The South Bank Show
-Season 9
Episodes
1. Sir Alec Guinness
Oct 6, 1985No overview available.
2. Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
Oct 13, 1985No overview available.
3. Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
Oct 20, 1985No overview available.
4. Theatre of Comedy workshop
Oct 27, 1985No overview available.
5. Pete Townshend: After the Fire
Nov 3, 1985No overview available.
6. Sir Stephen Spender
Nov 10, 1985No overview available.
7. Marguerite Duras
Nov 17, 1985No overview available.
8. Karole Armitage
Nov 24, 1985No overview available.
9. Peter Shaffer
Dec 1, 1985No overview available.
10. John Cleese
Jan 12, 1986Cleese 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.
11. Vladimir Ashkenazy
Jan 19, 1986No overview available.
12. Paul Schrader
Jan 26, 1986No overview available.
13. Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
Feb 2, 1986No overview available.
14. Patrick Heron
Feb 9, 1986No overview available.
15. Blue Note Records
Feb 16, 1986No overview available.
16. Michala Petri
Feb 23, 1986No overview available.
17. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Mar 2, 1986No overview available.
18. Absolute Beginners (film)
Mar 9, 1986No overview available.
19. Arthur Boyd
Mar 23, 1986No overview available.
20. Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
Apr 6, 1986No overview available.
21. British Soap Operas
Apr 13, 1986No overview available.
22. Hull Truck Theatre Company
Apr 20, 1986
No overview available.
23. Velvet Underground
Apr 27, 1986The 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.
24. Al Jolson
May 4, 1986No overview available.