Your Dollar's Worth; 27; Wall Street: Place Your Bets

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Series
Your Dollar's Worth
Episode Number
27
Episode
Wall Street: Place Your Bets
Producing Organization
WGBH Educational Foundation
National Educational Television and Radio Center
National Educational Television and Radio Center
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/15-32d7xd29
NOLA Code
YRDW
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Description
Episode Description
This study of stock market investments focuses on the activities of a single broker, Robert Laffan of Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., New York. Laffan is seen as he addresses an investment club, attempts to sign up a large mutual fund order, and meets with a small investor. These scenes dramatize the economic pressure placed on the broker, whose business virtually requires him to favor the large investor at the expense of the small customer. The episode also visits the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and discusses investment with several of its 1,300 members, whose seats are now worth approximately half a million dollars apiece. Among those appearing in this episode are Edward Johnson, a Boston-based magnate in the mutual fund business; Daniel J. Bernstein and Graham Loving, member of the New York Stock Exchange and top executives in their own investment firms; Leo Calarco, a Greenwich Village lawyer who recounts his own hazardous experiences with a stock broker; Robert J. Denison, a partner in First Security Co.; and Albert Foster Thalheimer, account executive for Merrill Lynch. "Your Dollar's Worth - Stocks and Bonds" is a National Educational Television production. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Series Description
This monthly series is devoted to informing consumers of best buys, frauds, practices and marketing in such fields as patent medicines, hard good (e.g. autos, washing machines, refrigerators, televisions, etc.) and also explores the areas of insurance and medical care. In 1966 NET produced a 4-episode series called Dollars and Sense, which then changed its name to Your Dollar's Worth and continued to air from 1966-1970. The episodes of Your Dollar's Worth were originally recorded on videotape in both color and black and white. Episodes 5 - 16 ran about 30 minutes each. Episodes 17 - 36 ran about 1 hour each. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Broadcast Date
1969-01-29
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Documentary
Topics
Economics
Business
Consumer Affairs and Advocacy
Media type
Moving Image
Credits
Executive Producer: McCarthy, Harry
Executive Producer: McCarthy, Harry
Host: McCutchen, Richard
Host: McCutchen, Richard
Interviewee: Denison, Robert J.
Interviewee: Bernstein, Daniel J.
Interviewee: Laffan, Robert
Interviewee: Thalheimer, Albert Foster
Interviewee: Calarco, Leo
Interviewee: Loving, Graham
Interviewee: Johnson, Edward
Producer: McGhee, Peter S.
Producer: McGhee, Peter S.
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Writer: McGhee, Peter S.
Writer: McGhee, Peter S.
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WGBH
Identifier: P03161 (WGBH File Number)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Copy: Access
Duration: 00:55:00
WGBH
Identifier: 11686A (WGBH Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Print
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2393052-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
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Citations
Chicago: “Your Dollar's Worth; 27; Wall Street: Place Your Bets,” 1969-01-29, WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 2, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-32d7xd29.
MLA: “Your Dollar's Worth; 27; Wall Street: Place Your Bets.” 1969-01-29. WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 2, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-32d7xd29>.
APA: Your Dollar's Worth; 27; Wall Street: Place Your Bets. Boston, MA: WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-32d7xd29