Sex and the Silver Screen

  • Rank #
  • Premiered: Sep 1996
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • Paramount+ with Showtime
  • Friday at 22
  • Documentary History

Seasons:

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Season 1
1x1
Going All the Way
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 27, 1996
Archival material examines the depiction of sexual themes in films.
1x2
Look Ma, No Clothes
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 04, 1996
Hollywood challenges the production codes; ratings emerge.
1x3
Hollywood Comes of Age
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 11, 1996
Sex symbols and art films open the door to explicit sex.
1x4
Censored
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 18, 1996
The Hays Office set the content standards in Hollywood's Golden Age.
1x5
The Temptations of Eve
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 25, 1996
The double entendres of early talkies roused calls for censorship.
1x6 Show finale
Sex and the Silent Screen
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 01, 1996
The silent era ended with the establishment of the Hays office.

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