Season 9

Host Dick Cavett welcomes guests singer-songwriter Paul Simon, poet-playwright Anthony Burgess, actress Barbara Howar, novelist Jerzy Kosinski and the Jessy Dixon Singers.

Host Dick Cavett welcomes guests British actor Roy Dotrice and rocker David Bowie. Highlights: David performs "1984" and "Young Americans." Dick interviews David, then David performs "Footstompin'." The other number "Can You Hear Me" was not televised. Dotrice presents portions of his one-man show "Brief Lives" in which he portrays 17th century diarist John Aubrey.

De Palma and Scorsese on Welles and Hitchcock