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The Best Episodes of Monitor Season 3

Every episode of Monitor Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Monitor Season 3!

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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 1965. He was also the principal interviewer and anchor. Wheldon

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Monitor Season 3 Episode 1 - TH White in Alderney
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    #1 - TH White in Alderney

    S3:E1

    The author of "The Sword in the Stone" interviewed on film by Robert Robinson at his home in the Channel Islands.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Monitor Season 3 Episode 2 - Sean O'Casey
    5.2/10(15 votes)

    #2 - Sean O'Casey

    S3:E2

    A filmed profile with an extract from the current production of his play 'Cock-a-Doodle Dandy'.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Monitor Season 3 Episode 3 - Episode 3
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    #3 - Episode 3

    S3:E3

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Peter Newington.

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  4. Monitor Season 3 Episode 4 - William Golding
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    #4 - William Golding

    S3:E4

    Scottish Painters Allan McClelland narrates this 1959 film by Ken Russell - a double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings. William Golding A film profile of the author of "Lord of the Flies" at his home in Salisbury.

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  5. Monitor Season 3 Episode 5 - Christopher Isherwood
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    #5 - Christopher Isherwood

    S3:E5

    A recording of Colin Davis rehearsing a movement from a Mozart Symphony with the London Mozart Players. Christopher Isherwood talks to Robert Robinson about his literary career.

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  6. Monitor Season 3 Episode 6 - Sir Thomas Beecham on Delius
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    #6 - Sir Thomas Beecham on Delius

    S3:E6

    Sir Thomas Beecham on Delius Jacques Lipchitz One of the world's greatest sculptors talks about his work in his New York studio.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Monitor Season 3 Episode 7 - Episode 7
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #7 - Episode 7

    S3:E7

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

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  8. Monitor Season 3 Episode 8 - Diego Rivera
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    #8 - Diego Rivera

    S3:E8

    A film study shot in Mexico of the work of the great painter of The Mexican Revolution.

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  9. Monitor Season 3 Episode 9 - Michel St. Denis
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    #9 - Michel St. Denis

    S3:E9

    Michel St. Denis discussing his production of Stravinsky's 'Oedipus Rex' which opened at Sadler's Wells on Friday, January 15.

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  10. Monitor Season 3 Episode 10 - Rod Steiger
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    #10 - Rod Steiger

    S3:E10

    Rod Steiger who attacks what he thinks are misconceptions about the 'Method' school of acting, with John Fernald. Mortimer's Hampstead An impression in words and pictures by John Mortimer of the part of London where he lives and where the action of his new play 'The Wrong Side of the Park' takes place.

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  11. Monitor Season 3 Episode 11 - Lawrence Durrell
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    #11 - Lawrence Durrell

    S3:E11

    Lawrence Durrell, The poet and novelist filmed at his home in the Camargue, talking about his Alexandrian novels. And an interview with Michelangelo.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Monitor Season 3 Episode 12 - Journey into a Lost World
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    #12 - Journey into a Lost World

    S3:E12

    Journey into a Lost World John Betjeman in the Fun Palaces and Pleasure Domes of London. Mary McCarthy The American novelist and critic, author of 'The Company She Keeps', 'A Charmed Life', 'Venice Observed', and others, in an interview recorded in the studio.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Monitor Season 3 Episode 13 - Orson Welles
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    #13 - Orson Welles

    S3:E13

    Tonight Orson Welles talks about his work as actor, director, film-maker with extracts from his films 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Magnificent Ambersons'.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Monitor Season 3 Episode 14 - Profile of a Quartet
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    #14 - Profile of a Quartet

    S3:E14

    Profile of a Quartet A film story of the life and work of a string quartet with The Allegri Quartet. The film directed by Humphrey Burton The Epstein Collection of primitive and exotic sculpture

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  15. Monitor Season 3 Episode 15 - Cranks at Work
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    #15 - Cranks at Work

    S3:E15

    Cranks at Work John Cranko choreographer and revue-writer talking about his work directing dancers and rehearsing a new revue. W. H. Auden in his New York home, talking with Philip Burton The Strange World of Hieronymus Bosch

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  16. Monitor Season 3 Episode 16 - Young Artista
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    #16 - Young Artista

    S3:E16

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts presents as a special edition What does it mean to be a young artist trying to break into the Art World, to live by painting?

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Monitor Season 3 Episode 17 - Tyrone Guthrie in the studio
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    #17 - Tyrone Guthrie in the studio

    S3:E17

    Tyrone Guthrie in the studio Bird-Men and Warriors Elisabeth Frink and her sculpture as seen by Laurie Lee.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Monitor Season 3 Episode 18 - The Caretaker
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    #18 - The Caretaker

    S3:E18

    Scenes from 'The Caretaker' now running at the Duchess Theatre, London and an interview with the author Harold Pinter.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Monitor Season 3 Episode 19 - Episode 19
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    #19 - Episode 19

    S3:E19

    Rudolf Bing at 'The Met'" A portrait of an impresario filmed at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. "A Sign of the Times" A film about the City of Florence.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Monitor Season 3 Episode 20 - Episode 20
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    #20 - Episode 20

    S3:E20

    Tonight's edition includes. The Miners' Picnic A brass band carnival filmed at Bedlington, Northumberland. Picasso An impression of the century's greatest and most controversial artist with Douglas Cooper, John Berger and a sequence from Paul Haessert's film 'A Visit to Picasso'. (A retrospective exhibition of Picasso's work, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, opens at the Tate Gallery on July 5) Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Monitor Season 3 Episode 21 - Monitor Summer Film Festival
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    #21 - Monitor Summer Film Festival

    S3:E21

    A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'. Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon. 1. Simenon in Switzerland The creator of Inspector Maigret interviewed at his home near Lausanne. 2. Guitar Craze A look at the guitar, instrument of 'hound-dogs' and Bach addicts, Her Majesty's prisoners, and Salvation Army bands. See page 3

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Monitor Season 3 Episode 22 - Monitor Summer Film Festival
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    #22 - Monitor Summer Film Festival

    S3:E22

    A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'. Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon. -1- The Innocent Eye A study of the Imagination of children as revealed in their paintings. -2- Ezra Pound in Italy A visit to the seventy-four-year-old American poet at the castle of Brunnenburg in North Italy.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Monitor Season 3 Episode 23 - Monitor Summer Film Festival
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    #23 - Monitor Summer Film Festival

    S3:E23

    A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'. Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon. Lawrence Durrell The author of the Alexandrian Quartet interviewed at his home in the Camargue. Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum A look at Hi-Fi.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Monitor Season 3 Episode 24 - Monitor Summer Film Festival
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    #24 - Monitor Summer Film Festival

    S3:E24

    Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon. Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh At work at his home and at rehearsals of his opera 'Noye's Fludde'. Putney Painters: Ruskin Spear and Carel Wright Two painters who live and work in the same part of London but who make different worlds of it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Monitor Season 3 Episode 25 - Monitor Summer Film Festival
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    #25 - Monitor Summer Film Festival

    S3:E25

    A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'. Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon. Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde A study of two Scots painters who live, work, and exhibit their paintings together. Carl Ebert at Glyndebourne One of the world's leading opera producers filmed at work during his last summer as Artistic Director at Glyndebourne.

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"TH White in Alderney" is the best rated episode of "Monitor" season 3. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/13/1959. This episode is rated 5.2 points higher than the second-best, "Sean O'Casey".