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Season 1

  • S01E01 Ed Sadlowski: A Message to Pittsburgh

    • January 7, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Studs Terkel interviewed 36 year old Sadlowski, director of the largest district of the United Steelworkers of America Union and the nation’s newest spokesman for union democracy.

  • S01E02 Alf Landon at 87

    • January 14, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    A portrait of Landon, who ran for president against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, with George Will, combining Landon’s recollections with still photographs and newsreel footage.

  • S01E03 Jerry Della Femina: The Cat that Barked

    • January 21, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Doris Kerns profiled maverick advertising executive Jerry Della Femina, and his independent ad agency, known for the humor and cleverness of its advertising campaigns.

  • S01E04 Ray Bradbury: The Fantasy Maker

    • January 28, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    The man often considered the best living science-fiction writer was interviewed by Maya Angelou with talk centering on abstract concepts of the relationship between science, religion and magic.

  • S01E05 Maggie Kuhn: Wrinkled Radical

    • February 4, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Studs Terkel interviewed the head of the Gray Panthers, a militant organization fighting for the rights of the elderly.

  • S01E06 Murry Kempton: The Sentimental Socialist

    • February 11, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Liberal writer Kempton, who has been a member of the Young Communist League, a Norman Thomas Socialist, a New York Post columnist and a trade union supporter, was interviewed by George Will.

  • S01E07 Dr. Harvey Cox: What in God’s Name?

    • February 18, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Dr. Cox, radical professor of theology at Harvard and author of The Secular City, discussed his contemporary unorthodox approach to religion with Doris Kerns.

  • S01E08 Angela Davis: A Closer Look

    • February 25, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Maya Angelou visited controversial black radical and former professor Angela Davis at her home, and discussed her childhood, her time in prison and the role of the black woman in the women’s movement.

  • S01E09 Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgi: The Doctor’s Dilemma

    • March 4, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Studs Terkel talked to the founder of the Institute for Muscle Research, and discussed his past career, his current research and his concern over the future of a world that spends more on weapons than on medical research.

  • S01E10 Pete Rozelle: Report from the Commissioner

    • March 11, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    George Will interviewed National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle, and discussed aspects of pro football, Howard Cosell, legalized sports gambling, drug use by players and the fate of the World Football League.

  • S01E11 Does America Still Work?

    • March 18, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    In Washington, D.C., the four hosts discussed aspects of the country they discovered in the past ten weeks; they looked at the current state of U. S. society and where it was headed.

  • S01E12 Valerie Harper

    • March 25, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Valerie Harper, star of the hit situation-comedy series “Rhoda,” discussed with Maya Angelou her career and colleagues, and the differences between herself and her television character.

  • S01E13 The New South (Part I)

    • April 1, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    A two-part investigation, by Doris Kearns, of the South of the 1970s, with Congressman Andrew Young (D.-GA.), former Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and John Popham, editor-in-chief of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Daily Times.

  • S01E14 The New South (Part II)

    • April 8, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    A two-part investigation, by Doris Kearns, of the South of the 1970s, with Congressman Andrew Young (D.-GA.), former Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and John Popham, editor-in-chief of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Daily Times.

  • S01E15 Bill Mauldin and Pat Oliphant: If it’s Big, Hit it (Part I)

    • April 15, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Two Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists discussed their individual careers and philosophies of political and social commentary with Studs Terkel.

  • S01E16 Bill Mauldin and Pat Oliphant: If it’s Big, Hit it (Part II)

    • April 22, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Two Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists discussed their individual careers and philosophies of political and social commentary with Studs Terkel.

  • S01E17 Bill Russell: Basketball’s Gentle Giant

    • April 29, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Russell, now coach and general manager of the Seattle Supersonics, discussed with Maya Angelou his career and his decision to refuse induction into the basket ball Hall of Fame.

  • S01E18 Hugh Hefner at 49

    • May 6, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Playboy magazine publisher discussed his empire, past accomplishments and goals for the future with George Will.

  • S01E19 Conversation with a Native Son

    • May 13, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Novelist, essayist and outspoken black rights advocate James Baldwin talked about his career with Maya Angelou.

  • S01E20 Edward Bennett Williams: Superlawyer

    • May 20, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    The defender of such men as Jimmy Hoffa, Frank Costello, Bobby Baker, Adam Clayton Powell and Gov. Connally discussed with George Will whether only the rich can afford true justice in today’s society.

  • S01E21 Lloyd C. Gardner & Warren Susman: Can We Forget Our History?

    • May 27, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Studs Terkel talked with two Rutgers University political scientists – Lloyd C. Gardener and Warren Susman – about how America will behave in a post-Vietnam era.

  • S01E22 A Brooklyn All Their Own

    • June 3, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Doris Kearns toured New York City’s “city within a city,” guided by some famous natives: Phil Foster, Robert Merrill, Sam Levensen and Herschel Bernardi.

  • S01E23 Las Vegas: Dreams in the Desert

    • June 17, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    George Will toured the gambling capital of America, including a visit to a casino, a look at the Hoover Dam and a conversation with the proprietor of a large brothel.

  • S01E24 Sissy Farenthold: A Texas Maverick

    • June 24, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    The former candidate for governor of Texas and U.S. Vice-President discussed the growing role of women in politics with Studs Terkel.

  • S01E25 Berkeley: Where Have All the Rebels Gone?

    • July 1, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    Maya Angelou contrasted the differences between Berkeley’s student activities of a decade ago with present members of that university’s student body.

  • S01E26 Cartier-Bresson’s New Jersey: A Short Cut through America

    • July 8, 1975
    • WNET / THIRTEEN

    This program featured Henri Cartier-Bresson’s first photographic essay in two years. Television cameras recorded the artist’s examination of poverty and affluence existing side-by-side in this corner of America.