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Original Release
10/04/1988
US Release
10/04/1988
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| David McCullough | Self - Host |
| Glenn Close | Self - Narrator |
| Bill Haley | Self |
| John F. Kennedy | Self |
| Rhonda Coullet | Narrator |
| Sam Waterston | Narrator |
| Werner Klemperer | Prince Maximilian of Bavaria |
| Fats Domino | Self |
| Warren Austin | Self - US Delegate to UN |
| Irv Drasnin | Narrator |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Great San Francisco Earthquake | Tuesday, 04 October 1988 |
| 2 | Radio Bikini | Tuesday, 11 October 1988 |
| 3 | Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo | Tuesday, 18 October 1988 |
| 4 | Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream | Tuesday, 25 October 1988 |
| 5 | The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter | Tuesday, 01 November 1988 |
| 6 | Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys? | Sunday, 06 September 1987 |
| 7 | Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close | Tuesday, 15 November 1988 |
| 8 | Geronimo and the Apache Resistance | Tuesday, 22 November 1988 |
| 9 | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited | Tuesday, 29 November 1988 |
| 10 | That Rhythm, Those Blues | Tuesday, 06 December 1988 |
| 11 | The Radio Priest | Tuesday, 13 December 1988 |
| 12 | Hearts and Hands | Tuesday, 20 December 1988 |
| 13 | Views of a Vanishing Frontier | Tuesday, 27 December 1988 |
| 14 | Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings | Tuesday, 03 January 1989 |
| 15 | The World That Moses Built | Tuesday, 10 January 1989 |
| 16 | Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline | Tuesday, 17 January 1989 |
Directors
Robert Drew, George T. Nierenberg, Irv Drasnin, Rocky Collins, Craig B. Fisher, Frank J. De Meo, Pat Ferrero, Neil Goodwin, Patchy Wheatley, Jon Blair, Anthony Potter, Martha Sandlin, Robert Stone
Writers
Eric Sevareid, Rocky Collins, Martha Sandlin, Edward Gray, Eudora Welty, Helen Ashton, Jon Blair, Irv Drasnin, Craig B. Fisher, Tom Weidlinger, Beth Ferris
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| David McCullough | Self - Host |
| Glenn Close | Self - Narrator |
| Bill Haley | Self |
| John F. Kennedy | Self |
| Rhonda Coullet | Narrator |
| Sam Waterston | Narrator |
| Werner Klemperer | Prince Maximilian of Bavaria |
| Fats Domino | Self |
| Warren Austin | Self - US Delegate to UN |
| Irv Drasnin | Narrator |
| Harold Urey | Self - Concerned About Bikini Test |
| John Smitherman | Self - Veteran of Nuclear Weapons Tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946 |
| Lee van Atta | Self - Radio Reporter |
| Bernard Baruch | Self |
| Ruth Brown | Self |
| James Agee | Self |
| Harry S. Truman | Self |
| Nancy Allen | Self |
| Eric Sevareid | Self |
| Woodrow P. Swancutt | Self |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Judy Crichton | Executive Producer |
| Robert Drew | Executive Producer |
| Mark Samels | Executive Producer |
| Laurie Kahn | Producer |
| Judy Crichton | Producer |
| Glenn Close | Producer |
| Sharon Grimberg | Producer |
| Margaret Drain | Producer |
| Alan Yentob | Producer |
| Susan Bellows | Producer |
| Kevin Rafferty | Producer |
| Irv Drasnin | Producer |
| Martha Sandlin | Producer |
| Mary Lampson | Producer |
| Jon Blair | Producer |
| Lindsay Fontana | Producer |
| Tom Weidlinger | Producer |
| Shelby Stone | Producer |
| Edward Gray | Producer |
| Anthony Potter | Producer |
| Susan Mottau | Producer |
| Jonathan Weisgall | Producer |
| Patchy Wheatley | Producer |
| Carol Bell | Producer |
| Neil Goodwin | Producer |
| Robert Stone | Producer |
| Anne Gilbert | Producer |
| Barbara Abrash | Producer |
| David Hoffman | Producer |
| Judith Quain | Producer |
| Janis Weidlinger | Producer |
| Pat Ferrero | Producer |
