Mayday
2003 · Documentary · Drama
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TV series / 1985
Television
Exhaustive 13-part survey of the television medium from its hesitant beginnings in the 1920s to the multi-million dollar extravaganzas of today and the cable and satellite technologies of the future [relative to 1985]. Tackling the medium as a worldwide phenomenon, the series examines each of the principal areas of programming - news, drama, documentaries, and light entertainment - and the unique impact of "live" coverage.
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Exhaustive 13-part survey of the television medium from its hesitant beginnings in the 1920s to the multi-million dollar extravaganzas of today and the cable and satellite technologies of the future [relative to 1985]. Tackling the medium as a worldwide phenomenon, the series examines each of the principal areas of programming - news, drama, documentaries, and light entertainment - and the unique impact of "live" coverage.
Cast
Ian HolmSelf - Narrator (voice)
George Gerbner
Arthur C. Clarke
Robin Day
Fred W. Friendly
Herbert Brodkin
Walter Cronkite
William Shatner
Spike Milligan
Richard Cawston
Ken Loach
Harold Wilson
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Pamela Stephenson
David Frost
Dennis Potter
Mary Whitehouse
Indira Gandhi
Kurt Wagenführ
Elma Farnsworth
Gerhart Goebel
John Pulman
Don Ohlmeyer
Hugh Greene
Taro Kimura
Pierre Salinger
Dean Rusk
William T. Orr
Hisashi Yamauchi
Daniel Filho
Gore Vidal
Rod Steiger
Peter Cushing
Yoshihiko Okamoto
Milton Berle
Hughie Green
Michael Parkinson
Raffaella Carrà
Joan Ganz Cooney
Franco Zeffirelli
David L. Wolper
David Attenborough
Dick Van Dyke
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