Recalls the World War I era through newsreel, period music, photographs, and film clips. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is interviewed in-scene of his father's film The Mark of Zorro.
EP2 1947Aug 11, 1982
Travel back to the prosperous post-World War II era, in a year when the baby boom was beginning, sonic booms heralded the jet age, gas was only 23 cents a gallon, and Americans were migrating to the suburbs.
EP3 1969Sep 08, 1982
Travel back to the period of anti-war protests, the advancement of civil rights, the birth of "Doonesbury" and Sesame Street, Richard Nixon, and Woodstock.
EP4 1933Oct 09, 1982
A look at the end of Prohibition, baseball's first all-star game, and America's recovery from the Great Depression.
EP5 1942Nov 07, 1982
A look at the era of war bonds, victory gardens, food and gas rationing, and the Big Band sound. Guest: Ralph Levenberg, a survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March
EP6 1927Dec 08, 1982
Go back to 1927, the year Charles Lindbergh made the first transatlantic flight, liquor flowed in speakeasies, and both the economy and job opportunities were booming. Janet Gaynor is interviewed in-scene of her movie of that year, Seventh Heaven.