Draft:List of Parkinson episodes

Parkinson was a British chat show, hosted by Michael Parkinson. It was first broadcast on BBC One between 1971 & 1982, but was revived by the BBC in 1998. In 2004 the show moved to ITV1, where it remained until Parkinson announced his retirement in 2007. The final regular episode was broadcast on 17 November 2007, with a final episode, featuring clips and interviews from across the shows run, airing on the 22 December. A total of 540 episodes were broadcast over 36 years.

Series overview

Original series

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
BBC
1	19 June 1971	19 December 1971	23
2	3 June 1972	24 March 1973	38
3	8 September 1973	22 January 1974	23
4	28 August 1974	25 December 1974	18
5	30 August 1975	14 February 1976	24
6	4 September 1976	7 April 1977	25
7	3 September 1977	2 January 1978	18
8	2 September 1978	10 February 1979	24
9	22 September 1979	15 March 1980	49
10	6 September 1980	7 March 1981	45
11	3 October 1981	3 April 1982	27
ITV
12	28 March 1987	16 May 1987	8
13	28 May 1988	23 July 1988	8
BBC1
14	9 January 1998	5 December 1998	11
15	8 January 1999	17 December 1999	15
16	21 January 2000	7 April 2000	12
17	8 September 2000	12 November 2000	10
18	17 February 2001	21 April 2001	10
19	22 September 2001	24 December 2001	10
20	23 February 2002	18 May 2002	10
21	21 September 2002	24 December 2002	10
22	23 February 2003	3 May 2003	9
23	20 September 2003	29 November 2003	10
24	21 February 2004	24 April 2004	10
ITV1
25	4 September 2004	25 December 2004	11
26	12 February 2005	9 April 2005	9
27	8 October 2005	24 December 2005	11
28	4 March 2006	22 April 2006	8
29	16 September 2006	23 December 2006	13
30	5 May 2007	23 June 2007	7
31	15 September 2007	17 November 2007	9

Specials

Date	Entitle
26 December 1977	Parkinson and the Comedians
10 April 1982	10 Years of Parkinson
23 June 2006	The Best of Parkinson
24 November 2007	The Music Special
16 December 2007	The Final Conversation
22 December 2007	The Final Show
28 August 2021	Parkinson at 50

Episodes

Series 1 (1971)

The original recordings of the first 12 episodes were wiped following transmission and are considered lost. As of 2023, only a 16mm B&W film print of episode 12 (TX: 04/09/1971), and a colour reel of Parkinson's interview with John Lennon & Yoko Ono (TX: 17/07/1971) are known to exist. Jazz singer Marion Montgomery was a regular guest during this series.

No. overall	No. in series	Guests	Original air date
1	1	Arthur Ashe, Marion Montgomery, Terry-Thomas and Pentangle	19 June 1971 (1971-06-19)
2	2	Marion Montgomery, Pierre Salinger and Shelley Winters	26 June 1971 (1971-06-26)
3	3	Art Buchwald, Peter Finch, Marion Montgomery and Polly Toynbee	3 July 1971 (1971-07-03)
4	4	Marion Montgomery and Peter Ustinov	10 July 1971 (1971-07-10)
5	5	Benny Goodman, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Humphrey Lyttelton, George Melly, and Marion Montgomery	17 July 1971 (1971-07-17)
6	6	George Best, Michael Caine and Marion Montgomery	24 July 1971 (1971-07-24)
7	7	Marian Montgomery, Denis Norden, Rod Steiger and Kenneth Tynan	31 July 1971 (1971-07-31)
8	8	Marion Montgomery and Orson Welles	7 August 1971 (1971-08-07)
9	9	Spike Milligan, Marion Montgomery, Robert Shaw and Ringo Starr	14 August 1971 (1971-08-14)
10	10	Trevor Howard, Marion Montgomery, Harold Pinter and Fred Trueman	21 August 1971 (1971-08-21)
11	11	Marion Montgomery, Claire Rayner and Jimmy Savile	28 August 1971 (1971-08-28)
12	12	Shirley MacLaine, Marion Montgomery and the Ranee of Sarawak	4 September 1971 (1971-09-04)
13	13	George Axelrod, Dirk Bogarde and Nina van Pallandt	10 October 1971 (1971-10-10)
14	14	Muhammad Ali	17 October 1971 (1971-10-17)
15	15	Marion Montgomery, Robert Morley, Arthur Mullard and Chief Red Fox	24 October 1971 (1971-10-24)
16	16	Lord George-Brown, Peter Fonda, and Jacques Loussier	31 October 1971 (1971-10-31)
17	17	Blaster Bates, Henry Higgins, Don McCullin and Jackie Stewart	7 November 1971 (1971-11-07)
18	18	John Arlott, Mel Calman and Jacques Tati	14 November 1971 (1971-11-14)
19	19	James Cameron, Lyn Cornell, Kay Garner, Barbara Kay, and Ralph McTell	21 November 1971 (1971-11-21)
20	20	Sarah Miles, The Peddlers and Gwyn Thomas	28 November 1971 (1971-11-28)
21	21	Frankie Howerd, Marion Montgomery and Ralph Richardson	5 December 1971 (1971-12-05)
22	22	Charlton Heston	12 December 1971 (1971-12-12)
23	23	Chan Canasta, Stéphane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin	19 December 1971 (1971-12-19)

Series 2 (1972-73)

All episodes from this series survive, with the exception of Episode 6 (TX: 08/07/1972).

No. overall	No. in series	Guests	Original air date
24	1	Jack Charlton, Blossom Dearie, Jimmy Reid and Peter Ustinov	3 June 1972 (1972-06-03)
25	2	Fanny Cradock, Bernard Manning, A. J. P. Taylor and The Tony Mansell Singers	10 June 1972 (1972-06-10)
26	3	Yul Brynner	17 June 1972 (1972-06-17)
27	4	Peter O'Toole	24 June 1972 (1972-06-24)
28	5	Tony Curtis, Patrick Moore and Vivien Neves	1 July 1972 (1972-07-01)
29	6	Dick Cavett, Jonathan Miller, Bobby Rosengarden and Jackie Stewart	8 July 1972 (1972-07-08)
30	7	Benny Green, Johnny Mercer and Andy Williams	15 July 1972 (1972-07-15)
31	8	Shirley Temple	22 July 1972 (1972-07-22)
32	9	Danny Blanchflower, Ben Lyon and Vincent Price	29 July 1972 (1972-07-29)
33	10	Fenella Fielding, James Mason and Albert Modley	5 August 1972 (1972-08-05)
34	11	Edith Evans, Deborah Kerr and Annie Ross	12 August 1972 (1972-08-12)
35	12	Robert Mitchum and Harry Pitch	19 August 1972 (1972-08-19)
36	13	Malcolm Muggeridge	23 September 1972 (1972-09-23)
37	14	Victor Borge, Chris Finnegan and Ralph McTell	30 September 1972 (1972-09-30)
38	15	W. H. Auden, John Gielgud and Cleo Laine	7 October 1972 (1972-10-07)
39	16	David Niven	14 October 1972 (1972-10-14)
40	17	Kenneth Allsop, Lauren Bacall, Tom Paxton and Danny Thompson	21 October 1972 (1972-10-21)
41	18	Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, The Ray Ellington Quartet, Alf Costa and Jay Neill	28 October 1972 (1972-10-28)
42	19	Diana Rigg, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Gore Vidal	4 November 1972 (1972-11-04)
43	20	Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise, Janet Webb and Raquel Welch	11 November 1972 (1972-11-11)
44	21	Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller	18 November 1972 (1972-11-18)
45	22	Jack Lemmon	25 November 1972 (1972-11-25)
46	23	Patrick Campbell, Frank Muir, Kenneth Williams and The Peddlers	2 December 1972 (1972-12-02)
47	24	Petula Clark, Michel Legrand and George Melly	9 December 1972 (1972-12-09)
48	25	Alistair Cooke and Peter Ustinov	16 December 1972 (1972-12-16)
49	26	Bing Crosby and Donald Hunt	23 December 1972 (1972-12-23)
50	27	Blossom Dearie, Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques Tati	6 January 1973 (1973-01-06)
51	28	Harold Evans, Juliette Gréco and Spike Milligan	13 January 1973 (1973-01-13)
52	29	Georgia Brown, Geraint Evans and Clive Jenkins	20 January 1973 (1973-01-20)
53	30	Ernest Borgnine, Jimmy Edwards, Shusha Guppy and Eric Sykes	27 January 1973 (1973-01-27)
54	31	Richard Harris	3 February 1973 (1973-02-03)
55	32	Claire Bloom, Robert Helpmann and Eartha Kitt	10 February 1973 (1973-02-10)
56	33	George Best, John Betjeman, Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams	17 February 1973 (1973-02-17)
57	34	Duke Ellington	24 February 1973 (1973-02-24)
58	35	Isobel Barnett, Oliver Reed, Mickey & Sherri Spillane and The Jacques Loussier Trio	3 March 1973 (1973-03-03)
59	36	Rhodes Boyson, Jimmy Reid and Kenneth Williams	10 March 1973 (1973-03-10)
60	37	Gloria Stuart and James Stewart	17 March 1973 (1973-03-17)
61	38	Robin Day, Marion Montgomery, Jeremy Thorpe and Robert Vaughn	24 March 1973 (1973-03-24)

Series 3 (1973-74)

As with Series 2, all episodes survive, with the exception of Episode 4 (TX: 29/09/1973).

No. overall	No. in series	Guests	Original air date
62	1	Al Capps, Elliott Gould, and Donald Sutherland	8 September 1973 (1973-09-08)
63	2	Georges Carpentier, Jack Dempsey, Lord Shinwell and Johnny Speight	15 September 1973 (1973-09-15)
64	3	Ingrid Bergman and Joel Grey	22 September 1973 (1973-09-22)
65	4	Emlyn Williams	29 September 1973 (1973-09-29)
66	5	Vic Feather, Artur Rubinstein and Mike Yarwood	6 October 1973 (1973-10-06)
67	6	The Earl of Arran, Michel Legrand, Max Wall and Mike Yarwood	13 October 1973 (1973-10-13)
68	7	Brian Clough, Marcel Marceau and The Peddlers	20 October 1973 (1973-10-20)
69	8	Beryl Reid and Buddy Rich	27 October 1973 (1973-10-27)
70	9	Jacob Bronowski, Matt Busby and James Coburn	3 November 1973 (1973-11-03)
71	10	Johnny Morris, Jackie & Helen Stewart and Miquel Brown	10 November 1973 (1973-11-10)
72	11	Orson Welles	17 November 1973 (1973-11-17)
73	12	Eric Morcambe & Ernie Wise, Glenda Jackson and Marjorie Wallace	24 November 1973 (1973-11-24)
74	13	Michael Crawford and Liberace	1 December 1973 (1973-12-01)
75	14	Phil Silvers	8 December 1973 (1973-12-08)
76	15	Andy Williams and The Ken Thorne Orchestra	15 December 1973 (1973-12-15)
77	16	Bing Crosby	22 December 1973 (1973-12-22)
78	17	Jack Benny	29 December 1973 (1973-12-29)
79	18	Dick Cavett, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier	25 January 1974 (1974-01-25)
80	19	John Wayne	1 February 1974 (1974-02-01)
81	20	Jacob Bronowski	8 February 1974 (1974-02-08)
82	21	Andrew Cruickshank, David Frost and Alan Price	15 February 1974 (1974-02-15)
83	22	Robert Morley	22 February 1974 (1974-02-22)
84	23	Ted Moult, Labi Siffre and Jack Warner	23 February 1974 (1974-02-23)

Series 4 (1974-75)

No. overall	No. in series	Guests	Original air date
Special	1	"Best of Previous Guests"	24 August 1974 (1974-08-24)
85	2	Edna O'Brien, Hughie Green, and Charles Aznavour	31 August 1974 (1974-08-31)
86	3	Sammy Cahn, Ethel Merman, and Roger Moore	7 September 1974 (1974-09-07)
87	4	Michael Caine, Helen Hayes, and Soraya	14 September 1974 (1974-09-14)
88	5	Dave Allen, Dee Brown and Otto Preminger	21 September 1974 (1974-09-21)
89	6	Lyall Watson, Telly Savalas, and Gina Lollobrigida	28 September 1974 (1974-09-28)
90	7	Julie Andrews, and Blake Edwards	5 October 1974 (1974-10-05)
91	8	Harry Secombe, Harold Robbins and Anita Loos	12 October 1974 (1974-10-12)
92	9	Henry Cooper, Lawrence Durrell and Terry-Thomas	19 October 1974 (1974-10-19)
93	10	Glynis Johns, Nanette Newman, Bryan Forbes, and Dame Flora MacLeod	26 October 1974 (1974-10-26)
94	11	Patrick Moore, Oscar Peterson, and Ronnie Barker	2 November 1974 (1974-11-02)
95	12	Peter Sellers	9 November 1974 (1974-11-09)
96	13	Nettie Bainbridge, Eva Rueber-Staier, Twiggy, and Les Dawson	16 November 1974 (1974-11-16)
97	14	Richard Burton	23 November 1974 (1974-11-23)
98	15	Muhammad Ali	7 December 1974 (1974-12-07)
99	16	Dickie Henderson, Henry Mancini, and Louis Mordish	14 December 1974 (1974-12-14)
100	17	Magnus Pyke and Andy Williams	21 December 1974 (1974-12-21)
101	18	Leslie Thomas, Charles Aznavour, and Pat Phoenix	4 January 1975 (1975-01-04)
102	19	Rachel Roberts, Helene Hayman, and Alicia Markova	11 January 1975 (1975-01-11)
103	20	Barbara Kelly, Emlyn Williams, and Stéphane Grappelli	18 January 1975 (1975-01-18)
104	21	Sammy Cahn and Dick Leonard	25 January 1975 (1975-01-25)
105	22	Monty Modlyn, Jimmy Logan, and Annie Ross	1 February 1975 (1975-02-01)
106	23	Helen Mirren, Mai Zetterling, and Lord Boothby	8 February 1975 (1975-02-08)
107	24	Billy Connolly and Humphrey Lyttelton	15 February 1975 (1975-02-15)
108	25	Sheila Hancock, David Hemmings, and The King's Singers	22 February 1975 (1975-02-22)
109	26	Larry Adler and Tessie O'Shea	1 March 1975 (1975-03-01)
110	27	Dustin Hoffman	8 March 1975 (1975-03-08)