Host and narrator James Garner takes us behind the scenes inside many studios and inside the minds and hearts of the makers of movies. Insights are provided by Debbie Reynolds, Anthony Quinn, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Jules Dassin, Fred Zinnemann, Peter Ustinov, J. Lee Thompson, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Perkins, J.P. Miller, Arthur Hiller, Bernard Wicki, Stanley
Kramer, Samuel Bronston, and Robert Lawrence.
A tongue in cheek look at the new prototype of "escape" fiction and his friends, his women, his villains, and his triumphs. James Bond is played by Sean Connery.
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
1969-1975. A half-hour public affairs series hosted by Tony Batten for WETA-TV Washington. A retrospective look at the Civil Rights Movement. Three veteran leaders of the fight for equality, Lloyd McKissick, Andrew Young, Elia Baker reflect on their accomplishments and failures.
1976-1982
Thirty-minute documentary program exploring strange phenomena.
Hosted by Leonard Nimoy.
In search of the Loch Ness monster. (Series Premiere).
1976-1982 (Syndicated). Leonard Nimoy hosts this series which explores strange phenomenon. This broadcast featured the story of John Merrick, a deformed London man of the late 1800s.
1976-1982 (Syndicated). Leonard Nimoy hosts this series which explores strange phenomenon. This broadcast featured a reenactment of events leading to Abraham Lincoln's death.
1976-1982 (Syndicated). Leonard Nimoy hosts this series which explores strange phenomenon. This broadcast examined theories of evolution and creation, including Darwin's Theory.
1976-1982 (Syndicated). Leonard Nimoy hosts this series which explores strange phenomenon. This broadcast featured a look at Aztec society, a powerful civilization ruled by King Montezuma, which was defeated by Cortez.
1976-1982 (Syndicated). Leonard Nimoy hosts this series which explores strange phenomenon. This broadcast featured the turbulent life and strange death of Bishop James Pike, examined through dramatic reenactments.
1976-1982 (Syndicated). Leonard Nimoy hosts this series which explores strange phenomenon. This broadcast examined the possibility of photographs capturing images not visible to the human eye.
1976-1982 (Syndicated). Leonard Nimoy hosts this series which explores strange phenomenon. This broadcast examined the 1483 disappearance of King Edward IV's two young sons who were heirs to the British Throne.
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