Firing Line

Firing Line (1966)


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  • First Air Date: 1966-04-04
  • Last Air Date: 1966-04-04
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 1
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 30 min.
  • Network: Syndication

Summary

Firing Line was an American public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley, Jr., founder and publisher of National Review magazine. Its 1,504 episodes over 33 years made Firing Line the longest-running public affairs show in television history with a single host. The erudite program, which featured many of the most prominent intellectuals and public figures in the United States, won an Emmy Award in 1969.

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Firing Line Seasons

Season 1

First Air Date: 1966-04-04
1 Episodes

Firing Line Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1Episode 2Prayer in the Public Schools120 min
Season 1Episode 3Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate?120 min
Season 1Episode 4Capital Punishment120 min
Season 1Episode 7The Prevailing Bias120 min
Season 1Episode 8The New Frontier: The Great Society120 min
Season 1Episode 10McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future120 min
Season 1Episode 11Vietnam: What Next?120 min
Season 1Episode 12The Future of States' Rights120 min
Season 1Episode 14The Future of the American Theater120 min
Season 1Episode 15Bobby Kennedy and Other Mixed Blessings120 min
Season 1Episode 16The Future of Conservatism120 min
Season 1Episode 19The Role of the Church Militant120 min
Season 1Episode 20Why Are the Students Unhappy?120 min
Season 1Episode 21Senator Dodd and General Klein120 min
Season 1Episode 22Extremism120 min
Season 1Episode 23Civil Rights and Foreign Policy120 min
Season 1Episode 24The President and the Press120 min
Season 1Episode 25Are Public Schools Necessary?120 min
Season 1Episode 26The Playboy Philosophy120 min
Season 1Episode 28Should Labor Power Be Reduced?120 min
Season 1Episode 32Civilian Review Board: Yes or No?120 min
Season 1Episode 35The Failure of Organized Religion120 min
Season 1Episode 38Sports, Persecution, and Christians120 min
Season 1Episode 39The Warren Report: Fact or Fiction?120 min
Season 1Episode 41LBJ and the Intellectuals120 min
Season 1Episode 42Academic Freedom and Berkeley120 min
Season 2Episode 5The Role of the Advocate120 min
Season 2Episode 6The Future of the UN120 min
Season 2Episode 8LBJ and Vietnam120 min
Season 2Episode 9Politics and the President120 min
Season 2Episode 10Black Power120 min
Season 2Episode 11Is There a Role for a Third Party?120 min
Season 2Episode 14The World of LSD120 min
Season 2Episode 15Censorship and the Production Code120 min
Season 2Episode 16The Regular in Politics120 min
Season 2Episode 17How to Protest120 min
Season 2Episode 21Vietnam Protests120 min
Season 2Episode 23The Decline of Anti-Communism120 min
Season 2Episode 24Is It Possible to Be a Good Governor?120 min
Season 2Episode 25Is the World Funny?120 min
Season 2Episode 26Vietnam120 min
Season 2Episode 29A Foreign Policy for the GOP120 min
Season 2Episode 30The Future of the GOP120 min
Season 2Episode 32Medicare120 min
Season 2Episode 38The Struggle for Democracy in Brazil120 min
Season 2Episode 40Mobilizing the Poor120 min
Season 2Episode 42Was Goldwater a Mistake?120 min
Season 3Episode 2The Economic Crisis120 min
Season 3Episode 3Was the Civil-Rights Crusade a Mistake?120 min
Season 3Episode 7The Wallace Crusade120 min
Season 3Episode 8Wiretapping--Electronic Bugging120 min
Season 3Episode 9Philby and Treason120 min
Season 3Episode 10The Culture of the Left120 min
Season 3Episode 14The Wallace Movement120 min
Season 3Episode 18The Avant Garde120 min
Season 3Episode 21Armies of the Night120 min
Season 3Episode 31Capital Punishment120 min
Season 3Episode 32The Hippies120 min
Season 3Episode 41The Influence of TV on American Politics120 min
Season 3Episode 43The Black Panthers120 min
Season 3Episode 45The Republic of New Africa120 min
Season 3Episode 49Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement120 min
Season 4Episode 2The Plight of the American Novelist120 min
Season 4Episode 7The Ripon Society120 min
Season 4Episode 10Restructuring the University120 min
Season 4Episode 13Vietnam and the Intellectuals120 min
Season 4Episode 16The Campus Destroyers120 min
Season 4Episode 20The Trouble with Enoch120 min
Season 4Episode 23The Decline of Christianity120 min
Season 4Episode 24Labor Unions and American Freedom120 min
Season 4Episode 29Reflections on the Current Scene120 min
Season 4Episode 38The Mylai Massacre120 min
Season 5Episode 10The Idea of The Great Ideas120 min
Season 5Episode 31How Does It Look for the Dollar?120 min
Season 5Episode 38Africa and Colonialism120 min
Season 5Episode 46Radical Chic120 min
Season 5Episode 47Vietnamization120 min
Season 6Episode 1Dump Nixon?120 min
Season 6Episode 3Separation of Church and State120 min
Season 6Episode 6The Lawyer's Role120 min
Season 6Episode 7War Crimes Part I120 min
Season 6Episode 10Is It Possible to Be a Good Governor?120 min
Season 6Episode 13The Problems of a Conservative Legislator120 min
Season 6Episode 19Is America Hospitable to the Negro?120 min
Season 6Episode 21The Case Against Freedom120 min
Season 6Episode 25The Place of the Treaty in International Affairs120 min
Season 6Episode 29The Edgar Smith Story: Part I120 min
Season 6Episode 30The Edgar Smith Story: Part II120 min
Season 7Episode 1Vietnamization120 min
Season 7Episode 3Vietnam: Looking Back120 min
Season 7Episode 8The Meaning of China120 min
Season 7Episode 10The Irish Problem120 min
Season 7Episode 12The Greek Dilemma120 min
Season 7Episode 19Richard Nixon and Young Conservatives120 min
Season 7Episode 27Abortion Laws: Pro and Con120 min
Season 7Episode 31Sex Education120 min
Season 7Episode 32Hate America120 min
Season 7Episode 40The Southern Imagination120 min
Season 7Episode 41The Young120 min
Season 7Episode 42A Conservative Look at Marijuana120 min
Season 8Episode 4What are the Challenges for Conservatives in 1973?120 min
Season 8Episode 7Texas Politics120 min
Season 8Episode 8How Does It Go with the Black Movement?120 min
Season 8Episode 13Corporal Punishment120 min
Season 8Episode 16The Equal Rights Amendment120 min
Season 8Episode 17Proposals for Welfare120 min
Season 8Episode 18What to Do About the Post Office?120 min
Season 8Episode 19The Implications of Watergate120 min
Season 8Episode 26Is There an Ecological Crisis?120 min
Season 8Episode 28What Now for the Ghetto?120 min
Season 8Episode 29World Federalism Today120 min
Season 8Episode 30Russian Jewry and American Foreign Policy120 min
Season 8Episode 34Has America Had It?120 min
Season 8Episode 35The Energy Crisis and Energy Policy120 min
Season 8Episode 36Amnesty120 min
Season 8Episode 38The Nixon Presidency120 min
Season 8Episode 39The Mechanism of Moral Development120 min
Season 8Episode 40Heredity, IQ, and Social Issues120 min
Season 8Episode 42The Middle East Explosion and American Detente120 min
Season 8Episode 46The Jesus Movement120 min
Season 9Episode 2The Revisionist Historians120 min
Season 9Episode 5The British Crisis120 min
Season 9Episode 6Enoch Powell and the British Crisis120 min
Season 9Episode 7Tax Reform120 min
Season 9Episode 8Politics and Black Progress120 min
Season 9Episode 11The Question of South Africa120 min
Season 9Episode 12The Question of Rhodesia120 min
Season 9Episode 13The Republican Party and Mr. Nixon120 min
Season 9Episode 14The Blackmailing of the President120 min
Season 9Episode 15Where Do We Go from Here in the Middle East?120 min
Season 9Episode 16Should the United States Disarm?120 min
Season 9Episode 19Amnesty120 min
Season 9Episode 20Government and the Arts120 min
Season 9Episode 21The Future of the GOP120 min
Season 9Episode 23The Limits of Journalistic Investigation120 min
Season 9Episode 24Shockley's Thesis120 min
Season 9Episode 26Public Medicine120 min
Season 9Episode 29The Political Responsibility of Artists120 min
Season 9Episode 31The Nixon Experience and American Conservatism120 min
Season 9Episode 33Chile and the CIA120 min
Season 9Episode 35The Economy120 min
Season 9Episode 41Democratic Culture120 min
Season 9Episode 42Jews and American Politics120 min
Season 10Episode 8The Intellectual's Responsibilities in a Totalitarian Age120 min
Season 10Episode 9William F. Buckley Jr., Malcolm Muggeridge, and the World120 min
Season 10Episode 10Integrity and Journalism120 min
Season 10Episode 13Feminism120 min
Season 10Episode 15Who Killed Bobby Kennedy?120 min
Season 10Episode 24The Ozone Controversy120 min
Season 10Episode 25Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word120 min
Season 10Episode 32The Politics of Henry Kissinger120 min
Season 10Episode 33The British Mess120 min
Season 10Episode 35How the Vietnam War Was Lost120 min
Season 10Episode 36The Practical Limits of Liberalism120 min
Season 10Episode 37Is Our Military Defense Adequate?120 min
Season 11Episode 6The Uses of the United Nations120 min
Season 11Episode 8The Future of Spain120 min
Season 11Episode 18Is There Any Soviet Justice?120 min
Season 11Episode 24Who's More Electable: Ford or Reagan?120 min
Season 11Episode 31Should Books like Little Black Sambo Be on Library Shelves?120 min
Season 11Episode 33Subversion and the Law120 min
Season 11Episode 45Deep Throat and the First Amendment120 min
Season 11Episode 46The Death Penalty120 min
Season 11Episode 47Ten Years of Firing Line (1966-1976): Part I120 min
Season 12Episode 6Borges South America's Titan120 min
Season 12Episode 7Terror in Latin America120 min
Season 12Episode 9Should the U.S. Pressure Argentina?120 min
Season 12Episode 12Is There a Solution for Rhodesia?120 min
Season 12Episode 20What's Happening in South Africa?120 min
Season 12Episode 23What's Up with Eurocommunism?120 min
Season 12Episode 26Human Rights in the USSR120 min
Season 12Episode 27What Have We Learned from the Failure of British Socialism?120 min
Season 12Episode 32The Problem of the Illegals120 min
Season 12Episode 39Is There a Case for Private Property?120 min
Season 12Episode 41Ferdinand Marcos: A Discussion120 min
Season 13Episode 1Debate: Resolved That the Senate Should Ratify the Proposed Panama Canal Treaties120 min
Season 13Episode 2G. Gordon Liddy: An Enigma120 min
Season 13Episode 4Exclusive Conversation with Chiang Ching-kuo120 min
Season 13Episode 7Is Soviet Policy an Extension of Russian Policy?120 min
Season 13Episode 8The Role of Liberals in the Republican Party120 min
Season 13Episode 11The Guilt of Alger Hiss120 min
Season 13Episode 12Debate: Resolved That the Price of Oil and Natural Gas Should Be Regulated by the Federal Government120 min
Season 13Episode 20The Crisis of Intelligence120 min
Season 13Episode 27The Rhodesian Dilemma120 min
Season 13Episode 28Muggeridge Revisited120 min
Season 13Episode 32Three vs. William F. Buckley Jr.120 min
Season 13Episode 35The Mission of the Pope120 min
Season 13Episode 44What Should Our China Policy Be?120 min
Season 14Episode 7NATO and European Security120 min
Season 14Episode 8Reason and Politics120 min
Season 14Episode 14The Rising Tide of Islam120 min
Season 14Episode 17The Crisis of Nuclear Energy120 min
Season 14Episode 22Real Music120 min
Season 14Episode 23Lifting the Trade Ban on Rhodesia120 min
Season 14Episode 30The Television Machine120 min
Season 14Episode 34Human Rights in Vietnam120 min
Season 14Episode 35SALT II and the U.S. Senate120 min
Season 14Episode 36The Crisis in the U.S. Military120 min
Season 14Episode 40Crime and Punishment: Gary Gilmore120 min
Season 14Episode 41Can New York City Govern Itself?120 min
Season 14Episode 42Is There a Role for the Private College?120 min
Season 14Episode 45Debate: Resolved That the United States Should Refuse Recognition to the PLO, Part I120 min
Season 14Episode 46Debate: Resolved That the United States Should Refuse Recognition to the PLO, Part II120 min
Season 14Episode 48The Year That Was120 min
Season 15Episode 2Presidential Hopeful: Ronald Reagan120 min
Season 15Episode 3The United States in the 1980s--Foreign Affairs120 min
Season 15Episode 4The United States in the 1980s--Domestic Affairs120 min
Season 15Episode 7Government Bailout120 min
Season 15Episode 15The Fight over Catholic Orthodoxy120 min
Season 15Episode 16Allard Lowenstein on Firing Line: A Retrospective120 min
Season 15Episode 25Is Camp David Falling Apart?120 min
Season 15Episode 27What Happened at Madison Square Garden?120 min
Season 15Episode 28Defense and the Democrats120 min
Season 15Episode 29Have We Learned Anything about Gun Control?120 min
Season 15Episode 31The Crisis in Labour120 min
Season 15Episode 33How Does One Find Faith?120 min
Season 15Episode 34Do We Need Religion or Religious Institution?120 min
Season 15Episode 43How Should Ex-Communists Cooperate?120 min
Season 15Episode 44Why Is Jazz Neglected?120 min
Season 16Episode 1Are Ideology and the CIA Compatible?120 min
Season 16Episode 2The Abscam Controversy120 min
Season 16Episode 4Are We Menaced by Moral Majority?120 min
Season 16Episode 13The Question of Gay Rights120 min
Season 16Episode 20What to Do about Terrorism?120 min
Season 16Episode 21John Kenneth Galbraith Looks Back120 min
Season 16Episode 26Do We Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine?120 min
Season 16Episode 29The Question of Namibia120 min
Season 16Episode 31A Strategy for Cuba120 min
Season 16Episode 32Does the Warren Report on the Kennedy Assassination Hold Up?120 min
Season 16Episode 33How to Win Arguments120 min
Season 16Episode 36Where Do We Go on Immigration?120 min
Season 16Episode 37Is Modern Architecture Disastrous?120 min
Season 16Episode 39Is There an Answer to Malthus?120 min
Season 16Episode 40The Economic Lot of Minorities120 min
Season 16Episode 41William F. Buckley Jr. on the Firing Line120 min
Season 16Episode 44What Is There to Learn from the Killing of Dr. Tarnower?120 min
Season 16Episode 45Why Are Our Intellectuals So Dumb?120 min
Season 17Episode 5The Issues Involved in Local Control of Reading Matter120 min
Season 17Episode 12The Libertarian Credo120 min
Season 17Episode 30The Economy and the Blacks, Part I120 min
Season 17Episode 31The Economy and the Blacks, Part II120 min
Season 17Episode 35Debate: Resolved That the Feds Should Get Out of Higher Education, Part I120 min
Season 17Episode 36Debate: Resolved That the Feds Should Get Out of Higher Education, Part II120 min
Season 17Episode 38The Roosevelt Legacy120 min
Season 18Episode 3Buckley's Turn to Explain Himself120 min
Season 18Episode 7Confidence and Betrayal120 min
Season 18Episode 11How to Speak, How to Listen120 min
Season 18Episode 23Was Gandhi for Real?120 min
Season 18Episode 30What Is Radio Free Europe Up To?120 min
Season 18Episode 36The Economics and Politics of Race120 min
Season 19Episode 4What's on Malcolm Muggeridge's Mind?120 min
Season 19Episode 29The Election: A View from New York120 min
Season 19Episode 36The Dalai Lama Looks Back120 min
Season 19Episode 44Where Is the GOP Headed?120 min
Season 19Episode 46Is There A Liberal Crack-Up?120 min
Season 20Episode 18Psychiatry: New Explorations120 min
Season 20Episode 25What Are Our Young Novelists Up To?120 min
Season 20Episode 32Three Approaches to Terrorists120 min
Season 20Episode 43What Does PEN Have to Offer?120 min
Season 21Episode 21966-1986: World Leaders120 min
Season 21Episode 41966-1986: A Potpourri of Persuaders120 min
Season 21Episode 5Bill Buckley and Firing Line Get Roasted120 min
Season 21Episode 14Debate: Resolved That We Should Move towards Privatization, Including the Schools, Part I120 min
Season 21Episode 15Debate: Resolved That We Should Move towards Privatization, Including the Schools, Part II120 min
Season 21Episode 20Terrorism Viewed from Abroad120 min
Season 21Episode 33For Central America: A Radical Prescription120 min
Season 21Episode 35The Textbook Controversy in Tennessee120 min
Season 21Episode 40Human Rights, Foreign Policy, and Ronald Reagan120 min
Season 22Episode 5Pull Out of NATO?120 min
Season 22Episode 13Higher Education Has Failed Democracy120 min
Season 22Episode 16Are We Getting Anywhere in the UN?120 min
Season 22Episode 28The Implications of MacDonald v. McGinniss120 min
Season 22Episode 36Three Young Latin Americans Wish to Be Heard120 min
Season 23Episode 2Do Capitalists Go Too Far?120 min
Season 23Episode 4The Libertarian Candidate120 min
Season 23Episode 13Dirty Rock Lyrics120 min
Season 23Episode 23Contra Aid120 min
Season 24Episode 5Saint or Sinner: Junipero Serra120 min
Season 24Episode 14Mother Teresa Talks with William F. Buckley Jr120 min
Season 24Episode 18The Fight for Bach120 min
Season 24Episode 30William F. Buckley Jr. Looks Back on Politics, Etc.120 min
Season 24Episode 31William F. Buckley Jr. Looks Forward on Politics, Etc.120 min
Season 24Episode 32President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan, Part I120 min
Season 25Episode 2The Link between Attitude and Healing120 min
Season 25Episode 12Is England Still Influencing America?120 min
Season 25Episode 28Crime and Punishment120 min
Season 25Episode 32Two Friends Talk, Part I120 min
Season 25Episode 33Two Friends Talk, Part II120 min
Season 25Episode 38What Do We Owe Our Country?120 min
Season 25Episode 40New Insights on the Russian Revolution120 min
Season 26Episode 7Remembering Malcolm Muggeridge120 min
Season 26Episode 14Is There a Problem of Nuclear Waste Disposal?120 min
Season 26Episode 23Is the Democratic Party Falling Apart in the South?120 min
Season 27Episode 23Are Liberal Vulnerabilities Now Apparent?120 min
Season 27Episode 25Why Are We in a Recession?120 min
Season 27Episode 32What's Wrong with the Deficit?, Part I120 min
Season 27Episode 33What's Wrong with the Deficit?, Part II120 min
Season 28Episode 4Do We Need a Federal Community Property Act?120 min
Season 28Episode 14An Approach to Illegitimacy120 min
Season 28Episode 35The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order: New Voices, Part I120 min
Season 28Episode 36The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order: New Voices, Part II120 min
Season 28Episode 37The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order: New Voices, Part III120 min
Season 29Episode 2Are Medical Costs Controllable?120 min
Season 29Episode 29Mini-Series on Crime, Part III: Do We Need Prisons at All120 min
Season 29Episode 30Mini-Series on Crime, Part IV: Realistic Insights into Crime and Punishment120 min
Season 31Episode 21Have We Learned Anything about the Good Society?120 min
Season 32Episode 3The Problems of Gay Life120 min
Season 32Episode 8Is Newt Permanently Damaged?120 min
Season 32Episode 13The Lucas Case and Private-Property Rights120 min
Season 32Episode 33Is the Cyberworld a Threat?120 min
Season 32Episode 34The Problems of Privacy120 min
Season 33Episode 4Did Camelot Have a Dark Side?120 min
Season 33Episode 8Do Economics and Morality Have Anything in Common?120 min
Season 33Episode 29Goldwater Revisited120 min
Season 33Episode 31Looking Back on Bosnia120 min
Season 33Episode 35On Impeachability120 min
Season 33Episode 44The GOP and the Hispanic Vote120 min
Season 34Episode 1Is New York City Out from Under?120 min
Season 34Episode 6Tom Wolfe and His Critics120 min
Season 34Episode 8Legalize Pot?120 min
Season 34Episode 14Kissinger's Years of Renewal120 min
Season 34Episode 16Professor Galbraith Names Names120 min
Season 34Episode 20Looking Back on Senator Joe McCarthy120 min
Season 34Episode 31Philanthropy and the Conservative Movement120 min
Season 34Episode 34The Conservative Search for a Foreign Policy120 min
Season 34Episode 36The End of Firing Line, Part I120 min

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