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Episode 1

A specially commissioned film by Orson Welles examines bullfighting. Meanwhile, writer Truman Capote discusses the death of fiction.

The Art of Bullfighting/The Death of Fiction

The Artist in France

A look at modern architecture in Britain including interviews with the critic Iain Nairn and the architects Frederick Gibberd and Hubert Bennett.

Episode 2

Tempo visits France for a film about the abstract artist Graham Sutherland who is seen at work in his studio.

The Artist at Work

The Negro Spiritual

The author of the James Bond books, Ian Fleming, talks to Dan Farson.

Analysis of the Hero

The New Glossy Magazines

The Spoof Prima Donna

The Man with the Moon

A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose – But Is It Art?

Choreography: The Art of Norman Morrice

Annie Ross

Art from Australia

Lions Led by Donkeys

An attempt to explore the television technique in relation to modern ballet.

Dark Descent

How artists bring terror into their pictures.

The Mark of Feae

The Life I Sing About

The Saltire in the Wind

Carols Mean Christmas

Mods and Rockers is a dance created by Peter Darrell for the Western Theatre Ballet based on the music of the Beatles.

Mods and Rockers

A Dialogue of Actors

Postscript to the Ballet

A Wind of Change: The Art of Franco Zeffirelli

The Great Shakespeare Exhibition at Stratford-upon-Avon takes you back to 23 April 1564, the day of the poet's birth.

A Vision of England

The Mime of Jacques Lecoq

The Christopher Marlowe Murder Mystery

Songs, recitations, and Victorian melodrama are used for a series of vignettes on aspects of crime. From the righteous to the romantic and ultimately, the repellent.

Crime to Remember

Ice Shows

A profile of the American blues singer Odetta.

Odetta

A profile on Russian-American singer Sophie Tucker.

Some of These Days

Two-Handers

A Star of India

The Prince Maker

The South African cast of the 'Wait a Minim' theatre show bring their sparkle and zest for life to the small screen.

More Minim

A behind the scenes look at a production of the musical Maggie May.

The Making of a Musical

The Music Ladder

Looking back on the past year since John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

A Man of Runnymede

The Blues Came Walkin': Part 1

The Blues Came Walkin': Part 2

Look Back at Tomorrow

Lee Strasberg

Boss Guitar

The Knack

Successful Failure

Tempo visits the booming film title making industry, where some have said that the titles are now a lot more interesting than the films they introduce.

The Title Makers

Playwright Harold Pinter talks about his background and influences in a documentary that also includes extracts from The Homecoming with the original Aldwych Theatre cast.

Profile No. 1: Harold Pinter

Profile No. 2: Jean-Luc Godard

Profile No. 3: Michael Tippett

Profile No. 4: Charles Eames

Profile No. 5: Alain Robbe-Grillet

Profile No. 6: Orson Welles

Contrasting the professional life of Welsh pop singer Tom Jones who shot to fame last year with Canadian-born modern ballet dancer Lynne Seymour who performs with the Royal Ballet Company.

A Tale of Two Talents

Profile No. 7: André Courrèges

An interview with actor/comedian Zero Mostel on the set of 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'.

A Guided Tour of Zero Mostel

Entertainers: Theatre

The evolution of London's community of street musicians.

You've Got a Nerve

Entertainers: Comedians

A profile of jazz musician Duke Ellington.

Entertainers: Jazz

An interview with French comedian and director Jacques Tati on the set of his latest film 'Playtime'.

Tativille

Blood, Sweat & Champagne

At EMI Studios in London, Tempo films the pianist Stan Tracey as he works on a new jazz suite interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

Jazz in Wonderland

A look at satirical magazines 'Krokodil' (USSR), 'Le Canard Enchaine' (France) and 'Private Eye' (UK).

The Offenders

Awards presented by the Design and Art Directors Association.

The Image Wizards

Bauhaus

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

"Is music just a sound? Is a truck passing by music? Are sounds just sounds or are they Beethoven? Is there such a thing as silence?" John Cage, composer.

Sound

The old idea of a fixed, unchanging world has been thrown out. In today's world of information, can the artist provide a crucial early warning system of coming changes?

Information

Nostalgia is.. Good..? Bad..? Is life today too hectic and rushed? Does nostalgia close one's eye to the present?

Nostalgia

An attempt to explain and visualise the experience of a person undergoing an LSD trip. The film uses repetition and changes to audio and visual perception via avant garde techniques.

Take a Simple Action and Look at It

Performer and Composer: Daniel Barenboim on Beethoven

Performer and Composer: George Malcolm on Scarlatti

Performer and Composer: Gervase de Peyer on Brahms

Performer and Composer: Vlado Perlemuter on Ravel

Performer and Composer: Janet Baker on Schumann

Contemporary Drama: Waiting for Godot

The Actor and the Role: Irene Worth

The Actor and the Role: Edith Evans

The Actor and the Role: Donald Pleasence

The Actor and the Role: Sybil Thorndike

Michael Hordern stars as the exiled Prospero, who lives on a desolate island with his daughter Miranda. When his usurping brother Antonio sails by, Prospero uses magic to conjure a storm that wrecks the ship and torments the survivors, including the King of Naples and Antonio, thus changing all of their lives.

The Actor and the Role: Michael Hordern

The Actor and the Role: Diane Cilento – Miss Julie

Expendability

ITV's seminal arts programme, Tempo ran for eight years through a decade which saw a creative explosion within all aspects of the performing arts. Its fluid style of presentation allowed an almost open-ended remit, enabling it to cover subjects as diverse as cinema, music, dance, photography, writing – and much more besides. At a time when television was being criticised for dumbing down, Tempo – more than any other series – showed that ITV could indeed go highbrow whilst still remaining populist – a philosophy and outlook that was to continue into the 1970s and beyond with its successors Aquarius and The South Bank Show.

The Best Seasons of Tempo

The Best Seasons of Tempo

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7