Our World

S1 · E1 · 25 sep. 1986

Summer of 69 Aflevering 1

S1 · E2 · 2 okt. 1986

13 Days in October 1962 Aflevering 2

The Cuban Missile Crisis; The Seattle World's Fair

S1 · E3 · 16 okt. 1986

Autumn 1956 Aflevering 3

The Suez Crisis; Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign; The Ten Commandments.

S1 · E4 · 23 okt. 1986

Forty Days of Spring 1970 Aflevering 4

Invasion of Cambodia; Kent State shootings; Student Strike; Apollo 13; COINTELPRO; release of the films M*A*S*H and Patton; development of the first microprocessors

S1 · E5 · 30 okt. 1986

Halloween, 1938 Aflevering 5

S1 · E6 · 6 nov. 1986

Breaking Barriers 1954 Aflevering 6

Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine; The Army-McCarthy Hearings; The first hydrogen bomb; Brown v. Board of Education

S1 · E7 · 4 dec. 1986

Together And Apart 1943 Aflevering 7

The home front; The Detroit race riot of 1943.

S1 · E8 · 11 dec. 1986

Pursuit Of Power Autumn 1973 Aflevering 8

The Yom Kippur War; The OPEC oil embargo; Women's rights movement; The Riggs-King tennis match

S1 · E9 · 18 dec. 1986

All Shook Up Autumn 1957 Aflevering 9

School desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas; Sputnik; American Bandstand; Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon and the US Open; West Side Story

S1 · E11 · 8 jan. 1987

Inner Struggles Autumn 1975 Aflevering 11

Patty Hearst; assassination attempts on Gerald Ford by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Sarah Jane Moore; Ali/Frazier III; Disco.

S1 · E12 · 15 jan. 1987

Fear And Frustration Winter 1952 Aflevering 12

The election of Dwight D. Eisenhower; the Red Scare; the McCarran-Walter Act.

S1 · E13 · 22 jan. 1987

Summer 1939 Aflevering 13

The New York World's Fair; The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind; "God Bless America".[

S1 · E16 · 19 feb. 1987

Gone With The Wind 1939 Aflevering 16

Gone With The Wind

S1 · E18 · 5 mrt. 1987

Up Against The Wall Summer 1961 Aflevering 18

The Berlin Wall; Mickey Mantle's and Roger Maris' pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record; the Baby Boom; Newton Minow's Wasteland Speech; the Freedom Rides; folk music

S1 · E20 · 16 apr. 1987

Cover Stories Spring 1960 Aflevering 20

Francis Gary Powers; Student protests at Berkeley; Elvis Presley leaves the Army

S1 · E21 · 23 apr. 1987

Period of Adjustment Autumn 1946 Aflevering 21

Soldiers return home from Europe following World War II; the G.I. Bill; sweeping Republican victories in both the House and Senate

S1 · E22 · 30 apr. 1987

Speaking Out Summer 1963 Aflevering 22

John F. Kennedy's Ich bin ein Berliner speech in West Berlin; Kennedy vs. George Wallace over desegregating the University of Alabama

S1 · E23 · 7 mei 1987

Duels In The Sun Campaign 1952 Aflevering 23

The Soviet Union competes at its first Olympics

S1 · E24 · 14 mei 1987

One Day April 12, 1961 Aflevering 24

April 12, 1961; Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth.

S1 · E25 · 21 mei 1987

Long Winter, Short Spring 1937 Aflevering 25

S1 · E26 · 28 mei 1987

Dangerous Assumptions: Spring 1953 Aflevering 26