Filmed in Europe, the short-lived series included episodes with Welles visiting Jean Cocteau and Juliette Gréco in Paris, attending a bullfight in Madrid with Kenneth Tynan and a trip to the Basque Country.
Network, which released the DVD “Orson Welles Great Mysteries Volume 1” in the United Kingdom last year, will release the second and final volume on October 26. Produced by Anglia Television, the 25-minute long episodes were originally broadcast by Britain’s ITV between September 1973 and February 1974. Thirteen episodes were featured on the first volume and the remaining 13 shows are contained on Volume 2.
By RAY KELLY Orson Welles was the consummate talk show guest, whether he was bantering with Johnny Carson, telling stories to Dinah Shore or performing sleight of hand before Merv Griffin. In the late 1970s — after routinely be called in to guest host for Merv or Johnny — Welles considered hosting his own series. […]
When man first walked on the moon, the three major U.S. television networks provided extensive coverage of the historic Apollo 11 mission with star-studded broadcasts. As part of the “entertainment fill,” ABC brought in acclaimed writers Rod Serling and Isaac Asimov for their thoughts, while NBC turned to author Michael Crichton and poet Rod McKuen. […]
Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries Volume 1, released on DVD in Germany two years ago, will be issued in the United Kingdom next month by Network. While the German DVD set from Pidax Film Media featured 10 episodes of the British anthology television series, the forthcoming Network collection will offer 13 of the 26 episodes hosted […]
The two-DVD set includes 10 of the series’ 26 episodes.
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Orson Welles was tapped to play miserly “Old Man” Potter, the role originated by Lionel Barrymore in the Capra classic.
The pilot has been lost.
As a young actor, he appeared in Orson Welles’ unfinished 1969 CBS television project “Orson’s Bag.”
Robert Kroll is at work on a book on Welles’ commercials.
It is available in the U.S. through b2mp.net
She was the wife of director Peter Brook.
The event run Feb. 7-8 and Feb. 14-15.
It was first broadcast on November 29, 1972.
The events will take place in January and February.
MPI Home Video will release the collection on Nov. 4.
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Updated 4.2.15: B2MP hopes to release the set later this year. _________ By RAY KELLY The list of Orson Welles films coming to Blu-ray keeps getting better and better. The California-based B2MP Inc. will release all six episodes of Around the World with Orson Welles, which he wrote and directed for Britain’s ITV channel in […]
By LAWRENCE FRENCH Orson Welles appearance on The David Frost Show recorded on May 12, 1970 came before most of the numerous biographies about Welles had been published, providing us with Welles’ own point of view on some very interesting aspects of his life and work. This interview also took place in the midst of […]
