Season
- Season 2023 2023-04-22
- Season 2022 2022-02-13
- Season 2021 2021-05-16
- Season 2020 2020-05-18
- Season 2019 2019-07-07
- Season 2018 2018-02-04
- Season 2017 2017-02-10
- Season 2016 2016-03-18
- Season 2012 2012-01-10
- Season 2011 2011-04-25
- Season 2010 2010-01-22
- Season 2009
- Season 2008 2008-04-09
- Season 2007 2007-10-14
- Season 2005
- Season 2004
- Season 2003 2003-12-19
- Season 2002
- Season 2001 2001-12-25
- Season 2000 2000-07-02
- Season 1996 1996-01-01
- Season 1994
- Season 1993
- Season 1992
- Season 1991
- Season 1990 1990-04-06
- Season 1989 1989-01-13
- Season 1988 1988-01-08
- Season 1987
- Season 1986
- Season 1985
- Season 1984 1984-11-02
- Season 1982 1982-11-09
- Season 1981 1981-03-19
- Season 1980
- Season 1979 1979-01-22
- Season 1978 1978-10-11
- Season 45
- Season 38
- Season 25
- Season 23
- Season 6
- Season 3 1977-09-07
- Season 2 1976-08-25
- Season 1 1975-10-01
Episode
- Episode 1: Cinema: Francois Truffaut
- Episode 2: Cinema: Vanessa Redgrave
- Episode 3: Cinema: Hooray for Hollywood?
- Episode 4: Cinema: The Thirty-nine Steps and this year's London Film Festival
- Episode 5: Cinema: A report from Bombay
- Episode 6: Cinema: Robert Altman
- Episode 7: The Museum of Drawers
- Episode 8: On Photography
- Episode 9: Cinema
- Episode 10: Who Is Poly Styrene?
- Episode 11: Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes
- Episode 12: Cinema: John Carpenter and star Donald Pleasence on Location in Los Angeles plus Blue
- Episode 13: Maler's Requiem
- Episode 14: Cinema: Piaf
- Episode 15: Cinema: John Barry
- Episode 16: Other Writers Will Tell You Different....
- Episode 17: Cinema: Isabelle Huppert
- Episode 18: Ubu
- Episode 19: My Way
- Episode 20: Cinema: Don Siegel
- Episode 21: La Dame aux Gladiolas
- Episode 22: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On
- Episode 23: Cinema: Kung Fu, Run Run Shaw and Bruce Lee
- Episode 24: Tell Us the Truth
- Episode 25: The King and I
- Episode 26: Their Lips are Sealed
- Episode 27: Pictures of the Mind
Arena Season 1978 Cinema: John Carpenter and star Donald Pleasence on Location in Los Angeles plus Blue
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
