Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969)

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The Sixties
29th May 2014 1 hour Season 1 Episode 1

Americans gathered around “the tube,” to be informed and entertained by the news, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, I Dream of Jeannie, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, and more. Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Dick and Tom Smothers, Carol Burnett, Dick Cavett, Diahann Carroll, Carl Reiner, Vince Gilligan, Petula Clark and others describe how the ground-breaking, rule-breaking, norm-bending dramas, historical events, and sitcoms reflected and influenced who we were.

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The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)

The heady days of Camelot were clouded by the political and military tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Marvin Kalb, Richard Reeves, Robert Dallek, Sergei Khrushchev and more explain how close the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis brought us all to World War III – and how two nuclear superpowers moved from near confrontation to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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01 Tom Hanks profile Tom Hanksas Self 02 Walter Cronkite profile Walter Cronkiteas Self (archive footage) 03 David Brinkley profile David Brinkleyas Self (archive footage) 04 Dan Rather profile Dan Ratheras Self (archive footage) 05 Shirley Chisholm profile Shirley Chisholmas Self (archive footage)
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