Twentieth Century (TV series)
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The Twentieth Century was a half-hour documentary television series broadcast over CBS-TV from 1957 until 1970. [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050072/] It was hosted and narrated by Walter Cronkite and telecast Sunday evenings. The series covered significant events of the 20th century and consisted largely of newsreel footage, and was sponsored by Prudential Insurance. It was the winner of two Emmy Awards.
It is perhaps significant of the era that this was a long-running documentary series telecast weekly by a major commercial television at an hour close to prime time. Such an undertaking would very likely be frowned on today by the network executives, and would be relegated either to PBS or to cable television. In fact, a new edition of the series, with Mike Wallace acting as host, was telecast on A&E in the 1980's, but not on CBS, NBC, or ABC.
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[http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/T/htmlT/the20thcent/the20thcent.htm Museum of Broadcast Communications Page on "The Twentieth Century"]
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