Flick Flack (1974)
Flick Flack was a Canadian television series broadcast by Global Television Network in 1974. The series featured interviews with motion picture industry personalities combined with excerpts from films. William Shatner was the regular series host. "It was a TV show produced for Canadian TV. A handful of shows that aired every fortnight for a few months in the 70’s." @WilliamShatner · Sep 15, 2020
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Episode 1 - Premiere
Release Date: 1974-01-07Some of the great Animal Stars are featured. Host William Shatner meets with some of the people who, with skill and love, coach the animals for their parts.
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Episode 2 - The Canadians
Release Date: 1974-01-14Host William Shatner examines the film industry in Canada.
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Episode 3 - Anne Bancroft & Mel Brooks.
Release Date: 1974-01-18An interview with Oscar-winning actress Anne Bancroft and her husband writer-director Mel Brooks, the talented Oscar-winning writer and director of "The Producers" and "Twelve Chairs".
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Episode 4 - Clint Eastwood
Release Date: 1974-01-25Violence on the motion picture screen is discussed by the World's biggest box office draw Clint Eastwood.
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Episode 5 - "White Dawn" / "Doc Savage" / Joel Grey
Release Date: 1974-02-02Three aspects of filmmaking are examined. The birth of a production is shown, through scenes from "White Dawn" being shot in Baffin Island. Also featured is the worldwide talent search for an actor to star in a new film -"Doc Savage". Academy award-winning actor Joel Grey talks about his role in "Cabaret" and claims, "the harder I work, the luckier I get".
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Episode 6 - Above the Line
Release Date: 1974-02-08Interviews with people involved in different aspects of movie-making. writer Garson Kanin, producer Martin Ransohoff, director John Frankenheimer and actor Richard Harris.
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Episode 7 - Pot Pourri of Movie Production
Release Date: 1974-02-15A montage of features about the film industry. Included scenes from the filming of "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" being made in Montreal.
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Episode 8 - Edith Head
Release Date: 1974-02-22Costume designer Edith Head winner of seven Oscars and twenty-five nominations, demonstrates with models, sketches and movie clips, the talent that has kept her at the top of her profession for over forty years.
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Episode 9 - Science Fiction
Release Date: 1974-03-01Host William Shatner traces 72 years of the history of Science Fiction films.
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Episode 10 - George Cukor / John Schlesinger
Release Date: 1974-03-08A talk with movie directors George Cukor and John Schlesinger.
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Episode 11 - Lloyd Bridges / Jeff and Beau Bridges
Release Date: 1974-03-22Interview with actor Lloyd Bridges and sons actors Jeff and Beau Bridges
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Episode 12 - Paramount Studios
Release Date: 1974-03-29Scenes from Serpico, The Godfather, The Great Gatsby and Love Story are featured in a look at the history of Paramount Studios in Hollywood from 1912 to 1974.
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Episode 13 - Jack Lemmon
Release Date: 1974-04-05Unique insight into the life of Jack Lemmon. His life and career are discussed, and clips are shown of many of his greatest performances. He talks to host William Shatner about his early days in Hollywood, and how he gradually reached the height of his career by winning an Oscar for "Mister Roberts". *Note: This was scheduled to be the first episode of the series but due to a dispute between United Artists and Global, the studio withdrew approval for Flick Flack's use of clips from "The Apartment" and "Some Like It Hot".
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Episode 14 - Special Effects
Release Date: 1974-04-12William Shatner deals with the creation of special effects for the movies. [14] Flick Flack [Final New Show]