Episode 1
Television Gets Real
The 1970s were known for extremes, perhaps nowhere more than on television. PBS and C-SPAN launched, but so di...
Episode 2
The United States vs. Nixon
How did a "third-rate burglary" lead to the only presidential resignation in American history? We trace the st...
Episode 3
Peace with Honor
The Vietnam War is one of the defining events of recent American history. It still exerts enormous influence o...
Episode 4
Crimes and Cults
America suffered through one of its most violent decades as crime rates soared and Charles Manson, Ted Bundy,...
Episode 5
The State of the Union is Not Good
That unlikely phrase is taken from President Gerald Ford's 1975 State of the Union address and reflects an Ame...
Episode 6
Battle of the Sexes
Sex was everywhere in the 1970s. No decade in our history witnessed such a seismic shift in sexual mores, cust...
Episode 7
Terrorism at Home and Abroad
From the massacre of athletes at the Munich Olympics to the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, the 1...
Episode 8
What's Goin' On
After the breakup of the Beatles, popular music exploded into a variety of new formats and genres as artists i...