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The Best Episodes of Around the World with Orson Welles

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The Best Episodes of Around the World with Orson Welles

Around the World with Orson Welles is a British miniseries, consisting of six 26-minute travelogues hosted by Welles. Produced by Louis Dolivet for then-new network...

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  1. Background image for Revisiting Vienna
    7.8/10(15 votes)

    #1 - Revisiting Vienna

    S1:E3

    Welles revisits Vienna, the setting of one of his most famous films, and one of his greatest performances as the unforgettable Harry Lime in Carol Reed's The Third Man.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries
    7.4/10(47 votes)

    #2 - Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries

    S1:E1

    Welles takes the viewer to the Basque countryside, a remote corner of Europe on the border of Spain and France. He interviews American expatriates and a Basque sheepherder who returned to Europe after spending 23 years in Colorado.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Pays Basque II: La Pelote Basque
    7.2/10(37 votes)

    #3 - Pays Basque II: La Pelote Basque

    S1:E2

    Welles continues his tour of the Basque region of France and Spain and learns about the game of pelota and some of its variants — jai alai, joko garbi, and rebot.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Saint-Germain-des-Pres
    7.2/10(38 votes)

    #4 - Saint-Germain-des-Pres

    S1:E4

    Welles travels to Paris, where his visit to the Saint Germain des Pres neighborhood is chronicled by newspaper columnist Art Buchwald. Welles interviews an artist, poets inventing new letters to describe sounds and night clubs featuring musicians playing hot jazz.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Spain: The Bullfight
    7.2/10(27 votes)

    #5 - Spain: The Bullfight

    S1:E6

    Welles and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Tynan travel to Madrid to explain the nuts and bolts of bullfighting.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for London: The Queen's Pensioners
    7.0/10(27 votes)

    #6 - London: The Queen's Pensioners

    S1:E5

    Welles travels to London to visit an alms house in Hackney for indigent widows created in the 1600s and an old soldier's Chelsea home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for France: The Tragedy of Lurs
    7.0/10(14 votes)

    #7 - France: The Tragedy of Lurs

    S1:E7

    The Dominici affair is a criminal case that occurred in France in the mid-20th century, which gave rise to detailed counter-investigations, emblematic of investigative journalism. On the night of August 4 to 5, 1952, three Englishmen, Sir Jack Drummond, a 61-year-old scientist, his wife Anne Wilbraham, 45, and their 10-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were murdered near their car near La Grand. 'Terre, the farm of the Dominici family, in the town of Lurs in the Basses-Alpes (current Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Patriarch Gaston Dominici was accused of the triple murder and sentenced to death in 1954. In 1957, President René Coty commuted the death sentence and on July 14, 1960, General de Gaulle pardoned and released Gaston Dominici. The affair was followed by numerous journalists, both French and foreign. The episode was ultimately unfinished, but French filmmaker Christophe Cognet recovered his materials and reconstructed the documentary for TV5 broadcast in 2003.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Revisiting Vienna" is the best rated episode of "Around the World with Orson Welles". It scored 7.8/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/4/1955. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries".