A panoramic overview of the events and people that shaped six of the most important years in American history.
S1E1 · 1982-07-07
Recalls the World War I era through newsreel, period music, photographs, and film clips. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is interviewed in-scene of his father's film The Mark of Zorro.
S1E2 · 1982-08-11
Travel back to the prosperous post-World War II era, in a year when the baby boom was beginning, sonic booms heralded the jet age, gas was only 23 cents a gallon, and Americans were migrating to the suburbs.
S1E3 · 1982-09-08
Travel back to the period of anti-war protests, the advancement of civil rights, the birth of "Doonesbury" and Sesame Street, Richard Nixon, and Woodstock.
S1E4 · 1982-10-09
A look at the end of Prohibition, baseball's first all-star game, and America's recovery from the Great Depression.
S1E5 · 1982-11-07
A look at the era of war bonds, victory gardens, food and gas rationing, and the Big Band sound. Guest: Ralph Levenberg, a survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March
S1E6 · 1982-12-08
Go back to 1927, the year Charles Lindbergh made the first transatlantic flight, liquor flowed in speakeasies, and both the economy and job opportunities were booming. Janet Gaynor is interviewed in-scene of her movie of that year, Seventh Heaven.
Dick Cavett
Self - Host
