12x1 - The Art of Walt Disney

September 25, 1988

12x2 - Bernard Shaw

October 2, 1988

12x3 - Under Milk Wood

October 9, 1988

12x4 - Toulouse-Lautrec

October 16, 1988

12x5 - David Puttnam

October 23, 1988

12x6 - David Hockney

October 30, 1988

12x7 - Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks)

November 13, 1988

12x8 - Bristol WWII bombing raids reenactment

November 20, 1988

12x9 - Raymond Chandler

November 27, 1988

12x10 - Neil Jordan

December 4, 1988

12x11 - John Houseman

December 11, 1988

12x12 - David Bailey

December 18, 1988

12x13 - Derek Walcott

January 15, 1989

12x14 - Patrick Leigh Fermor

January 22, 1989

12x15 - National Training Orchestra

January 29, 1989

12x16 - Christopher Hampton

February 5, 1989

12x17 - Istvan Szabo

February 12, 1989

12x18 - Robert Redford

February 19, 1989

12x19 - Tony Palmer on the concerto

February 26, 1989

12x20 - Ben Elton

March 5, 1989

12x21 - John Burnett

March 10, 1989

A special 3 minute parody episode made for Comic Relief. Melvin interviews painter John Burnett.

12x22 - Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music)

March 12, 1989

12x23 - John Ogdon

March 19, 1989

12x24 - Sir William Golding

March 24, 1989