Arena - Season 4 / Year 1978

Arena - Season 4 / Year 1978

Season 4 / Year 1978

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Episodes23
DatesJan 11, 1978 - Dec 6, 1978
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Episodes

Cinema: The Force is with us?
Year 1978Episode 190 min

Cinema: The Force is with us?

Star Wars - the biggest and fastest money-maker in the history of the movies - has opened in Britain at last. What on earth - or in heaven - has caused the phenomenal success of this galactic romp-cum-morality tale? Gavin Millar talks to the producer Gary Kurtz, the designer John Barry and to Mark Hamill who plays the young hero Luke Skywalker.
Jan 11, 1978
Art and Design: The Journey/Henry Moore Meets Leonardo
Year 1978Episode 235 min

Art and Design: The Journey/Henry Moore Meets Leonardo

Henry Moore confronts the anatomical drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci & talks about them in relation to his own life-long study of the human body. Also George Melly takes a day trip which includes a show of Dada & Surrealism at Hayward Gallery.

Jan 18, 1978
Cinema: The Force is with us? Part 2 / Howard Hawks
Year 1978Episode 390 min

Cinema: The Force is with us? Part 2 / Howard Hawks

Jan 25, 1978
Theatre: The Cherry Orchard
Year 1978Episode 490 min

Theatre: The Cherry Orchard

Feb 1, 1978
Cinema: Conrad on Screen
Year 1978Episode 590 min

Cinema: Conrad on Screen

Feb 8, 1978
Art and Design: Carrington/Robert Motherwell/Michael McKinnon
Year 1978Episode 690 min

Art and Design: Carrington/Robert Motherwell/Michael McKinnon

Feb 15, 1978
Cinema: Claude Renoir
Year 1978Episode 790 min

Cinema: Claude Renoir

Feb 22, 1978
Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...
Year 1978Episode 890 min

Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...

Mar 1, 1978
Cinema: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Year 1978Episode 990 min

Cinema: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Mar 8, 1978
Art and Design: Carl Andre/Madame Stravinsky
Year 1978Episode 1090 min

Art and Design: Carl Andre/Madame Stravinsky

Mar 15, 1978
Cinema: Dancing Years/Roseland
Year 1978Episode 1190 min

Cinema: Dancing Years/Roseland

Mar 22, 1978
Theatre: Taking Our Time
Year 1978Episode 1250 min

Theatre: Taking Our Time

The making and performance of a play reflecting the conflict between hand-loom weavers of the North and the newly mechanised world of the Industrial Revolution.

Mar 29, 1978
Art and Design: Way Out West
Year 1978Episode 1390 min

Art and Design: Way Out West

Apr 5, 1978
Theatre: Children of the Gods
Year 1978Episode 1490 min

Theatre: Children of the Gods

Apr 12, 1978
Television: When Is a Play Not a Play?
Year 1978Episode 1590 min

Television: When Is a Play Not a Play?

Apr 17, 1978
Art and Design: George Melly
Year 1978Episode 1690 min

Art and Design: George Melly

May 3, 1978
Theatre: John Byrne/Arnold Wesker
Year 1978Episode 1790 min

Theatre: John Byrne/Arnold Wesker

May 10, 1978
Rock: Tubes on Tour
Year 1978Episode 1890 min

Rock: Tubes on Tour

May 24, 1978
Cinema: François Truffaut/Bill Douglas
Year 1978Episode 1990 min

Cinema: François Truffaut/Bill Douglas

Oct 11, 1978
Theatre: Vanessa Redgrave
Year 1978Episode 2090 min

Theatre: Vanessa Redgrave

Oct 18, 1978
Cinema: Hooray for Hollywood?
Year 1978Episode 2190 min

Cinema: Hooray for Hollywood?

Oct 25, 1978
Cinema: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Year 1978Episode 2290 min

Cinema: The Thirty-Nine Steps

Nov 22, 1978
Cinema: A Report from Bombay
Year 1978Episode 2390 min

Cinema: A Report from Bombay

Dec 6, 1978
Cinema: Robert Altman
Year 1978Episode 2490 min

Cinema: Robert Altman

Dec 20, 1978

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