Basic Info

First Air: May 11, 1981

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Last Episode

Name: The Image Makers

Season: 1, Episode: 8

Air Date: 1981-12-07

Runtime: 59 min

Dick Cavett reviews 200 years of American commercialism -- the posters and propaganda, hyping and huckstering, commercials and come-ons -- from the early colonial period through today's $54 billion advertising industry.

Remember When

1981 1 seasons 8 episodes

Overview

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.