PBS LateNight; 273 Bobby Seale (Former Black Panther Leader), Pete Mazzola (N.Y. Police Detective On UFOs)
- Series
- PBS LateNight
- Producing Organization
- Detroit Public Television (aka DPTV and WTVS)
- Contributing Organization
- Detroit Public Television (Wixom, Michigan)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-0993868db29
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Mike Wendland talks to the co-founder of the Black Panther party, Bobby Seale. Seale answers viewers’ questions. Wendland talks to Pete Mazzola about UFOs and the Scientific Bureau of Investigation, an organization that aims to make sense of the numerous reports of unidentified flying objects. Mazzola answers viewers’ questions.
- Series Description
- PBS LateNight is America's late night, call-in talk show and on Tuesday, January 4, 1983, LateNight celebrated its one year anniversary. Hosted by Dennis Wholey, the show is broadcast five nights a week, Monday through Friday across the country to nearly 100 cities. For late night viewers everywhere, PBS LateNight fills the need for a balanced diet of information and entertainment. Our guests have included Watergater John Dean, political cartoonist Jules Feiffer, best-selling author Judith Krantz, Rev. Jerry Falwell, actor Ed Asner, NBC anchor Jessica Savitch, actress Cybill Shepard, columnist Jack Anderson, and UAW leader, Doug Fraser. Each week night, our host, Dennis Wholey invites viewers all over the country to join in, via telephone and speak directly with our LateNight guests. PBS LateNight currently averages approximately 4000 attempted phone calls per night and in the twelve months we have been broadcasting over 1 million calls have been placed - all at the viewers' expense.
- Broadcast Date
- 1982-09-01
- Asset type
- Episode
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 01:03:02:22
- Credits
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Host: Wendland, Mike
Interviewee: Mazzola, Pete
Interviewee: Seale, Bobby
Producing Organization: Detroit Public Television (aka DPTV and WTVS)
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Detroit Public Television (aka DPTV and WTVS)
Identifier: cpb-aacip-0fc7b7781c9 (Filename)
Format: U-matic
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- Citations
- Chicago: “PBS LateNight; 273 Bobby Seale (Former Black Panther Leader), Pete Mazzola (N.Y. Police Detective On UFOs) ,” 1982-09-01, Detroit Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 11, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-0993868db29.
- MLA: “PBS LateNight; 273 Bobby Seale (Former Black Panther Leader), Pete Mazzola (N.Y. Police Detective On UFOs) .” 1982-09-01. Detroit Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 11, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-0993868db29>.
- APA: PBS LateNight; 273 Bobby Seale (Former Black Panther Leader), Pete Mazzola (N.Y. Police Detective On UFOs) . Boston, MA: Detroit Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-0993868db29