The Long Search

The Long Search
Genre	Documentary series
Created by	BBC
Directed by	Jonathan Stedall
Presented by	Ronald Eyre
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producer	Peter Montagnon
Camera setup	John Else, et al.
Running time	52 minutes per episode
Original release
Release	19 September (1977-09-19) – 12 December 1977 (1977-12-12)

The Long Search was a 1977 BBC documentary television series spanning 13 episodes. Presented by theatre director Ronald Eyre, the series surveyed several major world religions, including Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christianity. Other episodes surveyed 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

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

External links

• Archive.org collection
• Ambrose Video
• Amazon.com customer reviews of the BBC television series
• Link to Ninian Smart's companion book for the BBC television series
• Survey of series as published in 6(1) Religious Studies Review 17 (Jan. 1980)