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The Best Episodes of Monitor

Every episode of Monitor ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Monitor!

The Best Episodes of Monitor

Monitor was a BBC arts programme that was launched on 2 February 1958 and ran until 1965. Huw Wheldon was the first editor from 1958 to...

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  1. Background image for Larkin and Betjeman: Down Cemetery Road
    7.7/10(9 votes)

    #1 - Larkin and Betjeman: Down Cemetery Road

    S8:E3

    With Jonathan Miller including: Philip Larkin, who talks to John Betjeman about himself and his poetry and the city of Hull where he lives. "From a purely practical point of view it's nice being remote, because people on the whole don't drop in on you". and Philip Johnson, New York architect filmed in and around New York. "If you don't have an art collection you don't easily come to me for a house".

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  2. Background image for The Debussy Film
    7.7/10(500 votes)

    #2 - The Debussy Film

    S8:E15

    Wives, mistresses, and the sinister Pierre Louys, artist, photographer, pornographer, make up the strange circle surrounding the life and music of the French composer. A new feature produced and directed by Ken Russell, author of the prize-winning Monitor film on Elgar.

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    7.6/10(51 votes)

    #3 - Pop Goes the Easel

    S5:E13

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. A group of four young artists, who between them have won critical acclaim, exhibition prizes, and Arts Council awards, are among those who have turned for subject-matter to the world of pop singers, pin-ups, space-men, wrestling, and the Twist. Monitor cameras spent an ordinary Saturday with them, from dawn to midnight. The artists and their pictures: Peter Blake, Siriol, she-devil of naked madness Derek Boshier, I wonder what my Heroes think of the Space-race Pauline Boty, Goodbye, cruel world Peter Phillips, For Men Only starring MM and BB Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

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    7.5/10(361 votes)

    #4 - Art and Delusion

    S8:E18

    Three ways of looking at the world. Why so thin? The art critic, John Berger looks at the work of the great sculptor, Giacometti whose strange spindly figures have been one of the great mysteries of modern European sculpture. Berger solves the mystery in terms of Giacometti's theories of vision. The Middle-class Magician The art critic, George Melly went to Brussels and made a film about the Belgian surrealist. Rene Magritte whose pictures are conundrums about the way the world looks. Cheese! Or what really did happen in Andy Warhol's Studio Monitor comes to an end with a surprise of its own making.

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  5. Background image for Big Soft Nellie
    7.2/10(7 votes)

    #5 - Big Soft Nellie

    S5:E6

    With Henry Livings the author and scenes from the production of his new play now running at the Theatre Royal, Stratford.

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  6. Background image for Style in the Theatre and Portrait of an Experience
    6.9/10(32 votes)

    #6 - Style in the Theatre and Portrait of an Experience

    S5:E4

    Style in the Theatre and Portrait of an Experience Michel Saint-Denis now directing rehearsals of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard with the Royal Shakespeare Company talking with Peter Newington. Poems, prose, and photographs from Flanders and The Somme

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    #7 - Kingsley Amis

    S1:E1

    Kingsley Amis interviewed about his new novel "I Like it Here" Peter Brook on "Quarter Ear Music" - illustrated in the studio by a scene from the Stratford Memorial Theatre production of "The Tempest", and by demonstrations of music concrete filmed in the Club d'Essai in Paris. Circus John Schlesinger takes a film camera to Harringay Joseph Cooper at the piano A view of Epstein's sculpture and a report on Tennessee Williams's play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

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    #8 - Sam Wanamaker

    S1:E2

    Sam Wanamaker A report by Alan Brien on the Liverpool Theatre experiment Sir Hugh Casson on Architecture at Sea The problems involved in designing the architecture and interior decoration of an ocean-going liner Busking as a Business A sidelight Angry Young Men - Cult or Myth? Milton Shulman asks Kenneth Tynan, John Wain, Stuart Holroyd, Colin Wilson, Bill Hopkins

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    #9 - Paris: The Left Bank

    S1:E3

    Paris: The Left Bank A study of writers, sculptors, painters -both British and American-who live and work on the Left Bank London: The West End London Street Entertainers considered from an American point of view. Candlelight on Canvas Michael Ayrton looks at the work of a painter who has had a strong influence upon his own work, Georges de la Tour, the master of candlelight.

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    #10 - Belgrade Theatre in Coventry

    S1:E4

    Belgrade Theatre in Coventry Monitor reports from the newly regenerated Coventry city centre and visits the Belgrade Theatre, the first civic theatre to be built in Britain since the Second World War. The Italian Opera Season Behind the scenes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. John Bratby at work on murals for the film "The Horse's Mouth" at Shepperton Film Studios.

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    #11 - Episode 5

    S1:E5

    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.

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    #12 - Episode 6

    S1:E6

    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.

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    #13 - Episode 7

    S1:E7

    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.

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    #14 - Episode 8

    S1:E8

    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.

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    #15 - Episode 9

    S1:E9

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

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    #16 - Episode 10

    S1:E10

    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

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    #17 - Episode 11

    S1:E11

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

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    #18 - Episode 12

    S1:E12

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

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    #19 - Episode 13

    S1:E13

    Theatre - Films - Books - Painting Sculpture - Music - Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon. (The last in the current series)

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    #20 - Why Cornwall?

    S2:E1

    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

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    #21 - Backstage at the Rep

    S2:E2

    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.

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    #22 - Episode 3

    S2:E3

    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.

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    #23 - P. G. Wodehouse

    S2:E4

    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.

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    #24 - The Innocent Eye

    S2:E5

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

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    #25 - The Living Suburb

    S2:E6

    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

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Best Episodes Summary

"Larkin and Betjeman: Down Cemetery Road" is the best rated episode of "Monitor". It scored 7.7/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/15/1964. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Debussy Film".