# The Long Search

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| genre         = Documentary series
| creator       = [BBC](/source/BBC)
| director      = [Jonathan Stedall](/source/Jonathan_Stedall)
| presenter     = [Ronald Eyre](/source/Ronald_Eyre)
| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| num_seasons   = 1
| num_episodes  = 13
| list_episodes = 
| producer      = [Peter Montagnon](/source/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}} 
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'''''The Long Search''''' is a 1977 [BBC](/source/BBC) [documentary](/source/documentary) [television series](/source/television_series) spanning 13 [episode](/source/episode)s. Presented by theatre director [Ronald Eyre](/source/Ronald_Eyre), the series surveys several major world [religions](/source/religions), including [Protestant](/source/Protestant), [Orthodox](/source/Eastern_Orthodox_Church), and [Catholic Christianity](/source/Catholic_Christianity). Other episodes survey [Theravada](/source/Theravada) and [Zen](/source/Zen) [Buddhism](/source/Buddhism), [Islam](/source/Islam), [Judaism](/source/Judaism), [Hinduism](/source/Hinduism), and the [New Age](/source/New_Age) movement. Location filming took place in [India](/source/India), [England](/source/England), [Italy](/source/Italy), [Japan](/source/Japan), [Israel](/source/Israel), [Romania](/source/Romania), [Sri Lanka](/source/Sri_Lanka), [Taiwan](/source/Taiwan), the [United States](/source/United_States), [Egypt](/source/Egypt), [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia), and [South Africa](/source/South_Africa).

Scholar of religion [Ninian Smart](/source/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](/source/DVD), and is currently distributed by Ambrose Video.

==Episode listing==

#[Protestant](/source/Protestant) Spirit USA ([Indiana](/source/Indiana))
#[Hinduism](/source/Hinduism): 330 Million gods
#[Buddhism](/source/Buddhism): Footprint of the [Buddha](/source/Buddha) ([Sri Lanka](/source/Sri_Lanka))
#[Catholicism](/source/Catholicism): [Rome](/source/Rome), [Leeds](/source/Leeds) and the Desert
#[Islam](/source/Islam): There is no God but God ([Egypt](/source/Egypt))
#[Orthodox Christianity](/source/Eastern_Orthodox_Church): The [Romania](/source/Romania)n Solution
#[Judaism](/source/Judaism): The Chosen People
#Religion In [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia): The Way of the Ancestors ([Toraja](/source/Toraja))
#[Buddhism](/source/Buddhism): The Land of the Disappearing [Buddha](/source/Buddha) ([Japan](/source/Japan))
#[African Religions](/source/Religion_in_Africa): [Zulu Zion](/source/African_Zionism) ([South Africa](/source/South_Africa))
#[Taoism](/source/Taoism): A Question of Balance ([Taiwan](/source/Taiwan))
#[Alternative Lifestyles](/source/Alternative_Lifestyles) in [California](/source/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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