Yesteryear

Miniseries

6 episodes · Jul 7, 1982

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  • S1E1

    1917

    Jul 7, 1982

    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.

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  • S1E2

    1947

    Aug 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.

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  • S1E3

    1969

    Sep 8, 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.

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  • S1E4

    1933

    Oct 9, 1982

    A look at the end of Prohibition, baseball's first all-star game, and America's recovery from the Great Depression.

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  • S1E5

    1942

    Nov 7, 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

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  • S1E6

    1927

    Dec 8, 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.

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