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19 Episodes 1973 - 1973
Episode 1
Sun, Jan 7, 1973
Should marijuana smokers be free from criminal prosecution? Host William F. Buckley talks with anthropologist John Greenway, who is against and Dr. Thomas E. Bryant of the Drug Abuse Council in Washington, D.D.
Episode 2
Sun, Jan 14, 1973
A critic of the Catholic Church, Gary Wills, is the guest. He is the author of "Bare, Ruined Choirs - Doubt, Prophecy and Radical Religion."
Episode 3
Sun, Jan 28, 1973
The guest is former White House adviser Daniel Moynihan and the topic is his Family Assistance Plan, vetoed by Congress in 1970.
Episode 4
Sun, Feb 4, 1973
Host William F. Buckley is interviewed by a panel of newsmen, focusing on political challenges to conservatives in 1973. Reporters include Richard Reeves, New York Magazine and Mary Perot Nichols, the Village Voice.
Episode 5
Sun, Feb 11, 1973
Guest Huey P. Newton explains to Buckley that he is not a doctrinaire Marxist and attempts to engage Buckley in a debate over political theory. Newton discusses the expulsion of Eldridge Cleaver from the Black Panther Party due to Cleaver's excessive militancy and, later, the internal politics of China.
Episode 6
Sun, Feb 18, 1973
Should local TV stations be responsibe for network news content? The proposal has been voiced by White House adviser Clay T. Whitehead, who talks with series host (and station owner) William F. Buckley Jr.
Episode 7
Sun, Feb 25, 1973
Texas politics is the topic of host William F. Buckley Jr. and his guests: Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, unsuccessful candidate for governor last fall; Ronnie Dugger, former editor of the Texas Observer; and Beryl Mil-burn, active in the state's Republican Party. Liberal reform and party unity are discussed.
Episode 8
Sun, Mar 4, 1973
America's image abroad is the topic with guest, Frank Shakespeare, former director of the United States Information Agency. Shakespeare's policy called for the inclusion of books by conservative authors in USIA libraries abroad.
Episode 9
Sun, Mar 11, 1973
Terrorism and civil war in Northern Ireland: is there any end in sight? William F. Buckley Jr's guest is Lord Terence O'Neill, who was Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1963-69. Topics include the presence of British troops.
Episode 10
Sun, Mar 18, 1973
Free medical care and compulsory insurance benefits are the advantages enjoyed by the average English worker. Yet almost 40 per cent of his income goes to taxes. Host William F. Buckley Jr. discusses England's "welfare state" with Shirley Williams, a member of the Labor Party's "shadow cabinet" and an economics expert.
Episode 11
Sun, Mar 25, 1973
Fans of "Tom Brown's Schooldays" will appreciate this show on English corporal punishment. In London's primary schools, sparing the rod is now a law-and a point of dispute between William F. Buckley Jr.'s guests: Charles Kuper, a headmaster in favor of caning, and Peter Newell, an educator and author.
Episode 12
Sun, Apr 1, 1973
Last December, feminist Germaine Greer ("The Female Eunuch"') and host William F. Buckley Jr. debated the issue of women's lib before a group of Cambridge University students, who declared Greer the winner. Now the two adversaries continue their argument over the feminist movement in a second bout.
Episode 13
Sun, Apr 8, 1973
Why is Federal aid to education being cut back? William F. Buckley Jr.'s guest is Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who defends the Administration's elimination of low-interest student loans, funds for ghetto school districts, libraries and community educational programs.
Episode 14
Sun, Apr 15, 1973
In this Battle of the Feminists episode, conservative Phyllis Schlafly and liberal Ann London Scott debate the consequences of passing the Equal Rights Amendment. Schlafly was the National Chairman of the STOP ERA campaign, while Scott was Vice President for Legislation for the National Organization for Women. Schlafly insists the ERA will subject women to the draft and impact custody cases. Scott asserts such criticisms are misleading. Scott died of breast cancer two years after this episode.
Episode 15
Mon, Apr 23, 1973
Welfare reform is the topic of Georgia governor Jimmy Carter. He's reduced the welfare rolls in his state, prosecuted cheaters and dispensed birth control information to welfare mothers. Host William F. Buckley Jr. probes Carter's criticism of Administration plans to cut back poverty programs (a policy he terms "benevolent conservatism."
Episode 34
Fri, Sep 14, 1973
Should draft evaders and deserters be granted total amnesty? That's the question debated by host William F. Buckley Jr. and guest Henry Schwarzschild, director of the ACLU's Project on Amnesty. Schwarzschild believes the Government should drop all charges.
Episode 37
Tue, Oct 16, 1973
Episode 38
Wed, Oct 17, 1973
Episode 44
Sun, Dec 23, 1973
In commemoration of the Christmas season, the ways different cultures have adapted the image of Christ are discussed by Dr. Malachi Martin and host William F. Buckley Jr. Dr. Martin, a religious scholar and former Jesuit priest, is the author of "Jesus Now," a look at the character and function of Christ in the modern world. Also discussed is the need for spiritual belief.