Small World

Small World

Presents a filmed, intercontinental conversation that links moderator Edward R. Murrow in New York with three internationally known figures located in different parts of the world. What set this apart from other televised interview/discussion programs was the fact that its participants could not see each other but could hear one another via telephone lines and radio.

Talk

Seasons

1. Prime Minister Nehru of India, Aldous Huxley and Thomas Dewey

Air Date: 1958-10-12

Murrow conducts a chat with Prime Minister Nehru of India, Aldous Huxley, and Thomas Dewey

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

Air Date: 1958-10-19

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.

3. Lauren Bacall, Malcolm Muggeridge, Eric Johnston

Air Date: 1958-10-26

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.

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

Air Date: 1958-11-02

A discussion on education includes author Rebecca West in Buckinghamshire, England; Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover in Washington, D.C.; and Dr. Mark Van Doren in Cornwall, Connecticut.

5. Peter Ustinov, Sol Hurok, Governor Theodore McKeldin

Air Date: 1958-11-09

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.

6. James C. Hagerty, Jacques Soustelle, Malcolm Muggeridge

Air Date: 1958-11-16

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.

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

Air Date: 1958-11-23

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

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

Air Date: 1958-11-30

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.

9. Antoni Slonimski, Artur Rubenstein, Archibald MacLeish

Air Date: 1958-12-07

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.

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

Air Date: 1958-12-14

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

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

Air Date: 1958-12-21

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 Murrow discuss the U.S. Senate's controversial filibuster rule.

12. Vivien Leigh, Samuel Goldwyn, Kenneth Tynan

Air Date: 1958-12-28

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

13. Episode 13

Air Date: 1959-01-04

14. Episode 14

Air Date: 1959-01-11

15. Episode 15

Air Date: 1959-01-18

16. Episode 16

Air Date: 1959-01-25

17. Episode 17

Air Date: 1959-02-01

18. Episode 18

Air Date: 1959-02-08

19. Episode 19

Air Date: 1959-02-15

20. Episode 20

Air Date: 1959-02-22

21. Episode 21

Air Date: 1959-03-01

22. Episode 22

Air Date: 1959-03-08

23. Episode 23

Air Date: 1959-03-15

24. Humor in Theatre

Air Date: 1959-03-22

25. Episode 25

Air Date: 1959-03-29

26. Episode 26

Air Date: 1959-04-05

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 1959-10-11

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 1959-10-18

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 1959-11-01

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 1959-11-08

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 1959-11-15

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 1959-11-22

7. Episode 7

Air Date: 1959-11-29

8. Episode 8

Air Date: 1959-12-06

9. Episode 9

Air Date: 1959-12-20

10. Episode 10

Air Date: 1959-12-27

11. Episode 11

Air Date: 1960-01-03

12. Episode 12

Air Date: 1960-01-10

13. Episode 13

Air Date: 1960-01-17

14. Episode 14

Air Date: 1960-01-24

15. Episode 15

Air Date: 1960-01-31

16. Episode 16

Air Date: 1960-02-07

17. Episode 17

Air Date: 1960-02-14

18. Episode 18

Air Date: 1960-02-28

19. Episode 19

Air Date: 1960-03-06

20. Episode 20

Air Date: 1960-03-13

21. Episode 21

Air Date: 1960-03-20

22. Episode 22

Air Date: 1960-03-27

23. Episode 23

Air Date: 1960-04-03

24. Episode 24

Air Date: 1960-04-10

25. Episode 25

Air Date: 1960-04-17

26. Episode 26

Air Date: 1960-04-24

27. Episode 27

Air Date: 1960-05-01

28. Episode 28

Air Date: 1960-05-08

29. Episode 29

Air Date: 1960-05-15

30. Episode 30

Air Date: 1960-05-22

31. Episode 31

Air Date: 1960-05-29

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Rating

7.3/10

Release Date

1958-10-12

Episodes

1 (2 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

CBS Productions

CBS Productions

CBS

CBS