Season 1972 1972

Featured on "The Dick Cavett Show" is a panel of award winning directors, Mel Brooks, Frank Capra, Robert Altman, and Peter Bogdanovich. Each discusses their unique style of filmmaking, the state of Hollywood, and their respective projects such as "The Producers," "It Happened One Night," "The Last Picture Show," and "M*A*S*H."

Host Dick Cavett welcomes guests baseball player Jackie Robinson and journalist George Plimpton.

Zero Mostel interrupts Dick Cavett's monologue to give advice, Diahann Carroll discusses criticisms of her television series, "Julia," and psychiatrist Dr. David Hubbard analyzes skyjackers.

Host Dick Cavett welcomes guests singer-actress Liza Minnelli, comedian Robert Klein, folksinger Pete Seeger and football player Gale Sayers.

Host Dick Cavett welcomes guest director John Huston.

Alexis Smith talks about Broadway and the Tony Awards, Gloria Swanson reveals why she left Hollywood, Elsa Lanchester demonstrates pantyhose and recites poetry, and Jeanette Rankin, the first woman to hold national office in the United States, discusses women rights. Dick Cavett also does magic tricks with the help of chroma key, a visual effect technique.

Host Dick Cavett welcomes guest actress Shirley MacLaine and musician-artists John Lennon & Yoko Ono. John sings "Woman Is The Nigger Of The World" and Yoko sings "We’re All Water" both with their band, Elephant's Memory.

Dick Cavett spends 90 minutes with legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock in a 1972 interview. Hitch discusses cinema, his life and career, and explains how he pulled off some "ingenious" special effects in his movies. He also discusses actors, screen violence and how he enjoys watching an audience "dipping their toe in the cold water of fear." Included are clips from his films "Psycho," "The Birds" & "Frenzy."

Dick Cavett demonstrates chroma key, a visual effects technique, William Holden talks about animal conservation and his film "The Revengers," Sammy Davis Jr. discusses the night club business and his guest appearance on "All in the Family," and Judith Crist criticizes the movie rating system.

Tommy Thompson teaches Dick Cavett to scuba dive, Art Carney shows off his false teeth and his suitcase of disguises, and Alexis Smith talks about her Broadway show, "Follies."

Musician Ray Charles performs and talks with Cavett. Actor Tony Randall and cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead also talk.

Dick Cavett explains chess, Catherine Mackin discusses being the first woman floor reporter at the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions, Arthur C. Clarke ponders science fiction and the ending of his work "2001: A Space Odyssey," and Rod Serling talks about "Night Gallery" and his film, "The Man."

Munich Olympians

Richard Attenborough talks about directing "Young Winston," the life of Winston Churchill, and getting Anne Bancroft to portray his mother. Then Charles Bronson discusses "The Valachi Papers" and working in the coal mines, Jill Ireland reveals how she met Bronson and doing an American accent, and Lana Cantrell talks about the music industry.

Susannah York talks about her film, "Images," Ralph Nader reveals whistle-blowing secrets, and Cesar Chavez discusses fasting and boycotts.