The Seventies | |
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Genre | Television documentary |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Executive producers |
Tom Hanks Gary Goetzman Mark Herzog |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production companies |
CNN Playtone Herzog & Company |
Original release | |
Network | CNN |
Release | June 11 August 13, 2015 | –
Related | |
The Sixties The Eighties The Nineties The 2000s The Movies The 2010s |
The Seventies is a documentary miniseries which premiered on CNN on June 11, 2015. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman' studio Playtone, and serving as a follow-up to The Sixties, the 8-part series chronicled events and popular culture of the United States during the 1970s. [1]
In February 2016, CNN announced that it would premiere a third installment in the franchise, The Eighties, on March 31, 2016. [2]
Episode | Title | Date | US viewers (millions) | |
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1 | "Television Gets Real" | June 11, 2015 | 0.887 [3] | |
Television of the 1970s, including new series reflecting and satirizing current issues (such as All in the Family and Saturday Night Live), new formats, Monday Night Football, etc. | ||||
2 | "United States vs. Nixon" | June 18, 2015 | 0.901 [4] | |
The presidency of Richard Nixon, including the Watergate Scandal and his resignation. | ||||
3 | "Peace with Honor" | June 25, 2015 | 0.770 [5] | |
The United States' exit from the Vietnam War. | ||||
4 | "Crimes and Cults" | July 9, 2015 | 0.681 [6] | |
Notable crimes of the 1970s, including Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, the Son of Sam murders, and the Zodiac Killer. | ||||
5 | "The State of the Union Is Not Good" | July 16, 2015 | 0.882 [7] | |
America went from bad to worse as the country dealt from one crisis to the next throughout the 1970s. | ||||
6 | "Battle of the Sexes" | July 23, 2015 | 0.742 [8] | |
The feminist and LGBT rights movements in the United States during the 1970s. | ||||
7 | "Terrorism at Home and Abroad" | July 30, 2015 | 0.709 [9] | |
Terrorism in the 1970s, from TWA Flight 841 to the Munich Olympic Massacre. | ||||
8 | "What's Goin' On" | August 13, 2015 | 0.837 [10] | |
American popular music exploded into new formats and artists found new ways to express themselves, from Blondie to Billy Joel to KISS. |
CNN announced the production of the miniseries The Seventies on November 20, 2014, serving as a continuation of their previous documentary miniseries The Sixties. [1]