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1969
April 23, 2019  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

ABC, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: I’m really pumped about this new nonfiction ABC series. It’s a six-part look at the year 1969 – and since I teach a TV History class on television in the 1960s and 1970s, I’m well aware of the richness of the vein ABC is about to tap. Tonight’s opener, for example, is called “Moon Shot,” and leads up to the most amazing, and most viewed, television event in the history of the medium: The live TV coverage, direct from the moon, of man’s first step on any planetary body other than Earth. That was 50 years ago – like everything else in this must-see series.

 
 
 
 
 
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Zeke
So very very glad you've noted this Series!!
HS Class of '68, the year 1968 is burned into my memories.
Still in shock from JFK, and Malcolm X, and more... April brought MLK Assassination, followed quickly by June RFK. VN protests were intense, no end to War in sight, the Chicago DNC Convention riots, Election 1968 - and so much more--
When 1969 dawned, the country needed a break. The Moon shot, summer 1969 was a much needed "Feel Good" Countrywide experience, for all generations.
(although my Grandmother swore that every weather event was because "those men walked on the Moon!) And we still had Woodstock to go.
Feeling now that History is speeding by... the pace of IT.
It was an equally spinning time -- and felt similarly intense, fraught and emotional as we're feeling now.
I'll note it gave way to the 70's and Go-go dancers, disco and...so..what have we next?
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