Meeting of minds; No. 105
- Series
- Meeting of minds
- Episode Number
- No. 105
- Producing Organization
- KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Contributing Organization
- The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-526-319s17tp8p
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This is episode 105, with "guests" Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei, Emily Dickinson, and Attila the Hun.
- Series Description
- "'Meeting of Minds' is a series of six hour-long television broadcasts broken down into three groups of two episodes each. Submitted for consideration are the first episodes of each group. Intended for a general audience and recommended by the National Education Association, 'Meeting of Minds' presents Steve Allen as moderator to four important persons from the past who discuss some of the most significant social questions of Western history in which their philosophies and actions have had significant impact. On the broadcasts, the historical figures are aware of the world as it is today and of how history has judged them. The first two episodes feature Queen Cleopatra, St. Thomas Aquinas, Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Paine as they discuss and argue women's rights, social justice, the defense of slavery, and religion. Karl Marx, Sir Thomas More, Marie Antoinette, and Ulysses S. Grant are featured in the third and fourth episodes. The major topics discussed, defended, and argued are the causes of revolution and its consequences, the tragic hatreds of civil war, and the merits and failures of monarchies, dictatorships, and democracies. On the last two episodes, Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei, Emily Dickinson, and Attila the Hun discuss matters such as the incredible wastefulness of nature, creativity, love, faith, and man as a warlike being."--excerpt from 1977 Peabody Awards entry form.
- Broadcast Date
- 1977-02-07
- Asset type
- Episode
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 01:00:20.350
- Credits
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Actor: Meadows, Jayne
Director: Franchini, Bruce
Executive Producer: d'Usseau, Loring
Host: Allen, Steve
Producer: Rosemond, Perry
Producing Organization: KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Writer: Allen, Steve
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the
University of Georgia
Identifier: cpb-aacip-66818369c3b (Filename)
Format: U-matic
Duration: 01:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Meeting of minds; No. 105,” 1977-02-07, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 19, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-319s17tp8p.
- MLA: “Meeting of minds; No. 105.” 1977-02-07. The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 19, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-319s17tp8p>.
- APA: Meeting of minds; No. 105. Boston, MA: The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-319s17tp8p