 | Government Bailout | Feb 14, 1980 |
S15E15 | The Fight over Catholic Orthodoxy | Apr 22, 1980 |
S15E16 | Allard Lowenstein on Firing Line: A Retrospective | Apr 22, 1980 |
S15E25 | Is Camp David Falling Apart? | Jul 21, 1980 |
S15E27 | What Happened at Madison Square Garden? | Aug 15, 1980 |
S15E28 | Defense and the Democrats | Aug 15, 1980 |
S15E29 | Have We Learned Anything about Gun Control? | Jul 21, 1980 |
S15E31 | The Crisis in Labour | Sep 4, 1980 |
S15E33 | How Does One Find Faith? | Sep 6, 1980 |
S15E34 | Do We Need Religion or Religious Institution? | Sep 6, 1980 |
S15E43 | How Should Ex-Communists Cooperate? | Dec 4, 1980 |
S15E44 | Why Is Jazz Neglected? | Dec 9, 1980 |
Season 16
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S16E01 | Are Ideology and the CIA Compatible? | Jan 5, 1981 |
S16E02 | The Abscam Controversy | Jan 5, 1981 |
S16E04 | Are We Menaced by Moral Majority? | Jan 22, 1981 |
S16E13 | The Question of Gay Rights | Mar 25, 1981 |
S16E20 | What to Do about Terrorism? | Jun 5, 1981 |
S16E21 | John Kenneth Galbraith Looks Back | Jun 5, 1981 |
S16E26 | Do We Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine? | Jul 15, 1981 |
S16E29 | The Question of Namibia | Jul 17, 1981 |
S16E31 | A Strategy for Cuba | Jul 15, 1981 |
S16E32 | Does the Warren Report on the Kennedy Assassination Hold Up? | Sep 10, 1981 |
S16E33 | How to Win Arguments | Sep 10, 1981 |
S16E36 | Where Do We Go on Immigration? | Oct 1, 1981 |
S16E37 | Is Modern Architecture Disastrous? | Oct 1, 1981 |
S16E39 | Is There an Answer to Malthus? | Oct 15, 1981 |
S16E40 | The Economic Lot of Minorities | Nov 12, 1981 |
S16E41 | William F. Buckley Jr. on the Firing Line | Nov 12, 1981 |
S16E44 | What Is There to Learn from the Killing of Dr. Tarnower? | Dec 3, 1981 |
S16E45 | Why Are Our Intellectuals So Dumb? | Dec 3, 1981 |
Season 17
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S17E05 | The Issues Involved in Local Control of Reading Matter | Jan 11, 1982 |
S17E12 | The Libertarian Credo | Apr 2, 1982 |
S17E30 | The Economy and the Blacks, Part I | Jul 13, 1982 |
S17E31 | The Economy and the Blacks, Part II | Jul 13, 1982 |
S17E35 | Debate: Resolved That the Feds Should Get Out of Higher Education, Part I | Oct 5, 1982 |
S17E36 | Debate: Resolved That the Feds Should Get Out of Higher Education, Part II | Oct 5, 1982 |
S17E38 | The Roosevelt Legacy | Oct 27, 1982 |
Season 18
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S18E03 | Buckley's Turn to Explain Himself | Jan 24, 1983 |
S18E07 | Confidence and Betrayal | Feb 22, 1983 |
S18E11 | How to Speak, How to Listen | Apr 14, 1983 |
S18E23 | Was Gandhi for Real? | Jun 9, 1983 |
S18E30 | What Is Radio Free Europe Up To? | Sep 15, 1983 |
S18E36 | The Economics and Politics of Race | Nov 3, 1983 |
Season 19
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S19E04 | What's on Malcolm Muggeridge's Mind? | Feb 19, 1984 |
S19E29 | The Election: A View from New York | Aug 31, 1984 |
S19E36 | The Dalai Lama Looks Back | Sep 27, 1984 |
S19E44 | Where Is the GOP Headed? | Dec 6, 1984 |
S19E46 | Is There A Liberal Crack-Up? | Dec 11, 1984 |
Season 20
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S20E18 | Psychiatry: New Explorations | May 22, 1985 |
S20E25 | What Are Our Young Novelists Up To? | Jul 17, 1985 |
S20E32 | Three Approaches to Terrorists | Sep 26, 1985 |
S20E43 | What Does PEN Have to Offer? | Dec 2, 1985 |
Season 21
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S21E02 | 1966-1986: World Leaders | Jan 14, 1986 |
S21E04 | 1966-1986: A Potpourri of Persuaders | Jan 14, 1986 |
S21E05 | Bill Buckley and Firing Line Get Roasted | Jan 14, 1986 |
S21E14 | Debate: Resolved That We Should Move towards Privatization, Including the Schools, Part I | May 2, 1986 |
S21E15 | Debate: Resolved That We Should Move towards Privatization, Including the Schools, Part II | May 2, 1986 |
S21E20 | Terrorism Viewed from Abroad | May 30, 1986 |
S21E33 | For Central America: A Radical Prescription | Oct 2, 1986 |
S21E35 | The Textbook Controversy in Tennessee | Oct 10, 1986 |
S21E40 | Human Rights, Foreign Policy, and Ronald Reagan | Oct 16, 1986 |
Season 22
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S22E05 | Pull Out of NATO? | Feb 23, 1987 |
S22E13 | Higher Education Has Failed Democracy | Apr 15, 1987 |
S22E16 | Are We Getting Anywhere in the UN? | May 27, 1987 |
S22E28 | The Implications of MacDonald v. McGinniss | Sep 18, 1987 |
S22E36 | Three Young Latin Americans Wish to Be Heard | Oct 1, 1987 |
Season 23
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S23E02 | Do Capitalists Go Too Far? | Jan 7, 1988 |
S23E04 | The Libertarian Candidate | Jan 19, 1988 |
S23E13 | Dirty Rock Lyrics | Jun 8, 1988 |
S23E23 | Contra Aid | Aug 24, 1988 |
Season 24
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S24E05 | Saint or Sinner: Junipero Serra | Jan 10, 1989 |
S24E14 | Mother Teresa Talks with William F. Buckley Jr | Jun 2, 1989 |
S24E18 | The Fight for Bach | Jun 7, 1989 |
S24E30 | William F. Buckley Jr. Looks Back on Politics, Etc. | Oct 16, 1989 |
S24E31 | William F. Buckley Jr. Looks Forward on Politics, Etc. | Oct 16, 1989 |
S24E32 | President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan, Part I | Nov 17, 1989 |
Season 25
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S25E02 | The Link between Attitude and Healing | Jan 22, 1990 |
S25E12 | Is England Still Influencing America? | May 22, 1990 |
S25E28 | Crime and Punishment | Sep 20, 1990 |
S25E32 | Two Friends Talk, Part I | Oct 11, 1990 |
S25E33 | Two Friends Talk, Part II | Oct 11, 1990 |
S25E38 | What Do We Owe Our Country? | Dec 13, 1990 |
S25E40 | New Insights on the Russian Revolution | Dec 13, 1990 |
Season 26
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S26E07 | Remembering Malcolm Muggeridge | Jan 15, 1991 |
S26E14 | Is There a Problem of Nuclear Waste Disposal? | Jun 4, 1991 |
S26E23 | Is the Democratic Party Falling Apart in the South? | Aug 29, 1991 |
Season 27
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S27E23 | Are Liberal Vulnerabilities Now Apparent? | Sep 16, 1992 |
S27E25 | Why Are We in a Recession? | Oct 6, 1992 |
S27E32 | What's Wrong with the Deficit?, Part I | Dec 8, 1992 |
S27E33 | What's Wrong with the Deficit?, Part II | Dec 8, 1992 |
Season 28
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S28E04 | Do We Need a Federal Community Property Act? | Jan 12, 1993 |
S28E14 | An Approach to Illegitimacy | May 23, 1993 |
S28E35 | The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order: New Voices, Part I | Aug 16, 1993 |
S28E36 | The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order: New Voices, Part II | Aug 16, 1993 |
S28E37 | The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order: New Voices, Part III | Aug 16, 1993 |
Season 29
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S29E02 | Are Medical Costs Controllable? | Jan 26, 1994 |
S29E29 | Mini-Series on Crime, Part III: Do We Need Prisons at All | Oct 4, 1994 |
S29E30 | Mini-Series on Crime, Part IV: Realistic Insights into Crime and Punishment | Oct 4, 1994 |
Season 31
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S31E21 | Have We Learned Anything about the Good Society? | Jul 11, 1996 |
Season 32
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S32E03 | The Problems of Gay Life | Jan 23, 1997 |
S32E08 | Is Newt Permanently Damaged? | Mar 20, 1997 |
S32E13 | The Lucas Case and Private-Property Rights | Apr 29, 1997 |
S32E33 | Is the Cyberworld a Threat? | Oct 14, 1997 |
S32E34 | The Problems of Privacy | Oct 29, 1997 |
Season 33
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S33E04 | Did Camelot Have a Dark Side? | Jan 13, 1998 |
S33E08 | Do Economics and Morality Have Anything in Common? | Apr 7, 1998 |
S33E29 | Goldwater Revisited | Jul 9, 1998 |
S33E31 | Looking Back on Bosnia | Jul 9, 1998 |
S33E35 | On Impeachability | Sep 18, 1998 |
S33E44 | The GOP and the Hispanic Vote | Dec 3, 1998 |
Season 34
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S34E01 | Is New York City Out from Under? | Jan 13, 1999 |
S34E06 | Tom Wolfe and His Critics | Jan 19, 1999 |
S34E08 | Legalize Pot? | Jan 12, 1999 |
S34E14 | Kissinger's Years of Renewal | Apr 15, 1999 |
S34E16 | Professor Galbraith Names Names | May 18, 1999 |
S34E20 | Looking Back on Senator Joe McCarthy | Jun 29, 1999 |
S34E31 | Philanthropy and the Conservative Movement | Oct 4, 1999 |
S34E34 | The Conservative Search for a Foreign Policy | Nov 2, 1999 |
S34E36 | The End of Firing Line, Part I | Dec 14, 1999 |
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