Around the World with Orson Welles: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries
Oct 7, 1955
Welles takes the viewer to the Basque countryside, a remote corner of Europe on the border of Spain and France. He interviews American expatriates and a Basque sheepherder who retu
Pays Basque II: La Pelote Basque
Oct 21, 1955
Welles continues his tour of the Basque region of France and Spain and learns about the game of pelota and some of its variants — jai alai, joko garbi, and rebot.
Revisiting Vienna
Nov 4, 1955
Welles revisits Vienna, the setting of one of his most famous films, and one of his greatest performances as the unforgettable Harry Lime in Carol Reed's The Third Man.
Saint-Germain-des-Pres
Nov 18, 1955
Welles travels to Paris, where his visit to the Saint Germain des Pres neighborhood is chronicled by newspaper columnist Art Buchwald. Welles interviews an artist, poets inventing
London: The Queen's Pensioners
Dec 2, 1955
Welles travels to London to visit an alms house in Hackney for indigent widows created in the 1600s and an old soldier's Chelsea home.
Spain: The Bullfight
Dec 16, 1955
Welles and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Tynan travel to Madrid to explain the nuts and bolts of bullfighting.
France: The Tragedy of Lurs
Apr 12, 2003
The Dominici affair is a criminal case that occurred in France in the mid-20th century, which gave rise to detailed counter-investigations, emblematic of investigative journalism.