The Dick Cavett Show Season 9 Episodes

Episode 4

Walter Cronkite

Thu, Oct 17, 197490 mins

Dick Cavett interviews Walter Cronkite at Cronkite's home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. "Viewers rarely recall and relish a Cronkite statement. They believe it instead", is how one critic described the newsman's delivery. Cronkite discusses how he prepares for his news show and offers his opinions on Watergate; what he sees as attempts to suppress the media.

Episode 5

Dick Van Dyke

Thu, Nov 14, 197490 mins

Episode 7

David Bowie, Roy Dotrice

Thu, Dec 5, 197427 mins

David Bowie performed "1984" and "Young Americans." This was followed by an interview with Dick Cavett and then David Bowie performed "Footstompin'." The other number - "Can You Hear Me" - was not televised. Roy Dotrice presents portions of his one-man show "Brief Lives" in which he portrays 17th century diarist John Aubrey.

Episode 8

Gore Vidal, Jean Marsh, Rabbi Baruch Korff

Thu, Dec 12, 197490 mins

Gore Vidal talks about "Myron", Vidal's sequel to "Myra Breckenridge". Jean Marsh, a co-creator and cast member of the EMMY winning series "Upstairs, Downstairs" and Rabbi Baruch Korff, a defender of former President Richard Nixon.

Episode 9

George Meany

Thu, Dec 19, 197490 mins

George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO and author of "Your Money and Where Did It Go?", discusses the spiraling economy.

Episode 10

Lily Tomlin, Richie Havens

Thu, Dec 26, 197490 mins

Comedienne Lily Tomlin and singer Richie Havens join Dick Cavett in this show taped at the University of Maryland. Lily does a spoof of sorority girls of the 1950's.

Episode 11

Lotte Lenya, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore

Wed, Jan 1, 197590 mins

Singer Lotte Lenya, famed for her interpretations of the songs of her late husband composer Kurt Weill, joins Dick Cavett in singing "Bilbao-Song".