Orson Welles' Sketchbook

  • Premiered: Apr 1955
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • BBC One
  • Unknown
  • Talk show

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Season 1
1x1
The Early Days
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 24, 1955
Welles discusses a timely earthquake, first-night audiences at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, and how he came to be an actor.
1x2
Critics
Episode overview
Air date
May 08, 1955
Welles talks about a Boston performance of Five Kings, the consequences of Percy Hammond's negative review of the Voodoo Macbeth, and a curse placed on the film It's All True.
1x3
The Police
Episode overview
Air date
May 22, 1955
Welles relates the story of Isaac Woodard, a decorated black World War II veteran who was blinded in a brutal 1946 beating by South Carolina police.
1x4
Houdini/John Barrymore/Voodoo Story/The People I Missed
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 05, 1955
Prompts used by actors and others; remembering Harry Houdini; observations on gender differences in the appreciation of magic tricks; John Barrymore.
1x5
The War Of The Worlds
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 19, 1955
The famous 1938 Mercury Theatre broadcast mistaken by many listeners for a real Martian invasion, and the consequent skepticism during the presentation of Norman Corwin's Between .. show full overview
1x6 Show finale
Bullfighting
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 03, 1955
Welles tells the true story of Bonito the bull. Robert Flaherty's story was partially filmed in 1942 for Welles's unfinished film, It's All True.

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