Episode 7. Hold on to your historical seats. Tonight’s episode is titled “The Veneer of Civilization,” and it covers the period from June 1968 to May 1969. Just the summer of 1968 alone is one of the most tumultuous periods in our country’s history – I teach it, in my TV History & Appreciation class covering the 1960s and 1970s, and that summer alone because of the quantity and speed of tragic events. And this episode covers all that, then keeps going, in a manner that’s both understandable and, emotionally, almost incomprehensible. For a full review of this episode, see Alex Strachan’s TV That Matters. Check local listings.

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