March 11, 1976 - Midday presents Martin Bunzl's documentary on U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey. Bunzl traveled with Humphrey for several weeks collecting information for this production. Program contains various speeches, commentary, interviews, and advertising/music clips.
March 12, 1976 - Interview with Stephen Sell, executive director of the Minnesota State Arts Board, about problems of state funding for the arts.
March 14, 1976 - An interview with Richard Lyons, poet and professor of English at North Dakota State University, about his recent work of poetry and photography which offers a unique view of North Dakota.
March 26, 1976 - Reflections of the North documentary presents two Minnesota naturalists and artists, writer Sigurd Olson and photographer Les Blacklock, who offer readings and personal commentary on life in the “North.”
March 27, 1976 - Governor Rudy Perpich discusses the debate on cyclone fencing.
April 4, 1976 - Claudia Hampston talks with artist Bela Petheo about his paintings in and on Duluth.
April 7, 1976 - MPR’s Kate Williams profiles Sutton’s, a gay bar in downtown Minneapolis that relocated to a more prominent location. Sutton’s has been around for over a decade but it officially came out of the closet last week when it opened its doors to over 800 people at a new location…the old Elk’s Club on 5th street in downtown Minneapolis.
May 10, 1976 - Author of “Our Two Lives,” Madame Halina Rodzinski talks about her love and marriage to her husband, the conductor Artur Rodzinksi.
May 17, 1976 - Calvin Fremling, Winona State University biologist, discusses river management of Minnesota's section of the Mississippi with reporter Neal St. Anthony at River Conference. Dr. Fremling has spent most of his professional career studying man's effects on the Mississippi River.
June 3, 1976 - MPR’s Claudia Hampston reports on formation of group called Friends of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Hampston interviews two members of group on it’s purpose in preserving the wilderness designation of BWCA.