The South Bank Show (Season 9)

Sir Alec Guinness (Episode 1)

Air date: 1985-10-06

Runtime: 60 min

Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor (Episode 2)

Air date: 1985-10-13

Runtime: 60 min

Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year (Episode 3)

Air date: 1985-10-20

Runtime: 60 min

Theatre of Comedy workshop (Episode 4)

Air date: 1985-10-27

Runtime: 60 min

Pete Townshend: After the Fire (Episode 5)

Air date: 1985-11-03

Runtime: 60 min

Sir Stephen Spender (Episode 6)

Air date: 1985-11-10

Runtime: 60 min

Marguerite Duras (Episode 7)

Air date: 1985-11-17

Runtime: 60 min

Karole Armitage (Episode 8)

Air date: 1985-11-24

Runtime: 60 min

Peter Shaffer (Episode 9)

Air date: 1985-12-01

Runtime: 60 min

John Cleese (Episode 10)

Air date: 1986-01-12

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Cleese was silently scripting A Fish Called Wanda at the time this interview was filmed. It is not mentioned in this program. What is mentioned is Cleese's spectrum of work from sketch comedy to industrial training films to therapeutical books. Video clips include sequences from Cleese's classics: At Last the 1948 Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and Fawlty Towers.

Vladimir Ashkenazy (Episode 11)

Air date: 1986-01-19

Runtime: 60 min

Paul Schrader (Episode 12)

Air date: 1986-01-26

Runtime: 60 min

Purcell's Dido and Aenaes (Episode 13)

Air date: 1986-02-02

Runtime: 60 min

Patrick Heron (Episode 14)

Air date: 1986-02-09

Runtime: 60 min

Blue Note Records (Episode 15)

Air date: 1986-02-16

Runtime: 60 min

Michala Petri (Episode 16)

Air date: 1986-02-23

Runtime: 60 min

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Episode 17)

Air date: 1986-03-02

Runtime: 60 min

Absolute Beginners (film) (Episode 18)

Air date: 1986-03-09

Runtime: 60 min

Arthur Boyd (Episode 19)

Air date: 1986-03-23

Runtime: 60 min

Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical (Episode 20)

Air date: 1986-04-06

Runtime: 60 min

British Soap Operas (Episode 21)

Air date: 1986-04-13

Runtime: 60 min

Hull Truck Theatre Company (Episode 22)

Air date: 1986-04-20

Runtime: 60 min

Velvet Underground (Episode 23)

Air date: 1986-04-27

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: The South Bank Show’s Velvet Underground documentary contains interviews with Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Moe Tucker, Nico, Andy Warhol and lots of early Velvet performance footage.

Al Jolson (Episode 24)

Air date: 1986-05-04

Runtime: 60 min