Small World Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Prime Minister Nehru of India, Aldous Huxley and Thomas Dewey

Sun, Oct 12, 1958

Ed Murrow conducts a chat with Prime Minister Nehru of India, Aldous Huxley and Thomas Dewey. The show is a blend of film, overseas radio and long-distance telephone talks.

Episode 2

Lord Bertrand Russell, Dr. Willard F. Libby, Dr. Homi J. Bhabha

Sun, Oct 19, 1958

Atomic energy as threat and promise are at the center of today's discussion. The guests are Bertrand Russell, philosopher and Nobel Prize author in London; Dr. Willard F. Libby of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, in Washington D.C.; Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India, in Paris. Lord Russell has been active in efforts to halt nuclear weapons. Edward R. Murrow moderates.

Episode 3

Lauren Bacall, Malcolm Muggeridge, Eric Johnston

Sun, Oct 26, 1958

Lauren Bacall, Malcolm Muggeridge, former editor of "Punch" a British humor magazine and Eric Johnston are the assembled raconteurs, and the first two help make this a most engaging session on this international fest. Miss Bacall, intelligent and humorous, discusses how good Hollywood films are as overseas ambassadors, and debates the question of female suffrage.

Episode 4

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Dr. Mark Van Doren, Rebecca West

Sun, Nov 2, 1958

This issue includes author Rebecca West in Buckinghamshire, England; Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover in Washington, D.C.; and Dr. Mark Van Doren in Cornwall, Connecticut. The topic is education.

Episode 5

Peter Ustinov, Sol Hurok, Governor Theodore McKeldin

Sun, Nov 9, 1958

Particularly amusing telephonic chat between actor Peter Ustinov, impresario Sol Hurok and Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin. This combative trio consider politics, culture and TV. Hurok and Ustinov both make good sense, with the latter being not only perceptive, but witty as he demolishes several ideas advanced by Governor McKeldin, who unintentionally proves Ustinov's contention that politicians, like the Russians, can be funny precisely because they have no sense of humor.

Episode 6

James C. Hagerty, Jacques Soustelle, Malcolm Muggeridge

Sun, Nov 16, 1958

Conversation is carried on by Presidential News Secretary James C. Hagerty; Jacques Soustelle, minister of information for the De Gaulle government, and Malcolm Muggeridge, former editor of Britain's Punch magazine. Speakers are in Washington, Paris and London, respectively. Edward R. Murrow guides the talk.

Episode 7

General Alfred M. Groenther, Aneturin Bevan, Franz Josef Strauss

Sun, Nov 23, 1958

General Alfred M. Groenther, Aneturin Bevan, British Labor Party leader and Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's defense minister, will discuss the defense of Middle and Western Europe.

Episode 8

President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Richard Clement Attlee

Sun, Nov 30, 1958

Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the United States, and Richard Clement Attlee, 40th prime minister of Great Britain, in intercontinental conversation with Edward R. Murrow. Mr. Truman is in Independence, Mo. Earl Attlee is in London.

Episode 9

Antoni Slonimski, Artur Rubenstein, Archibald MacLeish

Sun, Dec 7, 1958

Edward Murrow is joined in intercontinental conversation by Antoni Slonimski, Poland's poet laureate, Artur Rubenstein, world-famed Polish born pianist, and Archibald MacLeish, 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner. The guest speakers are in Warsaw, Paris and Washington, and the Warsaw visit is the show's first stop in a Communist country.

Episode 10

Dr. Milton Eisenhower, Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz-Marin, Dr. Galo Plaza

Sun, Dec 14, 1958

Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz-Marin and Dr. Galo Plaza, former president of Ecuador join Edward R. Murrow in an unrehearsed, intercontinental conversation about relations between the United States and its neighbor nations to the South.

Episode 11

James O. Sastland, Herb Block, Professor Denis W. Brogan

Sun, Dec 21, 1958

James O. Sastland, Herbert L. Block, syndicated editorial cartoonist of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, and Denis W. Brogan, professor of political science at Cambridge, and moderator Edward R. Murrow discuss the U.S. Senate's controversial filibuster rule.

Episode 12

Vivien Leigh, Samuel Goldwyn, Kenneth Tynan

Sun, Dec 28, 1958

Actress Vivien Leigh, movie producer Samuel Goldwyn and New York drama critic Kenneth Tynan join Edward R. Murrow in a filmed conversation.

Episode 13

Episode #1.13

Sun, Jan 4, 1959

Episode 14

Episode #1.14

Sun, Jan 11, 1959

Episode 15

Episode #1.15

Sun, Jan 18, 1959

Episode 16

Episode #1.16

Sun, Jan 25, 1959

Episode 17

Part I

Sun, Feb 1, 1959

Episode 18

Part II

Sun, Feb 8, 1959

Episode 19

Episode #1.19

Sun, Feb 15, 1959

Episode 20

Episode #1.20

Sun, Feb 22, 1959

Episode 21

Episode #1.21

Sun, Mar 1, 1959

Episode 22

Episode #1.22

Sun, Mar 8, 1959

Episode 23

Episode #1.23

Sun, Mar 15, 1959

Episode 24

Humor in Theatre

Sun, Mar 22, 1959

Episode 25

Episode #1.25

Sun, Mar 29, 1959

Episode 26

Episode #1.26

Sun, Apr 5, 1959