About this season
The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.
Episodes (44)
1. Episode 1
Aired 8 January 1974
2. Episode 2
Aired 19 February 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
Aired 26 February 1974
4. Episode 4
Aired 5 March 1974
5. Episode 5
Aired 12 March 1974
6. Episode 6
Aired 19 March 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
Aired 26 March 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
Aired 2 April 1974
9. Episode 9
Aired 9 April 1974
10. Episode 10
Aired 16 April 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
Aired 23 April 1974
12. Episode 12
Aired 30 April 1974
13. Episode 13
Aired 7 May 1974
14. Episode 14
Aired 14 May 1974
15. Episode 15
Aired 20 May 1974
16. Episode 16
Aired 28 May 1974
17. Episode 17
Aired 4 June 1974
18. Episode 18
Aired 11 June 1974
19. Episode 19
Aired 18 June 1974
20. Episode 20
Aired 2 July 1974
21. Episode 21
Aired 9 July 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
Aired 16 July 1974
23. Episode 23
Aired 30 July 1974
24. Episode 24
Aired 6 August 1974
25. Episode 25
Aired 13 August 1974
26. Episode 26
Aired 20 August 1974
27. Episode 27
Aired 27 August 1974
28. Episode 28
Aired 3 September 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. Richard Burton: If it Stops, I'm Dead
Aired 6 September 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 De Sica, he talked enigmatically to BARRY NORMAN.
30. Episode 30
Aired 10 September 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
Aired 17 September 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
Aired 24 September 1974
33. Episode 33
Aired 1 October 1974
34. Episode 34
Aired 15 October 1974
35. Episode 35
Aired 22 October 1974
36. Episode 36
Aired 29 October 1974
37. Episode 37
Aired 5 November 1974
38. Episode 38
Aired 12 November 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
Aired 19 November 1974
40. Episode 40
Aired 26 November 1974
41. Episode 41
Aired 3 December 1974
42. Episode 42
Aired 10 December 1974
43. Episode 43
Aired 17 December 1974
Barry Norman reviews the new films and looks at the Paramount Part 2 Season at the National Film Theatre.
44. Episode 44
Aired 31 December 1974