Firing Line
Are Medical Costs Controllable?
TV Flash files “Are Medical Costs Controllable?” as the first listed hour of season 29 — Firing Line (1966–1999) on Syndicated/PBS, season 29, episode 2, aired 1994-01-26, 120 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S29E02: listed hour 303 of 326 in the Firing Line guide, first listed hour of season 29. It aired 1994-01-26 (120 min). The listed hour before it is “The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order: New Voices, Part III” (S28E37). Next is “Mini-Series on Crime, Part III: Do We Need Prisons at All” (S29E29).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Are Medical Costs Controllable? sit in the Firing Line guide?
S29E02 is listed hour 303 of 326 — first listed hour of season 29, season 29 episode 2.
When did Firing Line S29E02 air?
Are Medical Costs Controllable? aired 1994-01-26 and is listed at 120 minutes.
Where should I start?
A Buckley hour with a guest from across the aisle and room for full sentences is the contract. Clipboard, drawl, no countdown clock. Sample debates, not a serialized doctrine.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Firing Line is William F. Buckley Jr. turning argument into spectator sport: clipboard, drawl, and guests from across the aisle in conversations that refused the sound bite. Syndicated, then PBS, it ran for decades on polysyllables. Political talk before the countdown clock — intellectual blood sport with manners, and sentences allowed to finish on national television.
Clipboard, drawl, and a guest from across the aisle — argument as spectator sport before the countdown clock. Firing Line is William F. Buckley Jr. turning political talk into ballet and blood sport at once. Premiered 1966, then ran through syndication and PBS into 1999. Sesquipedalian flair, pointed civility, ideas as combat. Public-affairs TV with a maestro's ego. Sentences allowed to finish on national television. **It set a gold standard for intellectual TV debate across ideological lines.**
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- William F. Buckley Jr. as Host
William F. Buckley Jr. hosted Firing Line as argument-as-spectator-sport — clipboard, drawl, guests from across the aisle in conversations that refused the sound bite. Syndicated, then PBS, decades on polysyllables. TV Flash files him as…