Our World

S1 · E1 · Sep 25, 1986

Summer of 69 Episode 1

S1 · E2 · Oct 2, 1986

13 Days in October 1962 Episode 2

The Cuban Missile Crisis; The Seattle World's Fair

S1 · E3 · Oct 16, 1986

Autumn 1956 Episode 3

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

S1 · E4 · Oct 23, 1986

Forty Days of Spring 1970 Episode 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 · Oct 30, 1986

Halloween, 1938 Episode 5

S1 · E6 · Nov 6, 1986

Breaking Barriers 1954 Episode 6

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

S1 · E7 · Dec 4, 1986

Together And Apart 1943 Episode 7

The home front; The Detroit race riot of 1943.

S1 · E8 · Dec 11, 1986

Pursuit Of Power Autumn 1973 Episode 8

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

S1 · E9 · Dec 18, 1986

All Shook Up Autumn 1957 Episode 9

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

S1 · E11 · Jan 8, 1987

Inner Struggles Autumn 1975 Episode 11

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

S1 · E12 · Jan 15, 1987

Fear And Frustration Winter 1952 Episode 12

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

S1 · E13 · Jan 22, 1987

Summer 1939 Episode 13

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

S1 · E16 · Feb 19, 1987

Gone With The Wind 1939 Episode 16

Gone With The Wind

S1 · E18 · Mar 5, 1987

Up Against The Wall Summer 1961 Episode 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 · Apr 16, 1987

Cover Stories Spring 1960 Episode 20

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

S1 · E21 · Apr 23, 1987

Period of Adjustment Autumn 1946 Episode 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 · Apr 30, 1987

Speaking Out Summer 1963 Episode 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 · May 7, 1987

Duels In The Sun Campaign 1952 Episode 23

The Soviet Union competes at its first Olympics

S1 · E24 · May 14, 1987

One Day April 12, 1961 Episode 24

April 12, 1961; Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth.

S1 · E25 · May 21, 1987

Long Winter, Short Spring 1937 Episode 25

S1 · E26 · May 28, 1987

Dangerous Assumptions: Spring 1953 Episode 26