- April 29, 1990 | A World of IdeasAre defense workers' jobs the price for peace?
- April 23, 1990 | Updated March 24, 2015 | A World of IdeasBill Moyers talked with Mike Rose, a decades-long advocate for those on the margins of LA. After attending a poor neighborhood school where no one expected him to succeed, Rose because the associate director of the UCLA writing program.
- March 25, 1990 | A World of IdeasThe director of the Los Angeles Festival talks with Bill about his controversial theater work.
- March 18, 1990The brilliant young theater directory discusses music and the future of Los Angeles and its art world.
- March 4, 1990In the second part of this 1990 interview with Bill Moyers, author Maxine Hong Kingston explains how she blends tales of tradition and her own American experience in her writing.
- February 4, 1990In this 1990 interview, the Bell Labs scientist tells Bill that studying computers makes him realize how beautiful it is to be human.
- January 8, 1990 | A Gathering of Men with Robert BlyBill Moyers and poet Robert Bly explore the changing role of men in modern America.
- November 29, 1989 | The Public MindBill Moyers examines how deception has influenced some of the major events of our recent past and how self-deception shapes our personal lives and the public mind.
- July 30, 1989 | A Second LookAn unflinching account of the disintegration of family in the African-American community.
- May 14, 1989 | A Second LookBill Moyers sits down with Mortimer Adler to discuss an array of topics, including: Aristotle, Marx, adult education and happiness and Adler's book, Aristotle for Everybody.