The Fabulous Sixties
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The Fabulous Sixties was a 10-part Canadian television documentary
miniseries narrated by Peter Jennings
. Each episode featured a year from the 1960s.
The programmes were produced by Philip Hobel and Douglas Leiterman under the production units Hobel-Leiterman Productions and Document Associates. The duo then produced the regular-season series Here Come the Seventies
and Target: The Impossible
for CTV.
The first episode aired on CTV 12 October 1969 with the following episodes broadcast as occasional specials into 1970. The series was released on DVD 24 April 2007 by MPI Home Video.http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MGBSLC
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
miniseries narrated by Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...
. Each episode featured a year from the 1960s.
The programmes were produced by Philip Hobel and Douglas Leiterman under the production units Hobel-Leiterman Productions and Document Associates. The duo then produced the regular-season series Here Come the Seventies
Here Come the Seventies
Here Come the Seventies was a Canadian documentary television series seen nationally on CTV from 1970 to 1973 normally on Thursday nights at 9:30 ....
and Target: The Impossible
Target: The Impossible
Target: The Impossible was a Canadian documentary television series seen nationally on CTV from September 1973 to mid-1974 normally on Tuesday nights at 9:30 ....
for CTV.
The first episode aired on CTV 12 October 1969 with the following episodes broadcast as occasional specials into 1970. The series was released on DVD 24 April 2007 by MPI Home Video.http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MGBSLC
Episodes
- "1960, Be a Man - Sell Out" (aired CTV 12 October 1969)
- "1961, Victory Has a Hundred Feathers"
- "1962, Morality and Brinkmanship"
- "1963, End of a Thousand Days"
- "1964, From Liverpool With Love" (aired CTV 25 January 1970)
- "1965" (no additional detail in title) (aired CTV 15 February 1970)
- "1966, Life, liberty and the pursuit of violence"
- "1967, Love is in the Air..."
- "1968, Up Against the Wall"
- "1969, The Eagle Has Landed"