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The Best Episodes of Monitor Season 1

Every episode of Monitor Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Monitor Season 1!

The Best Episodes of Monitor Season 1

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 - 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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    Director:Unknown
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    #2 - Sam Wanamaker

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    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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    #3 - 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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    #4 - 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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    #5 - 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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - 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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    Director:Unknown
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    #7 - Episode 7

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    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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    Director:Unknown
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    #8 - 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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    #9 - 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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    Director:Unknown
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    #10 - 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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    Director:Unknown
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    #11 - 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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    Director:Unknown
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    #12 - 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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    #13 - 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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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Kingsley Amis" is the best rated episode of "Monitor" season 1. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/2/1958. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Sam Wanamaker".