Marlon Brando, who just months earlier had rejected his Academy Award for The Godfather to protest the plight of American Indians, appeared on the show with representatives of the Cheyenne, Paiute and Lummi tribes to promote his views. After the program ended, Brando assaulted photographer Ron Galella, who ended up in the hospital after being punched in the face. October 1973: Katharine Hepburn two-hour interview Having previously never appeared on television, Katharine Hepburn—for reasons still unknown—decided to visit Cavett's studio for a tour. After critiquing the carpet and rearranging the set, Hepburn suggested they "go ahead and do it now." During her two-part interview, Hepburn got up and left at the end of the first half of the interview, thinking her job was done. Cavett apologized to the audience, promising that she would be back the next evening (she was). However, this was actually staged by Cavett and Hepburn as a joke. February 21, 1974: Carol Burnett interview Actress Carol Burnett appeared and was interviewed for the entire 90-minute program. 1979: Oscar Peterson Pianist Oscar Peterson expertly demonstrated the styles of Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Nat King Cole and George Shearing. The show began with Peterson playing a solo piece and he then discussed his debut and his view on critics. 1980s October 1980: Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard appeared in two 1980 episodes promoting the film Every Man for Himself and discussing his philosophy of filmmaking. These are included as supplements on the Criterion Collection's DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film. Home media Five DVD sets have been released featuring various episodes of the series. Resurgence Global Image Works, the current owner of the footage of the show, has made a YouTube channel with clips from the show. It launched on June 7, 2018. As of June 2020, the channel has over 47.3 million views. News outlets have covered clips from the show, mostly because of the celebrities. HBO released a documentary called Ali and Cavett: The Tale of Tapes, which is about Muhammad Ali's friendship with him, making the show even more popular in the 2020s. Reruns of the show currently air weeknights on the Decades cable network, though 90-minute episodes have been cut to fit a one-hour slot, and musical performances are almost always removed, presumably for licensing reasons. In popular culture In a scene from the 1977 Woody Allen-directed film, Annie Hall, Allen appears on