Clive James Documentaries

  • Premiered: Mar 1982
  • Episodes: 13
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • ITV1
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  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
Live in Las Vegas
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 07, 1982
Clive James offers a fascinating and humorous view of one of the great gambling cities of the world - Las Vegas. The sharp witted presenter also meets a selection of the rich and famous that inhabit the desert oasis.
1x2
Meets Roman Polanski
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 07, 1984
A special programme, filmed in Paris, in which the Polish-born film director of "Rosemary's Baby", "Chinatown" and "Tess" talks openly for the first time about his extraordinary life and .. show full overview
1x3
Meets Katherine Hepburn
Episode overview
Air date
May 06, 1985
A remarkable interview with one of cinema's legends, Katherine Hepburn. Long known for her reluctance to discuss her private life, she talks at length to Clive James in her New York home .. show full overview
1x4
In Dallas
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 08, 1985
Intrepid Aussie investigator Clive James sets out to find the real goings-on in the American city of Dallas. During his time in the city of mirrors, Clive visits a reverend who presides .. show full overview
1x5
On Safari
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 05, 1986
It's 30 years since legendary author Ernest Hemingway went on his last safari and in this special programme Clive James follows in his wheel tracks accompanied by Hemingway's original .. show full overview
1x7
And the Heroes of San Francisco
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 03, 1987
American football is an up-market, billion dollar business. The teams are run like movie studios, they are awash with talent and glamour and no team has more glamour than the San .. show full overview
1x8
In Japan Part 1
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 10, 1987
Clive James finally travels to Japan and finds out for himself what it's like to participate in the kind of crazy game show he has observed for so long. Clive discovers what the Japanese .. show full overview
1x9
In Japan Part 2
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 17, 1987
Clive's culture shock worsens as he continues his journey through Japan. He's almost flattened by a 35-stone Sumo wrestler and travels to the health spa of Beppu to be voluntarily buried .. show full overview
1x6
At the Playboy Mansion
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 02, 1987
It fell to television's most unlikely playboy, Clive James, to seek out the man who started the sexual revolution nearly forty years ago: Hugh M. Hefner, founder of the Playboy empire. .. show full overview
1x10
Racing Driver
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 03, 1988
When Clive James was invited by the Australian Grand Prix organisers to take part in their celebrity challenge it was a dream come true. There was just one small problem ... he couldn't .. show full overview
1x11
in Buenos Aires
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 04, 1995
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1x11
Clive James goes Country
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 11, 1995
Clive James visits Nashville Tennessee. In spite of the fact that he has no musical talent, with the help of such luminaries as Tammy Wynette, Mark Knoplfer and Chet Atkins, he makes a record.
1x12 Show finale
Meets Damon Hill
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 24, 1997
Clive James follows racing driver Damon Hill for two weeks during his battle for the Formula One world champion title in the summer of 1996.

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