Show Details:
Start date: Nov 1975
End date: Aug? 1982
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): WTTW Chicago (US)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 152? eps
Genre(s): misc
End date: Aug? 1982
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): WTTW Chicago (US)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 152? eps
Genre(s): misc
Credits:
- Roger Ebert
- Gene Siskel
- Spot the Wonder Dog [ eps. 9?-108? ]
- Sparky the Wonder Dog [ eps. 109?-150]
- Zeke the Wonder Dog [ eps. 150-152 ]
Episode list & details:
Original Episode # Prod # Air Date Titles _____ ______ ___________ ___________ ___________________________________________ Specials 1975-1976 Opening Soon at a Theater Near You 1. S- 1 23 Nov 75 One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Self Service, Mr. Quilp, Conduct Unbecoming, Hearts of the West, Lisztomania, Mahogany 2. S- 2 1 Mar 76 Taxi Driver, The Man Who Would Be King, Hester Street, Manson, Adele H. 1st Series 1976 (broadcast under the Made in Chicago banner) 3. 1- 1 26 Oct 76 4. 1- 2 23 Nov 76 5. 1- 3 28 Dec 76 A Star is Born, King Kong, The Seven Percent Solution, The Enforcer, Network, Rocky, Nickelodeon, Silver Streak 6. 1- 4 25 Jan 77 Best and Worst of 1976 7. 1- 5 22 Feb 77 8. 1- 6 22 Mar 77 2nd Series 1977 Sneak Previews 9. 2- 1 22 Oct 77 10. 2- 2 26 Nov 77 11. 2- 3 17 Dec 77 12. 2- 4 27 Jan 78 The Goodbye Girl, Choirboys, The Gauntlet, Telefon, The World's Greatest Lover 13. 2- 5 24 Feb 78 High Anxiety, The Boys in Company C, Blue Collar, The One and Only, A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich 14. 2- 6 24 Mar 78 The Fury, House Calls, An Unmarried Woman, A Little Night Music, The Big Sleep 15. 2- 7 21 Apr 78 Coming Home, The Medusa Touch, Silver Bears, Rabbit Test 16. 2- 8 26 May 78 F.I.S.T., The Greek Tycoon, I Wanna Hold Your Hand 3rd Series 1978 17. 3- 1 10 Oct 78 The Boys from Brazil, Death on the Nile, Somebody Killed Her Husband, Interiors, A Wedding, Piranha, Up in Smoke 18. 3- 2 24 Oct 78 The Wiz, Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe 19. 3- 3 11 Nov 78 Paradise Alley, Magic 20. 3- 4 25 Nov 78 Going Coconuts, Slow Dancing in the Big City 21. 3- 5 9 Dec 78 The Lord of the Rings, Autumn Sonata 22. 3- 6 23 Dec 78 Superman, Oliver's Story, King of the Gypsies, Force 10 from Navarone, Moment by Moment 23. 3- 7 6 Jan 79 California Suite, Every Which Way But Loose, Invasion of the Body Snatchers 24. 3- 8 20 Jan 79 Best and Worst of 1979 25. 3- 9 3 Feb 79 Movie, Movie; Ice Castles; Same Time, Next Year 26. 3-10 17 Feb 79 The Brink's Job, Quintet, The Great Train Robbery 27. 3-11 10 Mar 79 Agatha, Norma Rae, The North Avenue Irregulars 28. 3-12 31 Mar 79 Academy Awards Special (Heaven Can Wait, Coming Home, The Deer Hunter, An Unmarried Woman, Midnight Express) 29. 3-13 14 Apr 79 Hair, The Champ, A Perfect Couple 30. 3-14 3 May 79 The Bell Jar, Hurricane, Dreamer 31. 3-15 26 May 79 Phantasm, Voices, Boulevard Nights 32. 3-16 9 Jun 79 Alien, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Promise 33. 3-17 23 Jun 79 Players, Butch and Sundance: The Early Years, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure 34. 3-18 7 Jul 79 Rocky II, Escape from Alcatraz, The Main Event 35. 3-19 21 Jul 79 Moonraker, Dracula, Nightwing 36. 3-20 4 Aug 79 Just You and Me Kid, Golden Girl, The Villian 37. 3-21 18 Aug 79 38. 3-22 1 Sep 79 Sunburn, Meatballs, Airport '79 39. 3-23 15 Sep 79 Unidentified Flying Oddball, La cage aux folles 4th Series 1979 40. 4- 1 4 Oct 79 Take 2: Midnight Movies 41. 4- 2 11 Oct 79 Apocalypse Now, Starting Over, 10 42. 4- 3 18 Oct 79 Take 2 43. 4- 4 25 Oct 79 And Justice for All, Luna, Meteor 44. 4- 5 1 Nov 79 Turning Points: Movies That Changed the Movies (Airport, Easy Rider, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Jaws, Vixen, Beyond and Back, Five Fingers of Death, Heaven Can Wait) 45. 4- 6 8 Nov 79 Yanks, Running 46. 4- 7 15 Nov 79 Take 2: Trends in the Movies 47. 4- 8 22 Nov 79 Love Affairs (An Unmarried Woman, The Main Event, The Other Side of the Mountain) 48. 4- 9 6 Dec 79 The Prize Fighter, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie 49. 4-10 20 Dec 79 Best Movies of the '70s: MASH, Annie Hall, Last Tango in Paris) 50. 4-11 3 Jan 80 Electric Horseman, All That Jazz, Black Hole 51. 4-12 17 Jan 80 Take 2 52. 4-13 31 Jan 80 HeartBeat, Windows, The Runner Stumbles 53. 4-14 7 Feb 80 Take 2: Great Performances That Oscar Ignored 54. 4-15 14 Feb 80 American Gigolo, The Fog, Being There 55. 4-16 28 Feb 80 Cruising, The Last Married Couple in America, Saturn 3 56. 4-17 6 Mar 80 Take 2: Going to the Movies: The Black Marble 57. 4-18 13 Mar 80 Coal Miner's Daughter, The Lady Vanishes, Leo & Loree, Night Games 58. 4-19 20 Mar 80 Take 2: Cult Films 59. 4-20 27 Mar 80 Oscar predictions 60. 4-21 3 Apr 80 Take 2: Movie Monsters 61. 4-22 10 Apr 80 The Black Stallion, Hide in Plain Sight 62. 4-23 24 Apr 80 Foxes, Nijinsky, Gilda Live 63. 4-24 1 May 80 Take 2: Who's Funnier: Mel Brooks or Woody Allen? 64. 4-25 8 May 80 ffolkes, Nothing Personal, Where the Buffalo Roam 65. 4-26 29 May 80 Overlooked Classics: Great Movies of the 70's That Nearly Everybody Missed 5th Series 1980 66. 5- 1 2 Oct 80 Middle Age Crazy; Those Lips, Those Eyes; Ordinary People; Willie & Phil 67. 5- 2 9 Oct 80 Stardust Memories, Somewhere in Time, Oh God! Book II, Coast to Coast 68. 5- 3 16 Oct 80 Private Benjamin, Gloria, Why Should I Lie? 69. 5- 4 23 Oct 80 Extreme Violence Directed at Women (retitled Women in Danger in 2011): When a Stranger Calls, The Boogieman, Silent Scream, Friday the 13th, I Spit on Your Grave, Halloween 70. 5- 5 30 Oct 80 The Elephant Man, Hopscotch, One Trick Pony 71. 5- 6 6 Nov 80 The Awakening, Motel Hell, Loving Couples 72. 5- 7 13 Nov 80 Changing Hollywood Sex Roles 73. 5- 8 20 Nov 80 The Idolmaker, Times Square, Song of the South 74. 5- 9 27 Nov 80 Borderline, Kagemusha 75. 5-10 4 Dec 80 If We Owned a Movie Theater 76. 5-11 11 Dec 80 Ordinary People, The Great Santini, One Trick Pony 77. 5-12 18 Dec 80 Flash Gordon, Stir Crazy, Popeye 78. 5-13 25 Dec 80 Nine to Five, Raging Bull 79. 5-14 1 Jan 81 The Jazz Singer, First Family 80. 5-15 8 Jan 81 Best of 1980 81. 5-16 15 Jan 81 Worst of 1980 82. 5-17 29 Jan 81 Best Films by Independent Filmmakers 83. 5-18 5 Feb 81 Altered States, The Mirror Crack'd 84. 5-19 12 Feb 81 Fort Apache, the Bronx; The Incredible Shrinking Woman 85. 5-20 19 Feb 81 Melvin and Howard, Dogs of War, The Competition 86. 5-21 26 Feb 81 Sunday Lovers 87. 5-22 5 Mar 81 Guilty Pleasures 88. 5-23 12 Mar 81 Tribute, American Pop, Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, La cage aux folles II 89. 5-24 19 Mar 81 90. 5-25 26 Mar 81 All Night Long, Back Roads 91. 5-26 9 Apr 81 The Thief, The Final Countdown 93. 5-28 23 Apr 81 The Life and Death of the Black Movie: (Stir Crazy, The Blues Brothers, Lillies of the Field, Shaft, Sounder, The Wiz) 94. 5-29 30 Apr 81 Nighthawks, Modern Romance, Caveman, Excalibur 95. 5-30 7 May 81 The Howling, Heaven's Gate, Windwalker 96. 5-31 14 May 81 Lion of the Desert, Death Hunt, Friday the 13th Part II 98. 5-33 28 May 81 Independent Filmmakers: Return of the Secaucus 7, Heartland, Gal Young Un, The Haunting of M 99. 5-34 4 Jun 81 The Four Seasons, Bustin' Loose, This is Elvis 100. 5-35 11 Jun 81 Take This Job and Shove It, Outland, The Legend of the Lone Ranger 101. 5-36 18 Jun 81 Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams; High Risk; I Sent a Letter to My Love; History of the World, Part 1 102. 5-37 25 Jun 81 Raiders of the Lost Ark, Clash of the Titans 103. 5-38 2 Jul 81 Superman II, The Cannonball Run 104. 5-39 9 Jul 81 For Your Eyes Only, The Great Muppet Caper 105. 5-40 16 Jul 81 More Guilty Pleasures: Massacre at Central High, Eraserhead, Invasion of the Bee Girls 106. 5-41 23 Jul 81 The Fox and the Hound, Gates of Heaven 107. 5-42 30 Jul 81 Endless Love, Arthur 108. 5-43 6 Aug 81 Blow Out, Tarzan the Ape Man, Wolfen 109. 5-44 13 Aug 81 Victory, Nobody's Perfekt 110. 5-45 27 Aug 81 Going to the Movies with Siskel & Ebert 6th Series 1981 111. 6- 1 1 Oct 81 Mommie Dearest, Only When I Laugh, Continental Divide 112. 6- 2 8 Oct 81 The French Lieutenant's Woman, Paternity, Prince of the City 113. 6- 3 15 Oct 81 True Confessions, Rich and Famous 114. 6- 4 22 Oct 81 Teenaged Audiences (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman II, Endless Love) 115. 6- 5 29 Oct 81 Raggedy Man, All the Marbles, Chariots of Fire 116. 6- 6 5 Nov 81 Looker, The Watcher in the Woods 117. 6- 7 12 Nov 81 Chanel, Halloween 2, Priest of Love 118. 6- 8 19 Nov 81 The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, Tattoo 119. 6- 9 26 Nov 81 120. 6-10 3 Dec 81 Buried Treasures: Gates of Heaven, Carny, The Onion Field 121. 6-11 10 Dec 81 Reds, My Dinner with Andre, Montenegro 122. 6-12 17 Dec 81 Buddy Buddy, Absence of Malice, Rollover 123. 6-13 24 Dec 81 Neighbors, Sharkey's Machine, Ghost Story 124. 6-14 31 Dec 81 Taps, Heartbeeps 125. 6-15 7 Jan 82 Best of 1981 (Ragtime, Atlantic City, Chariots of Fire, Prince in the City) 126. 6-16 14 Jan 82 The Dogs of 1981 (Buddy, Buddy; Hardly Working; Zorro, the Gay Blade; First Monday in October; Under the Rainbow; Chu Chu and the Philly Flash; The Fan; Halloween II; Cannonball Run; The Legend of the Lone Ranger; Charlie Chan and the Dragon Queen; Heaven's Gate) 128. 6-18 28 Jan 82 On Golden Pond, Whose Life Is It Anyway? Four Friends 129. 6-19 11 Feb 82 Venom, The Vice Squad, Zoot Suit 130. 6-20 18 Feb 82 Night Crossing, Making Love, Personal Best 131. 6-21 25 Feb 82 Shoot the Moon, Montenegro, One from the Heart 132. 6-22 4 Mar 82 The Seduction, I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can, Quest for Fire, The Amateur, Union City 133. 6-23 11 Mar 82 Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip, Missing 134. 6-24 18 Mar 82 Death Trap, Das Boot 135. 6-25 25 Mar 82 Academy Awards Special (Red, Ragtime, Arthur, Raiders of the Lost Ark, On Golden Pond) 136. 6-26 8 Apr 82 The Cat People, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Victor/Victoria, Blank Page 137. 6-27 15 Apr 82 A Little Sex, Penitentiary 2, Some Kind of Hero 138. 6-28 29 Apr 82 Swamp Thing, Death Wish II 139. 6-29 6 May 82 Partners, Diner, The Beast Within, The Sword and the Sorcerer 140. 6-30 13 May 82 Homosexuality in Movies (Making Love, Personal Best, Victor/Victoria) 141. 6-31 20 May 82 Conan the Barbarian, Wrong is Right 142. 6-32 27 May 82 Buried Treasures (Cattle Annie and Little Britches, Go Tell the Spartans, Over the Edge, Swamp Thing) 143. 6-33 3 Jun 82 Fingers, Gates of Heaven, The Onion Field 144. 6-34 10 Jun 82 Rocky III, Poltergeist 145. 6-35 17 Jun 82 Star Trek II, ET 146. 6-36 24 Jun 82 Annie; Author, Author; Firefox 147. 6-37 1 Jul 82 Megaforce, Blade Runner 148. 6-38 8 Jul 82 149. 6-39 15 Jul 82 150. 6-40 22 Jul 82 151. 6-41 29 Jul 82 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, An Officer and a Gentleman 152. 6-42 5 Aug 82
NOTES
This list contains only episodes with Siskel & Ebert.
This list contains only episodes with Siskel & Ebert.