List of Firing Line episodes
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Firing Line was an American public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley, Jr..
This is a list of episodes that aired originally from 1966 to 1999.
Episodes
Season 1 (1966)
| No. in season |
No. in series |
Title | Guest | Taping date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Poverty: Hopeful or Hopeless?" | Michael Harrington | April 4, 1966 |
| 2 | 2 | "Prayer in the Public Schools" | James Pike | April 6, 1966 |
| 3 | 3 | "Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate?" | Norman Thomas | April 8, 1966 |
| 4 | 4 | "Capital Punishment" | Steve Allen | April 11, 1966 |
| 5 | 5 | "Where Does the Civil-Rights Movement Go Now?" | James Farmer | April 18, 1966 |
| 6 | 6 | "Should the House Committee on Un-American Activities Be Abolished?" | John Henry Faulk | April 21, 1966 |
| 7 | 7 | "The Prevailing Bias" | David Susskind | May 2, 1966 |
| 8 | 8 | "The New Frontier: The Great Society" | Richard N. Goodwin | May 6, 1966 |
| 9 | 9 | "Civil Disobedience: How Far Can It Go?" | Dick Gregory | May 16, 1966 |
| 10 | 10 | "McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future" | Leo Cherne | May 16, 1966 |
| 11 | 11 | "Vietnam: What Next?" | Staughton Lynd | May 23, 1966 |
| 12 | 12 | "The Future of States' Rights" | Harry Golden | May 23, 1966 |
| 13 | 13 | "The Future of the Republican Party" | Clare Boothe Luce | May 26, 1966 |
| 14 | 14 | "The Future of the American Theater" | David Merrick | June 6, 1966 |
| 15 | 15 | "Bobby Kennedy and Other Mixed Blessings" | Murray Kempton | June 6, 1966 |
| 16 | 16 | "The Future of Conservatism" | Barry Goldwater | June 9, 1966 |
| 17 | 17 | "Public Power vs. Private Power" | Albert Gore Sr. | June 9, 1966 |
| 18 | 18 | "Communists and Civil Liberties" | Joseph L. Rauh Jr. | June 10, 1966 |
| 19 | 19 | "The Role of the Church Militant" | William Sloane Coffin | June 27, 1966 |
| 20 | 20 | "Why Are the Students Unhappy?" | Theodore Bikel | June 27, 1966 |
| 21 | 21 | "Senator Dodd and General Klein" | Thomas J. Dodd | August 22, 1966 |
| 22 | 22 | "Extremism" | Dore Schary | August 22, 1966 |
| 23 | 23 | "Civil Rights and Foreign Policy" | Floyd McKissick | August 22, 1966 |
| 24 | 24 | "The President and the Press" | Pierre Salinger | September 12, 1966 |
| 25 | 25 | "Are Public Schools Necessary?" | Paul Goodman | September 12, 1966 |
| 26 | 26 | "The Playboy Philosophy" | Hugh Hefner | September 12, 1966 |
| 27 | 27 | "Do Liberals Make Good Republicans?" | John Chafee | September 15, 1966 |
| 28 | 28 | "Should Labor Power Be Reduced?" | Victor Riesel | September 19, 1966 |
| 29 | 29 | "Communist China and the United Nations" | Max Lerner | September 19, 1966 |
| 30 | 30 | "National Priorities and Disarmament" | Seymour Melman | October 3, 1966 |
| 31 | 31 | "LBJ and Evans and Novak" | Rowland Evans | October 3, 1966 |
| 32 | 32 | "Civilian Review Board: Yes or No?" | Theodore W. Kheel | October 7, 1966 |
| 33 | 33 | "Criminals and the Supreme Court" | Aryeh Neier | November 7, 1966 |
| 34 | 34 | "Open Housing" | John A. Morsell | November 7, 1966 |
| 35 | 35 | "The Failure of Organized Religion" | Paul Weiss | November 14, 1966 |
| 36 | 36 | "What to Do with the American Teenager?" | Murray the K | November 14, 1966 |
| 37 | 37 | "Elections 1966 and 1968" | Robert Novak | November 21, 1966 |
| 38 | 38 | "Sports, Persecution, and Christians" | Arnold Lunn | November 28, 1966 |
| 39 | 39 | "The Warren Report: Fact or Fiction?" | Mark Lane | December 1, 1966 |
Season 2 (1967)
| No. in season |
No. in series |
Title | Guest(s) | Taping date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | "Rhodesia, the UN, and Southern Africa" | Conor Cruise O'Brien | January 12, 1967 |
| 2 | 41 | "LBJ and the Intellectuals" | Hans Morgenthau | January 12, 1967 |
| 3 | 42 | "Academic Freedom and Berkeley" | Harold Taylor | January 16, 1967 |
| 4 | 43 | "Presidential Politics" | F. Clifton White | January 16, 1967 |
| 5 | 44 | "The Role of the Advocate" | F. Lee Bailey | January 19, 1967 |
| 6 | 45 | "The Future of the UN" | Francis T.P. Plimpton | January 19, 1967 |
| 7 | 46 | "Do the States Have a Chance?" | Jesse M. Unruh | March 6, 1967 |
| 8 | 47 | "LBJ and Vietnam" | March 6, 1967 | |
| 9 | 48 | "Politics and the President" | Tom Wicker | March 7, 1967 |
| 10 | 49 | "Black Power" | Nat Hentoff | March 7, 1967 |
| 11 | 50 | "Is There a Role for a Third Party?" | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. | March 8, 1967 |
| 12 | 51 | "U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia" | Clayton Fritchey | March 8, 1967 |
| 13 | 52 | "Do We Have Anything Left to Fear from Socialism?" | Sidney Hook | March 9, 1967 |
| 14 | 53 | "The World of LSD" | Timothy Leary | April 10, 1967 |
| 15 | 54 | "Censorship and the Production Code" | Otto Preminger | April 10, 1967 |
| 16 | 55 | "The Regular in Politics" | Carmine DeSapio | May 1, 1967 |
| 17 | 56 | "How to Protest" | Dwight Macdonald | May 1, 1967 |
| 18 | 57 | "The Liberals and LBJ" | John P. Roche | May 15, 1967 |
| 19 | 58 | "The Poverty Problem" | Joseph S. Clark Jr. | May 15, 1967 |
| 20 | 59 | "Is Ramparts Magazine Un-American?" | Robert Scheer | June 26, 1967 |
| 21 | 60 | "Vietnam Protests" | Benjamin Spock | June 26, 1967 |
| 22 | 61 | "The Mideast Crisis" | Alfred Lilienthal | June 29, 1967 |
| 23 | 62 | "The Decline of Anti-Communism [1967]" | Fred Schwarz | June 29, 1967 |
| 24 | 63 | "Is It Possible to Be a Good Governor? [1967]" | Ronald Reagan | July 6, 1967 |
| 25 | 64 | "Is the World Funny?" | Groucho Marx | July 7, 1967 |
| 26 | 65 | "Vietnam" | Robert Vaughn | July 8, 1967 |
| 27 | 66 | "The Ghetto" | Kenneth B. Clark | August 28, 1967 |
| 28 | 67 | "Municipal Government" | Sam Yorty | August 28, 1967 |
| 29 | 68 | "A Foreign Policy for the GOP" | Charles H. Percy | September 11, 1967 |
| 30 | 69 | "The Future of the GOP" | Richard Nixon | September 14, 1967 |
| 31 | 70 | "Vietnam and the GOP" | Thruston Ballard Morton | September 25, 1967 |
| 32 | 71 | "Medicare" | Wilbur J. Cohen | September 25, 1967 |
| 33 | 72 | "Is There a New God?" | John Robinson | October 6, 1967 |
| 34 | 73 | "The English Conservatives" | Peregrine Worsthorne | October 6, 1967 |
| 35 | 74 | "The Union in Modern Society" | Clive Jenkins | October 7, 1967 |
| 36 | 75 | "Is Socialism the Answer?" | Michael Foot | October 7, 1967 |
| 37 | 76 | "War Crimes" | Ralph Schoenman | November 13, 1967 |
| 38 | 77 | "The Struggle for Democracy in Brazil" | Carlos Lacerda | November 13, 1967 |
| 39 | 78 | "Do We Need Public Schools?" | Ernest van den Haag | December 11, 1967 |
| 40 | 79 | "Mobilizing the Poor" | Saul Alinsky | December 11, 1967 |
| 41 | 80 | "Is There a Need for Intelligence?" | Allen Dulles | December 14, 1967 |
| 42 | 81 | "Was Goldwater a Mistake?" | Mark Hatfield | December 14, 1967 |
References
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