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.
Genres
Documentary
Production Countries
- United States of America
Spoken Languages
- English en
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Cast
Dick Cavett
Self - Host
Crew
Bruce Cohn
Producer
Mitchell Barry
Writer
Bruce Cohn
Director
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