Firing Line was an American public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley, Jr., founder and publisher of National Review magazine. Its 1,504 episodes over 33 years made Firing Line the longest-running public affairs show in television history with a single host. The erudite program, which featured many of the most prominent intellectuals and public figures in the United States, won an Emmy Award in 1969.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Prayer in the Public Schools | 1966-04-06 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate? | 1966-04-08 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Capital Punishment | 1966-04-11 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | The Prevailing Bias | 1966-05-02 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | The New Frontier: The Great Society | 1966-05-06 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future | 1966-05-16 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Vietnam: What Next? | 1966-05-23 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | The Future of States' Rights | 1966-05-23 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | The Future of the American Theater | 1966-06-06 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | Bobby Kennedy and Other Mixed Blessings | 1966-06-06 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | The Future of Conservatism | 1966-06-09 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | The Role of the Church Militant | 1966-06-27 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | Why Are the Students Unhappy? | 1966-06-27 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | Senator Dodd and General Klein | 1966-08-22 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | Extremism | 1966-08-22 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | Civil Rights and Foreign Policy | 1966-08-22 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | The President and the Press | 1966-09-12 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | Are Public Schools Necessary? | 1966-09-12 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | The Playboy Philosophy | 1966-09-12 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 28 | Should Labor Power Be Reduced? | 1966-09-19 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 32 | Civilian Review Board: Yes or No? | 1966-10-07 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 35 | The Failure of Organized Religion | 1966-11-14 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 38 | Sports, Persecution, and Christians | 1966-11-28 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 39 | The Warren Report: Fact or Fiction? | 1966-12-01 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 41 | LBJ and the Intellectuals | 1967-01-12 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 42 | Academic Freedom and Berkeley | 1967-01-16 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | The Role of the Advocate | 1967-01-19 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | The Future of the UN | 1967-01-19 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | LBJ and Vietnam | 1967-03-06 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Politics and the President | 1967-03-07 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Black Power | 1967-03-07 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | Is There a Role for a Third Party? | 1967-03-08 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 14 | The World of LSD | 1967-04-10 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 15 | Censorship and the Production Code | 1967-04-10 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 16 | The Regular in Politics | 1967-05-01 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 17 | How to Protest | 1967-05-01 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 21 | Vietnam Protests | 1967-06-26 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 23 | The Decline of Anti-Communism | 1967-06-29 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 24 | Is It Possible to Be a Good Governor? | 1967-07-06 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 25 | Is the World Funny? | 1967-07-07 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 26 | Vietnam | 1967-07-08 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 29 | A Foreign Policy for the GOP | 1967-09-11 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 30 | The Future of the GOP | 1967-09-14 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 32 | Medicare | 1967-09-25 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 38 | The Struggle for Democracy in Brazil | 1967-11-13 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 40 | Mobilizing the Poor | 1967-12-11 | 120 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 42 | Was Goldwater a Mistake? | 1967-12-14 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | The Economic Crisis | 1968-01-08 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Was the Civil-Rights Crusade a Mistake? | 1968-01-15 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | The Wallace Crusade | 1968-01-24 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Wiretapping--Electronic Bugging | 1968-01-24 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Philby and Treason | 1968-02-26 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | The Culture of the Left | 1968-02-26 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 14 | The Wallace Movement | 1968-04-15 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 18 | The Avant Garde | 1968-05-07 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 21 | Armies of the Night | 1968-05-28 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 31 | Capital Punishment | 1968-09-03 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 32 | The Hippies | 1968-09-03 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 41 | The Influence of TV on American Politics | 1968-09-03 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 43 | The Black Panthers | 1968-11-13 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 45 | The Republic of New Africa | 1968-11-18 | 120 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 49 | Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement | 1968-12-12 | 120 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | The Plight of the American Novelist | 1969-01-06 | 120 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | The Ripon Society | 1968-02-24 | 120 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | Restructuring the University | 1969-02-25 | 120 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 13 | Vietnam and the Intellectuals | 1969-04-03 | 120 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 16 | The Campus Destroyers | 1969-04-21 | 120 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 20 | The Trouble with Enoch | 1969-05-19 | 120 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 23 | The Decline of Christianity | 1969-06-12 | 120 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 24 | Labor Unions and American Freedom | 1969-06-12 | 120 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 29 | Reflections on the Current Scene | 1969-12-06 | 120 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 38 | The Mylai Massacre | 1970-01-15 | 120 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | The Idea of The Great Ideas | 1970-03-13 | 120 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 31 | How Does It Look for the Dollar? | 1970-09-03 | 120 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 38 | Africa and Colonialism | 1970-10-20 | 120 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 46 | Radical Chic | 1970-12-17 | 120 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 47 | Vietnamization | 1970-12-17 | 120 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | Dump Nixon? | 1971-05-26 | 120 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | Separation of Church and State | 1971-04-22 | 120 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | The Lawyer's Role | 1971-06-24 | 120 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | War Crimes Part I | 1971-07-07 | 120 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 10 | Is It Possible to Be a Good Governor? | 1971-07-15 | 120 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 13 | The Problems of a Conservative Legislator | 1971-07-15 | 120 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 19 | Is America Hospitable to the Negro? | 1971-10-02 | 120 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 21 | The Case Against Freedom | 1971-10-02 | 120 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 25 | The Place of the Treaty in International Affairs | 1971-11-02 | 120 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 29 | The Edgar Smith Story: Part I | 1971-12-06 | 120 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 30 | The Edgar Smith Story: Part II | 1971-12-06 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | Vietnamization | 1972-01-12 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | Vietnam: Looking Back | 1972-01-17 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 8 | The Meaning of China | 1972-02-29 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 10 | The Irish Problem | 1972-03-25 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 12 | The Greek Dilemma | 1972-04-20 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 19 | Richard Nixon and Young Conservatives | 1972-06-16 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 27 | Abortion Laws: Pro and Con | 1972-07-25 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 31 | Sex Education | 1972-10-02 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 32 | Hate America | 1972-10-03 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 40 | The Southern Imagination | 1972-12-12 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 41 | The Young | 1972-12-21 | 120 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 42 | A Conservative Look at Marijuana | 1972-12-21 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 4 | What are the Challenges for Conservatives in 1973? | 1973-01-10 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 7 | Texas Politics | 1973-01-23 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 8 | How Does It Go with the Black Movement? | 1973-01-23 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 13 | Corporal Punishment | 1973-02-27 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 16 | The Equal Rights Amendment | 1973-03-30 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 17 | Proposals for Welfare | 1973-04-23 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 18 | What to Do About the Post Office? | 1973-04-23 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 19 | The Implications of Watergate | 1973-05-16 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 26 | Is There an Ecological Crisis? | 1973-05-01 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 28 | What Now for the Ghetto? | 1973-07-24 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 29 | World Federalism Today | 1973-07-30 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 30 | Russian Jewry and American Foreign Policy | 1973-07-30 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 34 | Has America Had It? | 1973-08-20 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 35 | The Energy Crisis and Energy Policy | 1973-09-13 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 36 | Amnesty | 1973-09-13 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 38 | The Nixon Presidency | 1973-09-28 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 39 | The Mechanism of Moral Development | 1973-10-16 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 40 | Heredity, IQ, and Social Issues | 1973-10-16 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 42 | The Middle East Explosion and American Detente | 1973-11-12 | 120 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 46 | The Jesus Movement | 1973-12-07 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 2 | The Revisionist Historians | 1974-01-23 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 5 | The British Crisis | 1974-02-12 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 6 | Enoch Powell and the British Crisis | 1974-02-13 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 7 | Tax Reform | 1974-01-21 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 8 | Politics and Black Progress | 1974-01-23 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 11 | The Question of South Africa | 1974-03-13 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 12 | The Question of Rhodesia | 1974-03-15 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 13 | The Republican Party and Mr. Nixon | 1974-05-03 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 14 | The Blackmailing of the President | 1974-05-10 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 15 | Where Do We Go from Here in the Middle East? | 1974-05-15 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 16 | Should the United States Disarm? | 1974-05-10 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 19 | Amnesty | 1974-06-03 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 20 | Government and the Arts | 1974-06-03 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 21 | The Future of the GOP | 1974-06-28 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 23 | The Limits of Journalistic Investigation | 1974-07-09 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 24 | Shockley's Thesis | 1974-06-10 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 26 | Public Medicine | 1974-06-10 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 29 | The Political Responsibility of Artists | 1974-06-28 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 31 | The Nixon Experience and American Conservatism | 1974-09-04 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 33 | Chile and the CIA | 1974-09-20 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 35 | The Economy | 1974-09-20 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 41 | Democratic Culture | 1974-11-15 | 120 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 42 | Jews and American Politics | 1974-12-02 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 8 | The Intellectual's Responsibilities in a Totalitarian Age | 1975-02-05 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 9 | William F. Buckley Jr., Malcolm Muggeridge, and the World | 1975-02-05 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 10 | Integrity and Journalism | 1975-03-10 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 13 | Feminism | 1975-03-31 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 15 | Who Killed Bobby Kennedy? | 1975-04-11 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 24 | The Ozone Controversy | 1975-07-09 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 25 | Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word | 1975-07-09 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 32 | The Politics of Henry Kissinger | 1975-09-10 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 33 | The British Mess | 1975-09-14 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 35 | How the Vietnam War Was Lost | 1975-09-10 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 36 | The Practical Limits of Liberalism | 1975-10-03 | 120 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 37 | Is Our Military Defense Adequate? | 1975-10-09 | 120 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 6 | The Uses of the United Nations | 1976-01-26 | 120 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 8 | The Future of Spain | 1976-02-23 | 120 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 18 | Is There Any Soviet Justice? | 1976-05-06 | 120 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 24 | Who's More Electable: Ford or Reagan? | 1976-07-15 | 120 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 31 | Should Books like Little Black Sambo Be on Library Shelves? | 1976-08-26 | 120 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 33 | Subversion and the Law | 1976-09-20 | 120 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 45 | Deep Throat and the First Amendment | 1976-12-13 | 120 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 46 | The Death Penalty | 1976-12-13 | 120 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 47 | Ten Years of Firing Line (1966-1976): Part I | 1976-12-13 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 6 | Borges South America's Titan | 1977-02-01 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 7 | Terror in Latin America | 1977-02-01 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 9 | Should the U.S. Pressure Argentina? | 1977-01-31 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 12 | Is There a Solution for Rhodesia? | 1977-03-09 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 20 | What's Happening in South Africa? | 1977-05-12 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 23 | What's Up with Eurocommunism? | 1977-06-27 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 26 | Human Rights in the USSR | 1977-07-25 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 27 | What Have We Learned from the Failure of British Socialism? | 1977-07-25 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 32 | The Problem of the Illegals | 1977-09-14 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 39 | Is There a Case for Private Property? | 1977-11-07 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 41 | Ferdinand Marcos: A Discussion | 1977-11-17 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 1 | Debate: Resolved That the Senate Should Ratify the Proposed Panama Canal Treaties | 1978-01-13 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 2 | G. Gordon Liddy: An Enigma | 1978-01-11 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 4 | Exclusive Conversation with Chiang Ching-kuo | 1977-11-12 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 7 | Is Soviet Policy an Extension of Russian Policy? | 1978-01-30 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 8 | The Role of Liberals in the Republican Party | 1978-03-16 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 11 | The Guilt of Alger Hiss | 1978-03-21 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 12 | Debate: Resolved That the Price of Oil and Natural Gas Should Be Regulated by the Federal Government | 1978-03-30 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 20 | The Crisis of Intelligence | 1978-05-31 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 27 | The Rhodesian Dilemma | 1978-07-21 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 28 | Muggeridge Revisited | 1978-06-27 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 32 | Three vs. William F. Buckley Jr. | 1978-07-21 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 35 | The Mission of the Pope | 1978-09-06 | 120 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 44 | What Should Our China Policy Be? | 1978-12-12 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 7 | NATO and European Security | 1979-02-12 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 8 | Reason and Politics | 1979-02-12 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 14 | The Rising Tide of Islam | 1979-03-16 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 17 | The Crisis of Nuclear Energy | 1979-05-04 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 22 | Real Music | 1979-06-08 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 23 | Lifting the Trade Ban on Rhodesia | 1979-06-15 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 30 | The Television Machine | 1979-06-29 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 34 | Human Rights in Vietnam | 1979-09-06 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 35 | SALT II and the U.S. Senate | 1979-09-20 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 36 | The Crisis in the U.S. Military | 1979-09-20 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 40 | Crime and Punishment: Gary Gilmore | 1979-10-11 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 41 | Can New York City Govern Itself? | 1979-10-30 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 42 | Is There a Role for the Private College? | 1979-10-20 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 45 | Debate: Resolved That the United States Should Refuse Recognition to the PLO, Part I | 1979-11-28 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 46 | Debate: Resolved That the United States Should Refuse Recognition to the PLO, Part II | 1979-11-28 | 120 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 48 | The Year That Was | 1979-12-13 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 2 | Presidential Hopeful: Ronald Reagan | 1980-01-14 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 3 | The United States in the 1980s--Foreign Affairs | 1980-01-17 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 4 | The United States in the 1980s--Domestic Affairs | 1980-01-17 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 7 | Government Bailout | 1980-02-14 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 15 | The Fight over Catholic Orthodoxy | 1980-04-22 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 16 | Allard Lowenstein on Firing Line: A Retrospective | 1980-04-22 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 25 | Is Camp David Falling Apart? | 1980-07-21 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 27 | What Happened at Madison Square Garden? | 1980-08-15 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 28 | Defense and the Democrats | 1980-08-15 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 29 | Have We Learned Anything about Gun Control? | 1980-07-21 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 31 | The Crisis in Labour | 1980-09-04 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 33 | How Does One Find Faith? | 1980-09-06 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 34 | Do We Need Religion or Religious Institution? | 1980-09-06 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 43 | How Should Ex-Communists Cooperate? | 1980-12-04 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 44 | Why Is Jazz Neglected? | 1980-12-09 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 1 | Are Ideology and the CIA Compatible? | 1981-01-05 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 2 | The Abscam Controversy | 1981-01-05 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 4 | Are We Menaced by Moral Majority? | 1981-01-22 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 13 | The Question of Gay Rights | 1981-03-25 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 20 | What to Do about Terrorism? | 1981-06-05 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 21 | John Kenneth Galbraith Looks Back | 1981-06-05 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 26 | Do We Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine? | 1981-07-15 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 29 | The Question of Namibia | 1981-07-17 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 31 | A Strategy for Cuba | 1981-07-15 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 32 | Does the Warren Report on the Kennedy Assassination Hold Up? | 1981-09-10 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 33 | How to Win Arguments | 1981-09-10 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 36 | Where Do We Go on Immigration? | 1981-10-01 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 37 | Is Modern Architecture Disastrous? | 1981-10-01 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 39 | Is There an Answer to Malthus? | 1981-10-15 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 40 | The Economic Lot of Minorities | 1981-11-12 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 41 | William F. Buckley Jr. on the Firing Line | 1981-11-12 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 44 | What Is There to Learn from the Killing of Dr. Tarnower? | 1981-12-03 | 120 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 45 | Why Are Our Intellectuals So Dumb? | 1981-12-03 | 120 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 5 | The Issues Involved in Local Control of Reading Matter | 1982-01-11 | 120 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 12 | The Libertarian Credo | 1982-04-02 | 120 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 30 | The Economy and the Blacks, Part I | 1982-07-13 | 120 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 31 | The Economy and the Blacks, Part II | 1982-07-13 | 120 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 35 | Debate: Resolved That the Feds Should Get Out of Higher Education, Part I | 1982-10-05 | 120 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 36 | Debate: Resolved That the Feds Should Get Out of Higher Education, Part II | 1982-10-05 | 120 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 38 | The Roosevelt Legacy | 1982-10-27 | 120 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 3 | Buckley's Turn to Explain Himself | 1983-01-24 | 120 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 7 | Confidence and Betrayal | 1983-02-22 | 120 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 11 | How to Speak, How to Listen | 1983-04-14 | 120 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 23 | Was Gandhi for Real? | 1983-06-09 | 120 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 30 | What Is Radio Free Europe Up To? | 1983-09-15 | 120 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 36 | The Economics and Politics of Race | 1983-11-03 | 120 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 4 | What's on Malcolm Muggeridge's Mind? | 1984-02-19 | 120 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 29 | The Election: A View from New York | 1984-08-31 | 120 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 36 | The Dalai Lama Looks Back | 1984-09-27 | 120 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 44 | Where Is the GOP Headed? | 1984-12-06 | 120 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 46 | Is There A Liberal Crack-Up? | 1984-12-11 | 120 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 18 | Psychiatry: New Explorations | 1985-05-22 | 120 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 25 | What Are Our Young Novelists Up To? | 1985-07-17 | 120 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 32 | Three Approaches to Terrorists | 1985-09-26 | 120 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 43 | What Does PEN Have to Offer? | 1985-12-02 | 120 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 2 | 1966-1986: World Leaders | 1986-01-14 | 120 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 4 | 1966-1986: A Potpourri of Persuaders | 1986-01-14 | 120 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 5 | Bill Buckley and Firing Line Get Roasted | 1986-01-14 | 120 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 14 | Debate: Resolved That We Should Move towards Privatization, Including the Schools, Part I | 1986-05-02 | 120 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 15 | Debate: Resolved That We Should Move towards Privatization, Including the Schools, Part II | 1986-05-02 | 120 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 20 | Terrorism Viewed from Abroad | 1986-05-30 | 120 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 33 | For Central America: A Radical Prescription | 1986-10-02 | 120 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 35 | The Textbook Controversy in Tennessee | 1986-10-10 | 120 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 40 | Human Rights, Foreign Policy, and Ronald Reagan | 1986-10-16 | 120 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 5 | Pull Out of NATO? | 1987-02-23 | 120 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 13 | Higher Education Has Failed Democracy | 1987-04-15 | 120 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 16 | Are We Getting Anywhere in the UN? | 1987-05-27 | 120 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 28 | The Implications of MacDonald v. McGinniss | 1987-09-18 | 120 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 36 | Three Young Latin Americans Wish to Be Heard | 1987-10-01 | 120 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 2 | Do Capitalists Go Too Far? | 1988-01-07 | 120 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 4 | The Libertarian Candidate | 1988-01-19 | 120 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 13 | Dirty Rock Lyrics | 1988-06-08 | 120 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 23 | Contra Aid | 1988-08-24 | 120 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 5 | Saint or Sinner: Junipero Serra | 1989-01-10 | 120 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 14 | Mother Teresa Talks with William F. Buckley Jr | 1989-06-02 | 120 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 18 | The Fight for Bach | 1989-06-07 | 120 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 30 | William F. Buckley Jr. Looks Back on Politics, Etc. | 1989-10-16 | 120 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 31 | William F. Buckley Jr. Looks Forward on Politics, Etc. | 1989-10-16 | 120 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 32 | President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan, Part I | 1989-11-17 | 120 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 2 | The Link between Attitude and Healing | 1990-01-22 | 120 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 12 | Is England Still Influencing America? | 1990-05-22 | 120 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 28 | Crime and Punishment | 1990-09-20 | 120 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 32 | Two Friends Talk, Part I | 1990-10-11 | 120 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 33 | Two Friends Talk, Part II | 1990-10-11 | 120 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 38 | What Do We Owe Our Country? | 1990-12-13 | 120 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 40 | New Insights on the Russian Revolution | 1990-12-13 | 120 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 7 | Remembering Malcolm Muggeridge | 1991-01-15 | 120 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 14 | Is There a Problem of Nuclear Waste Disposal? | 1991-06-04 | 120 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 23 | Is the Democratic Party Falling Apart in the South? | 1991-08-29 | 120 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 23 | Are Liberal Vulnerabilities Now Apparent? | 1992-09-16 | 120 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 25 | Why Are We in a Recession? | 1992-10-06 | 120 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 32 | What's Wrong with the Deficit?, Part I | 1992-12-08 | 120 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 33 | What's Wrong with the Deficit?, Part II | 1992-12-08 | 120 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 4 | Do We Need a Federal Community Property Act? | 1993-01-12 | 120 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 14 | An Approach to Illegitimacy | 1993-05-23 | 120 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 35 | The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order: New Voices, Part I | 1993-08-16 | 120 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 36 | The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order: New Voices, Part II | 1993-08-16 | 120 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 37 | The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order: New Voices, Part III | 1993-08-16 | 120 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 2 | Are Medical Costs Controllable? | 1994-01-26 | 120 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 29 | Mini-Series on Crime, Part III: Do We Need Prisons at All | 1994-10-04 | 120 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 30 | Mini-Series on Crime, Part IV: Realistic Insights into Crime and Punishment | 1994-10-04 | 120 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 21 | Have We Learned Anything about the Good Society? | 1996-07-11 | 120 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 3 | The Problems of Gay Life | 1997-01-23 | 120 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 8 | Is Newt Permanently Damaged? | 1997-03-20 | 120 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 13 | The Lucas Case and Private-Property Rights | 1997-04-29 | 120 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 33 | Is the Cyberworld a Threat? | 1997-10-14 | 120 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 34 | The Problems of Privacy | 1997-10-29 | 120 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 4 | Did Camelot Have a Dark Side? | 1998-01-13 | 120 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 8 | Do Economics and Morality Have Anything in Common? | 1998-04-07 | 120 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 29 | Goldwater Revisited | 1998-07-09 | 120 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 31 | Looking Back on Bosnia | 1998-07-09 | 120 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 35 | On Impeachability | 1998-09-18 | 120 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 44 | The GOP and the Hispanic Vote | 1998-12-03 | 120 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 1 | Is New York City Out from Under? | 1999-01-13 | 120 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 6 | Tom Wolfe and His Critics | 1999-01-19 | 120 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 8 | Legalize Pot? | 1999-01-12 | 120 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 14 | Kissinger's Years of Renewal | 1999-04-15 | 120 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 16 | Professor Galbraith Names Names | 1999-05-18 | 120 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 20 | Looking Back on Senator Joe McCarthy | 1999-06-29 | 120 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 31 | Philanthropy and the Conservative Movement | 1999-10-04 | 120 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 34 | The Conservative Search for a Foreign Policy | 1999-11-02 | 120 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 36 | The End of Firing Line, Part I | 1999-12-14 | 120 min |
