Firing Line
Mini-Series on Crime, Part III: Do We Need Prisons at All
TV Flash files “Mini-Series on Crime, Part III: Do We Need Prisons at All” as hour 304 of 326 in the TV Flash guide — Firing Line (1966–1999) on Syndicated/PBS, season 29, episode 29, aired 1994-10-04, 120 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S29E29: listed hour 304 of 326 in the Firing Line guide, hour 2 of 3 in season 29. It aired 1994-10-04 (120 min). The listed hour before it is “Are Medical Costs Controllable?” (S29E02). Next is “Mini-Series on Crime, Part IV: Realistic Insights into Crime and Punishment” (S29E30).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Mini-Series on Crime, Part III: Do We Need Prisons at All sit in the Firing Line guide?
S29E29 is listed hour 304 of 326 — hour 2 of 3 in season 29, season 29 episode 29.
When did Firing Line S29E29 air?
Mini-Series on Crime, Part III: Do We Need Prisons at All aired 1994-10-04 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…