
HBO's eight-part monthly series recalls the places, the people and the events relevant to eight major strands in America's cultural and social fabric -- cowboys, radio, transportation, sex, journalism, sports, inventions and advertising -- via newsreel clips, period music, theatrical movie sequences, and on-location shootings. Host Dick Cavett steps in and out of historic scenes in this follow-up to his earlier HBO series entitled Time Was.
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Air Date: 1981-05-11
Dick Cavett narrates and steps into a vivid panorama of legendary figures, events and locations which made up the his...
Air Date: 1981-06-08
Dick Cavett traces the history of American radio, from the first signals sent by Marconi to the days when audio comed...
Air Date: 1981-07-06
Dick Cavett traces the history of American transportation from the covered wagon of the Old West to the newly develop...
Air Date: 1981-08-03
The determination of American inventors, whose concepts and ideas changed the face of the entire nation as they went ...
Air Date: 1981-09-07
Dick Cavett unfolds the story of the American free press, its printers and publishers, headlines and by-lines, scanda...
Air Date: 1981-10-05
Host/narrator Dick Cavett cheers America's love of sports with a close look at the superstars and great teams, grand ...
Air Date: 1981-11-02
Dick Cavett looks at the traditions and revolutions, the rigidities and liberties that make up America's always-chang...
Air Date: 1981-12-07
Dick Cavett reviews 200 years of American commercialism -- the posters and propaganda, hyping and huckstering, commer...