Arena - Season 3

1. Edinburgh Festival

Aired: 9/7/1977

Features the 1977 Edinburgh International Festival with a new production of Carmen, the experimental shows, Film Festival, Television Festival, and art galleries.

2. Cinema

Aired: 9/14/1977

with Gavin Millar returns for a new season after a visit to Hollywood, which despite rumours of slump and panic is still the unquestioned capital of the cinema world. We talked to one of its ruling princes, John Franken heimer, director of The Manchurian Candidate and Grand Prix, about his career in the Dream Factory, and especially his latest suspense thriller Black Sunday.

3. Cinema

Aired: 9/21/1977

4. Art and Design

Aired: 9/28/1977

5. Cinema

Aired: 10/5/1977

Diane Keaton and Woody Allen talk about the filming of 'Annie Hall' and their long friendship.

6. Theatre

Aired: 10/12/1977

7. Cinema: Greece

Aired: 10/19/1977

8. Art and Design: Richard Seifert

Aired: 10/26/1977

9. Cinema

Aired: 11/2/1977

10. Theatre: Hands Off the Classics

Aired: 11/9/1977

In the 17th century Troilus and Cressida was censored and in the 18th century Tate gave King Lear a happy ending. The programme debates the line between interpretation and vandalism.

11. Cinema: 21st London Film Festival

Aired: 11/16/1977

12. Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag

Aired: 11/23/1977

13. Cinema: 21st London Film Festival - Part 2

Aired: 11/30/1977

14. Theatre: Leonard Rossiter

Aired: 12/7/1977

15. Cinema: The Deep

Aired: 12/14/1977

16. Cinema: The Force is with us?

Aired: 1/11/1978

17. Art and Design: 'The Journey' or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist

Aired: 1/18/1978

George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities; Henry Moore discusses Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings.

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

Aired: 1/25/1978

19. Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard

Aired: 2/1/1978

20. Cinema: Joseph Conrad

Aired: 2/8/1978

21. Art and Design: Carrington

Aired: 2/15/1978

22. Cinema: Claude Renoir

Aired: 2/22/1978

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

Aired: 3/1/1978

24. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Aired: 3/8/1978

25. Art and Design: Carl Andre

Aired: 3/15/1978

26. Cinema: Dancing Years

Aired: 3/22/1978

27. Theatre: Taking Our Time

Aired: 3/29/1978

28. Art and Design: Way Out West

Aired: 4/5/1978

29. Theatre: Children of the Gods

Aired: 4/12/1978

30. Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?

Aired: 4/17/1978

A tribute to the British filmmaker Alan Clarke (1935-1990).

31. Art and Design: George Melly

Aired: 5/3/1978

32. Theatre: Arnold Wesker

Aired: 5/10/1978

33. Rock: Tubes on Tour

Aired: 5/24/1978