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Premiered

Sunday, September 14, 1958

Ended: Sunday, July 5, 1959

When does Monitor Season 2 come out?

Monitor Season 2 premiered Sunday, September 14, 1958 on BBC One and ended Sunday, July 5, 1959. The season has 21 episodes.

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Monitor Season 2 episode release dates
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1. Why Cornwall?

Why Cornwall? A film survey - Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Leech, W.S. Graham, Peter Lanyon, and others give their reasons for living and working in Cornwall Leonide Massine in the studio

Sunday · 68 years ago

2. Backstage at the Rep

Backstage at the Rep Monitor cameras go behind the scenes in a Northern Repertory Theatre. Two Different Worlds Hammersmith Reach through the eyes of the painters Carel Weight and Ruskin Spear.

Sunday · 68 years ago

3. Episode 3

Duke Ellington on jazz, with Humphrey Lyttelton and Johnny Dankworth and his Orchestra; Aldous Huxley interviewed by John Lehmann; John Berger discusses three paintings of the nude; and Cilli Wang.

Sunday · 68 years ago

4. P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse in an interview filmed in New York Shadow of Heroes Extracts from the play with Peggy Ashcroft, Emlyn Williams, Mogens Wieth, Stephen Murray and an interview with the author, Robert Ardrey. And Aaron Copland on being an American composer.

Sunday · 68 years ago

5. The Innocent Eye

The Innocent Eye A film study of the child's imagination.

Sunday · 68 years ago

6. The Living Suburb

The Living Suburb A filmed report on a new experiment in city design, and an interview with its architects and William Alwyn on Writing For Films

Sunday · 68 years ago

7. Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky talking about his music, his life, and his friends.

Sunday · 67 years ago

8. The Face of the Madonna

The Face of the Madonna as seen by nine great artists. A Line on Satire Three points of view from cartoonists - Andre Francois, Osbert Lancaster, Ronald Searle filmed at work in their studios Circus A filmed study by John Schlesinger.

Sunday · 67 years ago

9. Tyrone Guthrie

Tyrone Guthrie on the Stratford Memorial Theatre, Ontario

Sunday · 67 years ago

10. Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon, A film profile and Alfred Wallis Cornish fisherman and painter.

Sunday · 67 years ago

11. Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin talks about the personality and music of Bela Bartok and plays illustrations from the solo sonata Bartok wrote for him. Theatre Workshop: A filmed report with Joan Littlewood and Gerry Raffles.

Sunday · 67 years ago

12. A Poet In London

John Betjeman, A poet in London.

Sunday · 67 years ago

13. French Edition

A French edition on film and in the studio. including Comedie Francaise Jacques Deval introduces a filmed impression of France's National Theatre to celebrate the company's arrival in London. Le Corbusier in his Paris studio talking about architecture Auguste Rodin The thoughts and work of a sculptor.

Sunday · 67 years ago

14. Episode 14

Theatre - Films - Books - Painting Sculpture - Music - Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies on film and in the studio every fortnight. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

Sunday · 67 years ago

15. Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum

Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum The ins and outs of High Fidelity. A film study directed by John Schlesinger. Paul Robeson in the studio Bert Haanstra, Holland's leading film director in the studio, with some of his films.

Sunday · 67 years ago

16. Robert Graves

Robert Graves in Majorca, a film profile. Thurston Dart plays the harpsichord, the organ, the piano, and the clavichord, and discusses Handel, a mystery. Bert Haanstra, Holland's leading film director with extracts from some of his films.

Sunday · 67 years ago

17. Paddy Chayefsky

Paddy Chayefsky, author of 'Marty' and The Bachelor Party' interviewed by Richard Hoggart. With extracts from some of his films. Leonard Bernstein, Musical Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra composer of West Side Story, On the Town, and Candide.

Sunday · 67 years ago

18. The Mermaid Theatre

A film study of the birth of a theatre with Bernard Miles.

Sunday · 67 years ago

19. Fritz Kortner/Spain to Streatham: The Guitar Craze

Fritz Kortner, Leading German actor and stage director at work in the Residenztheater, Munich. Interviewed by Robert Robinson. Spain to Streatham: The Guitar Craze. A tour of how Britons are enthusiastically taking up the guitar in all sorts of ways.

Sunday · 67 years ago

20. Carl Ebert at Glyndebourne

A great producer on his approach to opera, filmed during rehearsals for his production of 'Cosi fan Tutte' by Mozart.

Sunday · 67 years ago

21. Wanda Landowska

Wanda Landowska. A filmed interview with the world's most famous harpsichord player, who is eighty today. The Romantic Movement. Paintings from the Council of Europe Exhibition, opening in London on July 10.

Sunday · 67 years ago

Monitor Season 2 guest stars

  • P.G. Wodehouse

    P.G. Wodehouse

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Igor Stravinsky

  • Tyrone Guthrie

    Tyrone Guthrie

  • Georges Simenon

    Georges Simenon

  • Yehudi Menuhin

    Yehudi Menuhin

  • Robert Graves

    Robert Graves

  • Paddy Chayefsky

    Paddy Chayefsky

  • Fritz Kortner

    Fritz Kortner

  • Carl Ebert

  • Wanda Landowska

Monitor Season 2 FAQ

When does Monitor Season 2 come out?

Monitor Season 2 premiered Sunday, September 14, 1958 on BBC One.

How many episodes are in Monitor Season 2?

Monitor Season 2 has 21 episodes.

Are new episodes of Monitor Season 2 released weekly?

New episodes are released every two weeks.

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