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Article: PBS series explores highs and lows of `Television'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 25, 1988
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Television (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) 1/2
PBS presents an eight-part series hosted by Edwin Newman, produced
by Jack Sameth and Michael Winship and written by Winship. Part 1
will air from 8 to 9 tonight on WTTW-Channel 11.
When you pause long enough to think about television, it
staggers the mind to consider that the same medium that has given us
"Three's Company," Geraldo Rivera, "The Gong Show," Morton Downey, "T
and T," Joan Rivers and "A Different World" also took us to the moon,
blessed us with "Masterpiece Theatre," roused us with the triumph of
the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, shattered us with the funeral of
John F. Kennedy, moved us with Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman and made
us ...