Film '72 (Season 3)

Episode 1 (Episode 1)

Air date: 1974-01-08

Episode 2 (Episode 2)

Air date: 1974-02-19

Overview: 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.

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell/From Beyond the Grave/The Satanic Rites of Dracula (Episode 3)

Air date: 1974-02-26

Episode 4 (Episode 4)

Air date: 1974-03-05

Episode 5 (Episode 5)

Air date: 1974-03-12

Episode 6 (Episode 6)

Air date: 1974-03-19

Overview: 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.

Episode 7 (Episode 7)

Air date: 1974-03-26

Overview: Barry Norman looks at the new films, including Blume in Love starring George Segal, Papillon starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, and Mean Streets.

Episode 8 (Episode 8)

Air date: 1974-04-02

Episode 9 (Episode 9)

Air date: 1974-04-09

Episode 10 (Episode 10)

Air date: 1974-04-16

Overview: 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.

Episode 11 (Episode 11)

Air date: 1974-04-23

Episode 12 (Episode 12)

Air date: 1974-04-30

Episode 13 (Episode 13)

Air date: 1974-05-07

Episode 14 (Episode 14)

Air date: 1974-05-14

Episode 15 (Episode 15)

Air date: 1974-05-20

Episode 16 (Episode 16)

Air date: 1974-05-28

Episode 17 (Episode 17)

Air date: 1974-06-04

Episode 18 (Episode 18)

Air date: 1974-06-11

Episode 19 (Episode 19)

Air date: 1974-06-18

Episode 20 (Episode 20)

Air date: 1974-07-02

Episode 21 (Episode 21)

Air date: 1974-07-09

Overview: 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.

Episode 22 (Episode 22)

Air date: 1974-07-16

Episode 23 (Episode 23)

Air date: 1974-07-30

Episode 24 (Episode 24)

Air date: 1974-08-06

Episode 25 (Episode 25)

Air date: 1974-08-13

Episode 26 (Episode 26)

Air date: 1974-08-20

Episode 27 (Episode 27)

Air date: 1974-08-27

Episode 28 (Episode 28)

Air date: 1974-09-03

Overview: 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

Richard Burton: If it Stops, I'm Dead (Episode 29)

Air date: 1974-09-06

Overview: 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.

Episode 30 (Episode 30)

Air date: 1974-09-10

Overview: 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,

Episode 31 (Episode 31)

Air date: 1974-09-17

Overview: 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

Episode 32 (Episode 32)

Air date: 1974-09-24

Episode 33 (Episode 33)

Air date: 1974-10-01

Episode 34 (Episode 34)

Air date: 1974-10-15

Episode 35 (Episode 35)

Air date: 1974-10-22

Episode 36 (Episode 36)

Air date: 1974-10-29

Episode 37 (Episode 37)

Air date: 1974-11-05

Episode 38 (Episode 38)

Air date: 1974-11-12

Overview: 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

Episode 39 (Episode 39)

Air date: 1974-11-19

Episode 40 (Episode 40)

Air date: 1974-11-26

Episode 41 (Episode 41)

Air date: 1974-12-03

Episode 42 (Episode 42)

Air date: 1974-12-10

Episode 43 (Episode 43)

Air date: 1974-12-17

Overview: Barry Norman reviews the new films and looks at the Paramount Part 2 Season at the National Film Theatre.

Episode 44 (Episode 44)

Air date: 1974-12-31