• 2001: 24 Hours in the Life of a Hit
    Jan 21 2021

    Premiering at the worst time imaginable, the Kiefer Sutherland drama series 24 re-invents the TV thriller in 2001, against all odds.

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    15 mins
  • 1981: The Cop Show is Re-Born
    Jan 14 2021

    After 30 years of basically black-and-white storytelling about the (usually) boys in blue, the TV cop drama is re-thought in 1981 as the hard-charging and provocative and messy and multi-threaded "Hill Street Blues."

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    16 mins
  • 1949: The News Story That Made News Itself
    Jan 7 2021

    The facts are sad and the story is tragic. But the tale of Kathy Fiscus is a watershed moment in the history of broadcast journalism.

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    17 mins
  • 1972: Happy New Year from Guy Lombardo, Dick Clark, or Ryan Seacrest (Depending on Your Age)
    Dec 31 2020

    In the 1970s, Dick Clark re-invented an annual New Years Eve tradition and owned the holiday for the next 40 years.

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    13 mins
  • 1970: The Black-and-White of a classic "Bewitched" Christmas
    Dec 24 2020

    A class full of 10th graders coming together to write an episode of a TV show? In 1970, it was a holiday treat, with a timely lesson.

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    11 mins
  • 2015: A Tribute to David Letterman
    Dec 17 2020

    The end of the late-night Letterman era actually begins 35 years earlier on morning TV.

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    13 mins
  • 1965: "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!"
    Dec 10 2020

    It wasn't the first animated holiday special to air on television, but it did become the most enduring and most popular.

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    15 mins
  • 1963: "Six Seconds that Changed Media Forever"
    Dec 3 2020

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    15 mins