Around the World with Orson Welles was a series of six short travelogue

Travel literature

Travel literature is travel writing of literary value. Travel literature typically records the experiences of an author touring a place for the pleasure of travel. An individual work is sometimes called a travelogue or itinerary. Travel literature may be cross-cultural or transnational in focus, or...

s originally written and directed by Orson Welles

Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...

 for Associated-Rediffusion

Associated-Rediffusion

Associated-Rediffusion, later Rediffusion, London, was the British ITV contractor for London and parts of the surrounding counties, on weekdays between 1954 and 29 July 1968. Transmissions started on 22 September 1955.-Formation:...

 in 1955. Among the more notable episodes, Welles visited Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...

 and Juliette Gréco

Juliette Gréco

Juliette Gréco, — also Michelle – is a French actress and popular chanson singer.-Early life and family:Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother who became active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal...

 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, attended a bullfight

Bullfighting

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 in Madrid

Madrid

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 and visited the Basque Country

Basque Country (historical territory)

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. One episode (Third Man Returns To Vienna also known as Revisiting Vienna) was considered lost until found by Ray Langstone in the Archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society

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in June 2011.

The several titles of the episodes are:

• St.-Germain-des-Prés
• Madrid Bullfight
• Chelsea Pensioners
• Pays Basque I (The Basque Countries)
• Pays Basque II (La Pelote basque)
• Third Man Returns to Vienna