June 22, 1997
Interview: William Steig; "The room at the top"; "The great divide" ; "One wedding and a funeral" ; "Getting under the skin"
June 29, 1997
Interview: Connie Chung; "Coming to America"; "The brains and the boom" ; "My brilliant anticareer" ; "Preserving the bunker mentality"
July 6, 1997
Interview: Steve Allen; "A taste for adventure" ; "Don't fence them in" ; "The promise of vitamin E"
July 13, 1997
Interview: Arthur Hailey; "Herbal renewal" ; "9 to whenever" ; "Pet project"
July 20, 1997
Interview: Bill Lee; "North to Tim Pond"; "Worlds apart" ; "Porch Potato" ; "When the old man is old"
July 27, 1997
Interview: Gary Alpert; "Warriors for peace" ; "Goodbye, boss - hello, freedom" ; "Connecting the dots of data"
August 3, 1997
Interview: George Hamilton; "Tragedy transformed" ; "Rules of engagement" ; "To catch a killer"
August 10, 1997
Interview: Israel Horovitz; "Dyasty's daugher"; "The electronic soapbox" ; "Small change, big point" ; "No noise is bad noise"
August 17, 1997
Interview: Ada Louise Huxtable; "From trap to table" ; "America in line" ; "A pain that persists"
August 24, 1997
Interview: Sam Gash; "Fantasy Island"; "Counter culture" ; "Bring back the weirdos" ; "Capital punishment's curious allure"
August 31, 1997
Interview: Wendy Kaminer; "A death next door" ; "Same words, different language" ; "The aches of aging"
September 7, 1997
Interview: H. Richard Nesson; "In Picasso's footsteps"; "Securing the future" ; "The roots of happiness" ; "Disturbances in the field"
September 14, 1997
Interview: Clare Dalton; "A decade of Prozac"; "A region apart" ; "Garage mechanics" ; "Mixed signals"
September 21, 1997
Interview: David McCullough; "Daughter of Cuba" ; "Things not to do today" ; "Sunflowers, or something more?"
September 28, 1997
Interview: Jeff Benedict; "Rebuilding the city"; "Growth industries" ; "Mommie greenest" ; "On-line lifelines"
October 5, 1997
Interview: Charles E. Walker; "River renaissance"; "Running out of outrage" ; "Companies of strangers" ; "Facial attraction"
October 12, 1997
Interview: Jacqueline Cronsberg; "Omar Walker's long run"; "Court gesture" ; "Photographic memories" ; "Genetic testing"
October 19, 1997
Interview: Anna Faith Jones; "Stalking the thrush" ; "Knickknacks make the man" ; "Road scholars"
October 26, 1997
Interview: Sumner Redstone; "The next wave" ; "A town full of strangers" ; "Trick or treatment?"
November 9, 1997
Interview: David Mamet ; "Decorating to extremes" ; "The canker sore mystery"
November 16, 1997
Interview: Herbert Benson; "City lights"; "Wasted effort" ; "Payroll cravings" ; "Finding the bottom line"
November 23, 1997
Interview: Claire Bloom; "The saga of RU-486" ; "Primal time" ; "Growing old, not grumpy"
November 30, 1997
Interview: Victoria Rowell ; "Impermanent fixtures" ; "Time travel, in a new light"
December 7, 1997
Interview: Betty Lou McLanahan; "Under Fire" ; "Cold comfort" ; "The morning after"
December 14, 1997
Interview: Jeffrey Timmons; "From Boston to Beirut" ; "The blame game" ; "A common thread"
December 21, 1997
Interview: Suzanne Bates; "Water world" ; "Shoveling leaves" ; "A pill for smokers"
