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• #13910: CBS NEWS REPORTS: "109 DAYS TO VENUS"

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  1962-12-12, CBS, min.

  • Walter Cronkite
  • Fred Friendly
  • Edward R. Murrow
  • Edward Teller
  • Fred Hoyle
  • Sir Bernard Lovell
  • Robert Brcewell
  • Robert Parks

  October 27,1959-
  Documentaries produced by CBS Television usually telecast as Specials.
  Fred Friendly produced the series for the first several years. Most notable broadcast that put this iconic documentary series of specials on the map was Edward R. Murrow reporting HARVEST OF SHAME (NOVEMBER 25, 1960) about the plight of the American farm worker and the shocking conditions in which farm laborers live, travel and labor in American fields and orchids.  
  
  This report shows the flight of Venus space-pro Mariner 11, scheduled to navigate our planet a distance of 21,000 miles in two days (12/12/62). Also, an overview of humankind's efforts to explore deep space and a look at the possibilities of life on other planets. 
  
  Interviewed arr project director Robert Parks and scientists Edward Teller, Sir Bernard Lovell, and Robert Bracewell. 
  
  A news special on the US Venus probe.  
  
   Walter Cronkite Reports.
  
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• #5550: TOMORROW SHOW WITH TOM SNYDER, THE

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  1976-02-19, WNBC, 60 min.

  • Tom Snyder
  • Fred Friendly

  "The Tomorrow Show" with Tom Snyder.
  
  October 15, 1973-January 28, 1982. 
  
  This  broadcast featured  Fred W. Friendly (born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer, October 30, 1915 – March 3, 1998) who was a president of CBS News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program SEE IT NOW. He was also first executive producer of a landmark series, CBS REPORTS, and originated the concept of public-access television cable TV channels. 
  
  Friendly chats with Tom Snyder in this rare TV interview, relating many anecdotes about his career in broadcasting and the challenges he faced working at CBS as President.  
  Includes commercials. 
  
  THE TOMORROW SHOW, An hour-long talk show hosted by Tom Snyder. Network television's first entry into late-late-night programming on weeknights Monday thru Thursday, usually broadcasting on tape 1 AM to 2 AM. "Tomorrow" was expanded to 90 minutes on September 16, 1980.