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Firing Line is an American public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley Jr.

This is a list of episodes that aired originally from 1966 to 1969.[1]

Episodes

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Season 1 (1966)

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No.
overall 		No. in
season 		Title Guest Taping date
1 1 "Poverty: Hopeful or Hopeless?" Michael Harrington April 4, 1966
2 2 "Prayer in the Public Schools" James Pike April 6, 1966
3 3 "Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate?" Norman Thomas April 8, 1966
4 4 "Capital Punishment" Steve Allen April 11, 1966
5 5 "Where Does the Civil-Rights Movement Go Now?" James Farmer April 18, 1966
6 6 "Should the House Committee on Un-American Activities Be Abolished?" John Henry Faulk April 21, 1966
7 7 "The Prevailing Bias" David Susskind May 2, 1966
8 8 "The New Frontier: The Great Society" Richard N. Goodwin May 6, 1966
9 9 "Civil Disobedience: How Far Can It Go?" Dick Gregory May 16, 1966
10 10 "McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future" Leo Cherne May 16, 1966
11 11 "Vietnam: What Next?" Staughton Lynd May 23, 1966
12 12 "The Future of States' Rights" Harry Golden May 23, 1966
13 13 "The Future of the Republican Party" Clare Boothe Luce May 26, 1966
14 14 "The Future of the American Theater" David Merrick June 6, 1966
15 15 "Bobby Kennedy and Other Mixed Blessings" Murray Kempton June 6, 1966
16 16 "The Future of Conservatism" Barry Goldwater June 9, 1966
17 17 "Public Power vs. Private Power" Albert Gore Sr. June 9, 1966
18 18 "Communists and Civil Liberties" Joseph L. Rauh Jr. June 10, 1966
19 19 "The Role of the Church Militant" William Sloane Coffin June 27, 1966
20 20 "Why Are the Students Unhappy?" Theodore Bikel June 27, 1966
21 21 "Senator Dodd and General Klein" Thomas J. Dodd August 22, 1966
22 22 "Extremism" Dore Schary August 22, 1966
23 23 "Civil Rights and Foreign Policy" Floyd McKissick August 22, 1966
24 24 "The President and the Press" Pierre Salinger September 12, 1966
25 25 "Are Public Schools Necessary?" Paul Goodman September 12, 1966
26 26 "The Playboy Philosophy" Hugh Hefner September 12, 1966
27 27 "Do Liberals Make Good Republicans?" John Chafee September 15, 1966
28 28 "Should Labor Power Be Reduced?" Victor Riesel September 19, 1966
29 29 "Communist China and the United Nations" Max Lerner September 19, 1966
30 30 "National Priorities and Disarmament" Seymour Melman October 3, 1966
31 31 "LBJ and Evans and Novak" Rowland Evans October 3, 1966
32 32 "Civilian Review Board: Yes or No?" Theodore W. Kheel October 7, 1966
33 33 "Criminals and the Supreme Court" Aryeh Neier November 7, 1966
34 34 "Open Housing" John A. Morsell November 7, 1966
35 35 "The Failure of Organized Religion" Paul Weiss November 14, 1966
36 36 "What to Do with the American Teenager?" Murray the K November 14, 1966
37 37 "Elections 1966 and 1968" Robert Novak November 21, 1966
38 38 "Sports, Persecution, and Christians" Arnold Lunn November 28, 1966
39 39 "The Warren Report: Fact or Fiction?" Mark Lane December 1, 1966

Season 2 (1967)

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No.
overall 		No. in
season 		Title Guest(s) Taping date
40 1 "Rhodesia, the UN, and Southern Africa" Conor Cruise O'Brien January 12, 1967
41 2 "LBJ and the Intellectuals" Hans Morgenthau January 12, 1967
42 3 "Academic Freedom and Berkeley" Harold Taylor January 16, 1967
43 4 "Presidential Politics" F. Clifton White January 16, 1967
44 5 "The Role of the Advocate" F. Lee Bailey January 19, 1967
45 6 "The Future of the UN" Francis T. P. Plimpton January 19, 1967
46 7 "Do the States Have a Chance?" Jesse M. Unruh March 6, 1967
47 8 "LBJ and Vietnam"
March 6, 1967
48 9 "Politics and the President" Tom Wicker March 7, 1967
49 10 "Black Power" Nat Hentoff March 7, 1967
50 11 "Is There a Role for a Third Party?" Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. March 8, 1967
51 12 "U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia" Clayton Fritchey March 8, 1967
52 13 "Do We Have Anything Left to Fear from Socialism?" Sidney Hook March 9, 1967
53 14 "The World of LSD" Timothy Leary April 10, 1967
54 15 "Censorship and the Production Code" Otto Preminger April 10, 1967
55 16 "The Regular in Politics" Carmine DeSapio May 1, 1967
56 17 "How to Protest" Dwight Macdonald May 1, 1967
57 18 "The Liberals and LBJ" John P. Roche May 15, 1967
58 19 "The Poverty Problem" Joseph S. Clark Jr. May 15, 1967
59 20 "Is Ramparts Magazine Un-American?" Robert Scheer June 26, 1967
60 21 "Vietnam Protests" Benjamin Spock June 26, 1967
61 22 "The Mideast Crisis" Alfred Lilienthal June 29, 1967
62 23 "The Decline of Anti-Communism [1967]" Fred Schwarz June 29, 1967
63 24 "Is It Possible to Be a Good Governor? [1967]" Ronald Reagan July 6, 1967
64 25 "Is the World Funny?" Groucho Marx July 7, 1967
65 26 "Vietnam" Robert Vaughn July 8, 1967
66 27 "The Ghetto" Kenneth B. Clark August 28, 1967
67 28 "Municipal Government" Sam Yorty August 28, 1967
68 29 "A Foreign Policy for the GOP" Charles H. Percy September 11, 1967
69 30 "The Future of the GOP" Richard Nixon September 14, 1967
70 31 "Vietnam and the GOP" Thruston Ballard Morton September 25, 1967
71 32 "Medicare" Wilbur J. Cohen September 25, 1967
72 33 "Is There a New God?" John Robinson October 6, 1967
73 34 "The English Conservatives" Peregrine Worsthorne October 6, 1967
74 35 "The Union in Modern Society" Clive Jenkins October 7, 1967
75 36 "Is Socialism the Answer?" Michael Foot October 7, 1967
76 37 "War Crimes" Ralph Schoenman November 13, 1967
77 38 "The Struggle for Democracy in Brazil" Carlos Lacerda November 13, 1967
78 39 "Do We Need Public Schools?" Ernest van den Haag December 11, 1967
79 40 "Mobilizing the Poor" Saul Alinsky December 11, 1967
80 41 "Is There a Need for Intelligence?" Allen Dulles December 14, 1967
81 42 "Was Goldwater a Mistake?" Mark Hatfield December 14, 1967

Season 3 (1968)

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No.
overall 		No. in
season 		Title Guest(s) Taping date
82 1 "The John Birch Society" Slobodan M. Draskovich January 8, 1968
83 2 "The Economic Crisis" Milton Friedman January 8, 1968
84 3 "Was the Civil-Rights Crusade a Mistake?" Godfrey Cambridge January 15, 1968
85 4 "Student Power" Robert Theobald January 15, 1968
86 5 "The Ghost of the Army-McCarthy Hearings: Part I"
January 19, 1968
87 6 "The Ghost of the Army-McCarthy Hearings: Part II"
  • James D. St. Clair
  • Roy Cohn
  • Leo Cherne
  • Emile de Antonio
 January 19, 1968
88 7 "The Wallace Crusade" George Wallace January 24, 1968
89 8 "Wiretapping--Electronic Bugging" Edward V. Long January 24, 1968
90 9 "Philby and Treason" Rebecca West February 26, 1968
91 10 "The Culture of the Left" Malcolm Muggeridge February 26, 1968
92 11 "The Anti-Communist Left" Melvin J. Lasky February 27, 1968
93 12 "English Youth and Vietnam"
  • Ian Martin
  • Hilary Sears
  • Gerry Johnson
  • Bob Mathews
 February 27, 1968
94 13 "Robert F. Kennedy" Hodding Carter April 15, 1968
95 14 "The Wallace Movement" Leander Perez April 15, 1968
96 15 "The New Left" David Dellinger April 25, 1968
97 16 "The Middle East [1968]" Freda Utley April 25, 1968
98 17 "Can We Win in Vietnam?" Herman Kahn May 7, 1968
99 18 "The Avant Garde" Allen Ginsberg May 7, 1968
100 19 "Governing the Cities" Carl Stokes May 24, 1968
101 20 "The Republicans and the Cities" Seth Taft May 24, 1968
102 21 "Armies of the Night" Norman Mailer May 28, 1968
103 22 "Journals of News and Opinion" Otto Fuerbringer May 28, 1968
104 23 "Unrest on the Campus"
  • Allan Boles
  • Roger Rapoport
  • Joel Kramer
 June 20, 1968
105 24 "Violence" Fredric Wertham June 20, 1968
106 25 "The Rib Uncaged: Women and the Church"
June 24, 1968
107 26 "Obscenity and the Supreme Court"
June 24, 1968
108 27 "Has the Republican Party Anything to Offer?" Gerald Ford July 8, 1968
109 28 "The Washington Press"
July 8, 1968
110 29 "Liberalism and the Intellectuals" Marya Mannes July 10, 1968
111 30 "The Socialist Workers' Party and American Politics"
July 10, 1968
112 31 "Capital Punishment" Truman Capote September 3, 1968
113 32 "The Hippies"
September 3, 1968
114 33 "Money Troubles"
September 9, 1968
115 34 "The McCarthy Phenomenon" Allard K. Lowenstein September 9, 1968
116 35 "The Cold War" Zbigniew Brzezinski September 23, 1968
117 36 "Some Problems of the Freshman Senator" Charles Goodell September 23, 1968
118 37 "Korean War Defectors"
  • Morris Wills
  • Richard Tenneson
  • Virginia Pasley
 October 7, 1968
119 38 "Politics and Show Biz" Orson Bean October 7, 1968
120 39 "Why Do So Many Canadians Hate America?"
October 21, 1968
121 40 "Is South Africa Everybody's Business?"
November 4, 1968
122 41 "The Influence of TV on American Politics"
November 4, 1968
123 42 "Cracking the Cities' Problem" Joseph Alioto November 13, 1968
124 43 "The Black Panthers" Eldridge Cleaver November 13, 1968
125 44 "Jerusalem and the Middle East" Teddy Kollek November 18, 1968
126 45 "The Republic of New Africa" Milton Henry November 18, 1968
127 46 "Does Science Emerge Supreme?" Christiaan Barnard December 9, 1968
128 47 "The American Challenge"
December 9, 1968
129 48 "The Uses of Animals"
December 12, 1968
130 49 "Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement" Muhammad Ali December 12, 1968

Season 4 (1969)

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No.
overall 		No. in
season 		Title Guest(s) Taping date
131 1 "The Issues in the School Strike" Albert Shanker January 6, 1969
132 2 "The Plight of the American Novelist"
January 6, 1969
133 3 "The Walker Report"
January 13, 1969
134 4 "The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson" Eric F. Goldman January 13, 1969
135 5 "How Goes It with the Poverty Program?"
January 27, 1969
136 6 "The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy"
January 27, 1969
137 7 "The Ripon Society"
February 24, 1969
138 8 "The Fifth Amendment"
  • Harold J. Rothwax
  • C. Dickerman Williams
 February 24, 1969
139 9 "Black Anti-Semitism"
February 25, 1969
140 10 "Restructuring the University"
February 25, 1969
141 11 "Police Power"
  • John J. Heffernan
  • Paul G. Chevigny
 February 26, 1969
142 12 "Black Student Power"
  • John Felder
  • David Swedan
  • John R. Coyne
 February 26, 1969
143 13 "Vietnam and the Intellectuals" Noam Chomsky April 3, 1969
144 14 "Urban Development and the Race Question" Roy Innis April 3, 1969
145 15 "Modernism in the Catholic Church"
April 21, 1969
146 16 "The Campus Destroyers" Al Capp April 21, 1969
147 17 "The ABM Conflict"
April 28, 1969
148 18 "Problems of a Chief Executive"
April 28, 1969
149 19 "Cornell and the Conflict of Generations"
May 19, 1969
150 20 "The Trouble with Enoch" Enoch Powell May 19, 1969
151 21 "ABM"
June 2, 1969
152 22 "Afro-American Studies"
June 2, 1969
153 23 "The Decline of Christianity" Billy Graham June 12, 1969
154 24 "Labor Unions and American Freedom" James B. Carey June 12, 1969
155 25 "Violence in America"
June 23, 1969
156 26 "The Population Explosion"
  • Colin Clark
  • Alan Sweezy
 June 23, 1969
157 27 "Marijuana--How Harmful?"
  • Robert Baird
  • David E. Smith
 July 7, 1969
158 28 "The Conservative Party and the Future of the GOP" J. Daniel Mahoney July 7, 1969
159 29 "The Irish Problem"
July 22, 1969
160 30 "The Decline of Anti-Communism [1969]" Constantine Fitzgibbon July 22, 1969
161 31 "Monarchy and the Modern World" Otto von Habsburg July 23, 1969
162 32 "The UN and World Affairs" Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon July 23, 1969
163 33 "Is There a Place for the Old Order?"
July 24, 1969
164 34 "American Popularity Abroad" Anthony Lewis July 24, 1969
165 35 "Post Office Reform" Winton M. Blount September 9, 1969
166 36 "Where Should the Nixon Administration Go?" Barry Goldwater September 9, 1969
167 37 "Biafra and English Foreign Policy" Auberon Waugh September 22, 1969
168 38 "Looking Back on de Gaulle" Jacques Soustelle September 22, 1969
169 39 "The Making of the President 1968" Theodore H. White September 22, 1969
170 40 "The Welfare-Reform Proposal" Daniel Patrick Moynihan October 7, 1969
171 41 "Race and Conservatism"
October 7, 1969
172 42 "Conservative vs. Progressive Republicanism" Jacob K. Javits October 24, 1969
173 43 "Abortion"
October 24, 1969
174 44 "What Have We Learned from Socialism?" Gunnar Myrdal November 4, 1969
175 45 "Salvation, Rock Music, and the New Iconoclasm"
November 4, 1969
176 46 "The Selling of the President 1968" Joe McGinniss November 10, 1969
177 47 "Negotiating for Peace"
November 10, 1969
178 48 "Vietnam" Harlan Cleveland December 6, 1969
179 49 "Reflections on the Current Scene" Clare Boothe Luce December 6, 1969
180 50 "The Future of the Democratic Party" Pat Brown December 9, 1969
181 51 "Why Don't Conservatives Understand?"
December 9, 1969
182 52 "Tariffs"
December 18, 1969
183 53 "The Kennedy Years" John Kenneth Galbraith December 18, 1969

References

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  1. ^ "Register of the Firing Line (Television Program) broadcast records". Online Archive of California. California Digital Library. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
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