1962-1964 Syndicated.

Mike Wallace narrates biographical retrospectives of notable people. This syndicated filmed 65 half-hour program series was one of the first to be produced by David Wolper. 

The life of Winston Churchill is profiled on this re-run showing on independent station WPIX in New York.                      

An increasing number of young men have refused to serve or support a war that they consider immoral. Tonight's documentary examines this resistance movement. An hour of the program will be devoted to a profile of Chic Marston, Jr. who burned his draft card on the steps of the Boston Court House last year. Photo-Journalist Lee Lockwood probes Marston's reasons for his act, and the reactions of his family and neighbors in Rockport, Mass. Films show all-night college anti-draft teach-ins and Boston's Arlington Street Church draft-card burning and turn-in. A report on Americans who have gone to Canada to avoid the draft is telecast live from Toronto. Members of the "Boston Five" debate with VFW commander Robert Scherra before an audience of university students. The final segment features participants in Boston, New York and Washington in live-interconnect debate on the moral justification for breaking the law, and its effects on the government. Moderator is Harvard Law School professor Jerome Cohen.                                                   

Documentary about a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's subcommittee about investigations into conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. 

From April to June 1954, a nation wide audience saw history made on TV. Emile de Antonio explores that era. The focus is on McCarthy's rise to national prominence, and his desperate attempt to save face.            

"The Great Mating Game" surveys the singles scramble in an affluent-and morally relaxed-America. 

On view: apartment houses "for singles only" and preferred meeting spots for unmarried; a discotheque in Los Angeles, a bar in New York and a resort hotel, where a singles ski weekend drew nearly 3000 young adults. Electronic dating is examined at a computer party. There were 1,300,000 marriages to be consummated in the United States in 1968.
 
In one poignant and revealing segment Jack McKennes, of the musical rock group ORPHEUS, describes the loneliness of a hardworking musician's life. The song "Never Seen Love Like This" is sung by the group.

Narrator: Jean Shepherd.

This half hour documentary Special was written and produced by
David Yarnell, who's other 1960's & '70's  producing credits include The 17th Annual Tony Awards (1963), The Mini-Skirt Rebellion (1967), Firing Line (1966-1968), In Concert (1972), Rock Concert (1973), and The Rock 'n' Fun Magic Show (1975).

 Music by Orpheus and The Rascals. 

Complete with Clairol commercials. 
Clairol Fast Color Shampoo
Nice and Easy Clairol Shampoo
Clairol: "The Girl Form Uncurl"
Excedrin Strength Relief 
VOTE Toothpaste and
Clairol Shampoo   
                                                                                                    

The opening of this CBS documentary special. Eric Sevareid narrates. 

Opening only.            

A documentary special about the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.             

Orson Welles and Martin Balsam narrated this ABC special on recollections concerning the life of American Film Producer Mike Todd, who died in the crash of a private plane on March 22nd, 1958. Todd was the third husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor and the only husband she did not divorce. Todd's 1956 film "Around The World In Eighty Days" won the Academy Award for best picture.

National Geographic documentary narrated by Alexander Scourby and Joseph Campanella.             

Henry Fonda narrates the legacy of movie titan David O. Selznick. Anecdotes recalled by Ingrid Bergman, Russell Birdwell, Joseph Cotten, George Cukor, Joan Fontaine, Janet Gaynor, Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Rock Hudson, Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, and King Vidor.   

Duplicate of #785.          

By changing his environment, man threatens his own existence. The question now is whether he can save himself. 
This program, produced in association with The American Museum of Natural History, takes an historical view of this ecological dilemma. Films trace the evolution of life and examine species that have vanished because they did not adapt to changing conditions, notably the dinosaur. (Rare film from the 1920s recounts the discovery of dinosaur eggs in the Gobi).
Man, too, interacts with his surroundings. In Africa, anthropologist Colin Turnbull contrasts pygmies living in happy harmony with their jungle to members of the IK tribe, whose bleak and loveless society reflects a hostile environment. In the South Pacific, Margaret Mead observes the the devastating impact of modern life on a primitive culture. 
A montage of 20th-century events and people introduces modern man's predicament: a burgeoning technology that produces pollution and overpopulation as by-products of progress. Will it save man -or take him the way of the dinosaur?
Richard Basehart narrates. Produced, written, and directed by Michael Flaum. ("Let My People Go").                

The story of Elvis Presley from his birth to his death. 

Many hours of coverage.             

Scenes of the Old West- described by people who lived there-are recreated in this half-hour chronicle. 
Producer James Benjamin set out to show life in the late 1800s as it really was, unadorned by romanticism or legend. To do it, he talked with two men and a woman who were there. (They were also among those interviewed by John Myers for his book "The Westerners," the basis for this program.) Their remarks are interspersed with stills and art of the Old West and reenactments (by nonprofessionals) at Pioneer Arizona Village, near Phoenix, Arizona.
The three historians are Charlie Blake, 90, a cowboy who specialized in bronx busting; Pecos Higgins, 86, who left Texas to escape the law; and Agnes Wright Spring, in her late 70s, who arrived after the others and typified settlers who witnessed the end of a great American era.

Narrated by Robert Ryan.               

Mary Yates is the widow of NBC news producer Ted Yates, killed in the 1967 Middle East war. This hour follows the adventures of Mary and her three young sons on a trip to Uganda and Kenya...visiting Murchison Falls National Park;climbing Mount Kenya; witnessing a skirmish between park rangers and a Sudanese band of cattle raiders; exploring the remote Lebetero Hills; and joining a Peace Corp innoculation program.                         

There are more questions than answers in this collection of scientific puzzles.     

NASA films, animation, computers and other aids illustrate such mysteries as dolphin language, functions of the brain, and UFO's. Other topics are turtle migration, community life among baboons, cell division and embryonic growth, continental drift, the possibility of life on other worlds, and ancient slabs at Mystery Hill, N.H., that may be related to England's Stonehedge. 

More than 20 scientific authorities (including writer Isaac Asimov and Dr. Jonas Salk) discuss the puzzles. 

Arthur C. Clarke, author of "2001: A Space Odyssey," is the host. Script by Clifton Fadiman. Narrated by Rod Serling.                                   

A profile of British conductor Leopold Stokowski. Narrated by actor Michael Caine.             

September 12th, 1970- September 4th, 1971. (NBC)


Hot Dog was a Saturday morning documentary series for children seen on NBC.

with Woody Allen, Jonathan Winters, Joanne Worley, The Monkees, Dick Cavett who reads football poetry, films of Laurel and Hardy.                           

A ten part anecdotal series, aired by PBS in 1971, with Jon Tuska, executive editor of "Views and Reviews." 

An examination of the first western motion picture cowboys, as a very integral part of American Cultural History, including insightful time line information and facts related to G.M. (Broncho Billy) Anderson, William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard, Buch Jones, Tim McCoy, Tex Ritter, John Wayne.  

Broncho Billy Anderson is profiled- The Great Train Robbery 1903.

                                     

A ten part anecdotal series, aired by PBS in 1971, with Jon Tuska, executive editor of "Views and Reviews." 

An examination of the first western motion picture cowboys, as a very integral part of American Cultural History, including insightful time line information and facts related to G.M. (Broncho Billy) Anderson, William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard, Buch Jones, Tim McCoy, Tex Ritter, John Wayne.  

Tex Ritter is profiled.

                                                                                                                   

May 10th 1971-August 30th, 1971 (ABC)

Mel Torme hosted this nostalgic look at selected years from the twentieth century. Each week a different year was highlighted thru remembrances and song.

This week: 1933. Scheduled sequences... America goes wild with the repel of prohibition; Capone, Dillinger, and Bonnie and Clyde make headlines; pastels and chiffon adorn the fashion world; Model B. Fords roll off the assembly line; and Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany.
Also: an interview with fan dancer Sally Rand (the hit of the Chicago World's Fair), and a montage of depression scenes set to Barbra Streisand's "Happy Days Are Here Again." 
Mel Torme is host.                        

May 10th 1971-August 30th, 1971 (ABC)

Mel Torme hosted this nostalgic look at selected years from the twentieth century. Each week a different year was highlighted thru remembrances and song.

This week: 1939. Scheduled sequences... The German invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland; "The City" a film short about problems created by the new prosperity (such as choking traffic); stills from "The Wizard Of Oz" and "Gone With The Wind"; Pablo Picasso's anti-war painting "Guermica" (with films of Madrid in flames); the opening of the New York World's Fair and Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball.

Host: Mel Torme. 
                                  

May 10th 1971-August 30th, 1971 (ABC)

Mel Torme hosted this nostalgic look at selected years from the twentieth century. Each week a different year was highlighted thru remembrances and song.

This week: 1927. Scheduled sequences...the flight of Charles A. Lindbergh; a Knute Rockne half-time speech; an excerpt from Al Jolson's "The Jazz Singer", Helen Morgan singing "My Bill" (from "Showboat") and excerpts from "Wings," the first Oscar-winning film. Star Richard Arlen is a studio guest. Also: a recreation of the Round Table at New York's Algonquin Hotel, mecca of the 20's literati. Woollcott: Victor Buono. Edna Ferba: Ann Seymour. Noel Coward: Jonathan Harris, Dorothy Parker: Alice Backes. Mel Torme host.                

May 10th 1971-August 30th, 1971 (ABC)

Mel Torme hosted this nostalgic look at selected years from the twentieth century. Each week a different year was highlighted thru remembrances and song.

This week: 1941. Films include Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt's "Date That Will Live In Infamy" speech; the Battle Of Britain ; arms production in the US; Japanese-American internment camps; civil air defense training sessions; and stars such as Abbott and Costello selling war bonds.On a lighter note, Agnes Moorehead reminiscences about Orson Welles and her part in "Citizen Kane," and boxing champ Joe Louis is seen in training. 

Host: Mel Torme. 
                                                            

May 10th 1971-August 30th, 1971 (ABC)

Mel Torme hosted this nostalgic look at selected years from the twentieth century. Each week a different year was highlighted thru remembrances and song.

This week: 1932. Scheduled sequences...Franklin Roosevelt campaigns for the presidency; the Bonus Army marches on Washington; Radio City Music Hall opens in New York; Jackie Cooper talks about his role in "The Champ," host Mel Torme sings excerpts from Broadway's "Of Thee I Sing"; a salute to Greta Garbo.     

Host: Mel Torme                             

Narrated by Burgess Meredith. 

Original broadcast: December 11th, 1968.          

October 22, 1971  - July 28, 1972

A monthly magazine news program, successor to First Tuesday, it was telecast on the fourth Friday of each month. Garrick Utley hosted the two hour show.  

Bob Rogers reporting on Laos, where a Laotian unit of hill-tribe guerrillas is pitted against invading north Vietnamese troops. Heavy military invasions which threatens the very existence of Laos.                

The lost art of radio comedy is examined with audio excerpts from Radio's past, including Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, George Burns, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Bing Crosby, Jim Jordan, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Parker Fennelly, Peter Donald, Harry Bailey, Ken Roberts, and Al Bernie. Produced by Perry Miller Adato.  

See entry # 1114 for details.           

James Cagney, Charlie Chaplin, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Humphrey Bogart,
Raoul Walsh, John Houston, John Garfield, Howard Hawks, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Walter Huston, Gregory Peck, Lee Marvin, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Robert
Mitchum, Albert Maltz, Frank Capra, Dalton Trumbo, and others are personalities remembered by writer Richard Schickel in this retrospective of the 40's in the film industry. John Cassavetes narrates. Written by Richard Schickel.             

February 1st, 1953- October 13th, 1957 (CBS)      
September 11th, 1971- January 8, 1972 (CBS)
Re-runs Jan. 15 thru September 2, 1972 (CBS)

Walter Cronkite, TV host of YOU ARE THERE.
At the end of the program, after Cronkite summarized what happened in the preceding event, he reminded viewers, "What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times... all things are as they were then, except you were there."

After a 14 year gap the series was seen again on Saturday mornings as a videotaped color program from 1971 to 1972. 14 new episodes were produced, aired on Saturday afternoons from 12:30pm to 1:00pm. The format of the revival was basically the same as the original versions. These programs were also hosted by Cronkite. Both series were produced by CBS News.

An unusual Public Affairs series, YOU ARE THERE began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Many contemporary CBS NEWS correspondents would appear in each broadcast for the revival series.  Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfus. 
   
In today's  repeat episode: "The Mystery of Amelia Earhart." 
Chronicles events in the mysterious disappearance of the aviatrix on a July 2nd 1937 flight across the Pacific.
Geraldine Brooks stars as Amelia Earhart. With Richard Dreyfus, Fred Noonan, Thomas Connelly. Richard C. Hottelet recreates an interview with Amelia Earhart.

Commercials include:
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WOMAN OF THE YEAR 1973 is a Special CBS one hour prime time broadcast that seems lost to history. It is not even notated on IMDb or anywhere to be found on the internet.   

Awards are given for American women, the "doers, achievers, and shapers of society."  

Rosalind Russell is host for the ceremonies, sponsored by the Ladies' Home Journal. Lenore Hershey is introduced.  

Eight woman are presented with gold pendants during the hour, which is telecast live from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Introductions and short biographies follow. 

Margaret Chase Smith introduces Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.):public affairs.

Marlo Thomas introduces Helen Hayes: arts and humanities.

Barbara Walters introduces Katharine Graham: president of the Washington Post Company: business and economy. 

Lynda Johnson Robb introduces Poet Nikki Giovanni: youth leadership.

Kathryn Crosby introduces Dr. Virginia Apgar: for work against birth defects.

Cicely Tyson introduces Ladonna Harris:
for civil rights activities on behalf of American Indians.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver introduces Mary Lasker: for encouraging medical research and national beautification. 

Mamie Eisenhower introduces Ellen Straus: creator of WMCA radio "call for action" hot line in which listeners talk about community problems. 

Comedy related to women's liberation and accomplishment are interspersed during the broadcast. 

Cloris Leachman and Tony Randall in a "Woman for President" skit, 
Sandy Duncan and Jack Klugman in a "First American Woman to go into Outer Space skit, and Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna in an "I am a Person" skit. 

Helen Reddy sings "I Am Woman."

At the conclusion the entire ensemble sing  Katharine Lee Bates' "America, America."

Complete broadcast with Clairol commercials.                                       

The Singer Bowl in Queens, NY is renamed Louis Armstrong Memorial Stadium on July 4th, 1973.          

The soundtrack of a film on the 1954 Army- McCarthy hearings. Presented on Chicago Public Television Channel 11. 

An examination of mysteries of the ancient world and their connection to the possibility that aliens visited Earth.

Originally telecast in 1973.