Reel 7147

ANNIVERSARY SHOWS:

The 200th Show w/past highlights.

The series celebrates its first decade with a compendium of highlights. Hugh Downs, who has hosted 20/20 since its second show, and Barbara Walters recall some of their memorable reports. For Walters, they include interviews with President Reagan (1981), First Lady Nancy Reagan (1986), activist Abbie Hoffman (1980), Prince Charles (1984), Betty Ford (1987) and Donna Rice (1987). Downs, meanwhile, remembers his adventure segments, including a trip to the South Pole (1983) and a yacht race to Bermuda (1985). Also "Moment of Crisis" footage, including a New Orleans skyscraper fire in 1980 and the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981; excerpts of investigative stories by John Stossel, Tom Jarriel and Gerald Rivers; "Personal Touch" talks with White House press secretary James Brady (1986), Stevie Wonder (1985) and violinist Itzhak Perlman (1985); and profiles, including Barbara Streisand, George Burns and Steven Spielberg (2 hrs.)

"The day 60 Minutes went on the air," Harry Reasoner remembers, "no one knew what an syndical was or what Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was. And a surrogate mother was someone who looked after your kids." That day was Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1968, and tonight, CBS's Sunday staple begins a two-part retrospective on two decades of profiles, topical stories and muckraking reports. Critics called the latter ambush journalism. They became a series trademark, sometimes elaborately mounted. One example was a 1978 segment in which the series set up a phony clinic in Chicago to expose a Medicaid kickback scheme. In a less covert 1977 story, Mike Wallace "ambushed" a man running a California "college" where master's degrees could be bought for $250. Part I (which concentrates on the first 10 years) also recalls memorable interviews with Presidential nominee Richard Nixon (1968), who speaks of "restoring respect to the Presidency," and Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, who scoffs "Cover-up? What cover-up?" in a 1973 talk about Watergate. Then there's the magnificent 94-year-old conductor Leopold Stokowski (1977), who says he remained so active because "I've tried the opposite and it's boring." (60 min.) Wallace and Reasoner during the first season & 10/17/88 The investigative newshounds at 60 Minutes celebrate 20 years of topical muck-raking, championing the oppressed, tilting at windmills and profiling newsmakers with a two-part special (concluding next week at this time). Tonight's first half, appropriately enough, examines segments from the seminal newsmagazine's first decade. See the Close-up on A-61. (7 PM S) 10/10/88

The 200th Show w/past highlights.

The series celebrates its first decade with a compendium of highlights. Hugh Downs, who has hosted "20/20" since its second show, and Barbara Walters recall some of their memorable reports. For Walters, they include interviews with President Reagan (1981), First Lady Nancy Reagan (1983), activist Abbie Hoffman (1980), Prince Charles (1984), Betty Ford (1987) and Donna Rice (1987). Downs, meanwhile, remembers his adventure segments, including a trip to the South Pole (1983) and a yacht race to Bermuda (1985). Also: "Moment of Crisis" footage, including a New Orleans skyscraper fire in 1980 and the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1982; excerpts of investigative stories by John Stossel, Tom Jarriel and Geraldo Rivera; "Personal Touch" talks with White House press secretary James Brady (1986), Stevie Wonder (1985) and violinist Itzhak Perlman (1985); and profiles, including Barbra Streisand, George Burns and Steven Spielberg. (2 hrs.)

"The day 60 Minutes went on the air," Harry Reasoner remembers, "no one knew what an ayatollah was or what Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was. And a surrogate mother was someone who looked after your kids." That day was Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1968, and tonight, CBS's Sunday staple begins a two-part retrospective on two decades of profiles, topical stories and muckraking reports. Critics called the latter "ambush journalism." They became a series trademark, sometimes elaborately mounted. One example was a 1976 segment in which the series set up a phony clinic in Chicago to expose a Medicaid kickback scheme. In a less covert 1977 story, Mike Wallace "ambushed" a man running a California "college" where master's degrees could be bought for $250. Part 1 (which concentrates on the first 10 years) also recalls memorable interviews with Presidential nominee Richard Nixon (1968), who speaks of "re-storing respect to the Presidency," and Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, who scoffs: "Cover-up? What cover-up?" in a 1973 talk about Watergate. Then there's the magnificent 94-year-old conductor Leopold Stokowski (1977), who says he remained so active because "I've tried the opposite and it's boring." (60 min.) Wallace and Reasoner during the first season & 10/17/88. The investigative newshounds at 60 Minutes celebrate 20 years of topical muckraking, championing the oppressed, tilting at windmills and profiling newsmakers with a two-part special (concluding next week at this time). Tonight's first half, appropriately enough, examines segments from the seminal newsmagazine's first decade. See the Close-up on A-61. (7 PM 5) 10/10/88

The 200th Show w/past highlights.