The Long Search

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | genre = Documentary series | creator = BBC | director = Jonathan Stedall | presenter = Ronald Eyre | country = United Kingdom | language = English | num_seasons = 1 | num_episodes = 13 | list_episodes = | producer = Peter Montagnon | camera = John Else, et al. | runtime = 52 minutes per episode | first_aired = {{start date|1977|9|19| df=yes}} | last_aired = {{end date|1977|12|12| df=yes}} }} '''''The Long Search''''' is a 1977 BBC documentary television series spanning 13 episodes. Presented by theatre director Ronald Eyre, the series surveys several major world religions, including Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christianity. Other episodes survey Theravada and Zen Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and the New Age movement. Location filming took place in India, England, Italy, Japan, Israel, Romania, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, the United States, Egypt, Indonesia, and South Africa.

Scholar of religion Ninian Smart acted as editorial consultant to the show, and also authored a companion book by the same name. The series was re-issued on DVD, and is currently distributed by Ambrose Video.

==Episode listing==

#Protestant Spirit USA (Indiana) #Hinduism: 330 Million gods #Buddhism: Footprint of the Buddha (Sri Lanka) #Catholicism: Rome, Leeds and the Desert #Islam: There is no God but God (Egypt) #Orthodox Christianity: The Romanian Solution #Judaism: The Chosen People #Religion In Indonesia: The Way of the Ancestors (Toraja) #Buddhism: The Land of the Disappearing Buddha (Japan) #African Religions: Zulu Zion (South Africa) #Taoism: A Question of Balance (Taiwan) #Alternative Lifestyles in California: West Meets East #Reflections on the Long Search

==External links== * [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Series%3A+The+Long+Search+%281977%29%22 Archive.org collection] * [http://www.ambrosevideo.com/items.cfm?id=869 Ambrose Video] * [https://www.amazon.com/The-Long-Search-Set/product-reviews/B000EZMUJ0 Amazon.com customer reviews of the BBC television series] * [https://www.amazon.com/Long-Search-Ninian-Smart/dp/0316798754 Link to Ninian Smart's companion book for the BBC television series] * [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-0922.1980.tb00031.x/abstract Survey of series as published in 6(1) ''Religious Studies Review'' 17 (Jan. 1980)]

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