Episode list

Topics: The Eagle Has Landed (Apollo 11), Hurricane Camille, Chappaquiddick, Nixon in Vietnam, Woodstock, Mets win World Series, Alice's Restaurant, The Love Bug, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, The Wild Bunch, True Grit, Take the Money and Run, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Laugh In, Manson murders, Judy Garland dies, (no mention of Stonewall).

Topics: Cuban Missile Crisis, Seattle Worlds Fair, J.F.K., fallout shelters, discovery of DNA, Bill Dana/Jose Jimenez, The Jetsons, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Donna Reed Show, Leave It to Beaver.

Topics: Cars and interstate highways, the suburbs, Eisenhower vs Stevenson presidential election, World Series: New York Yankees vs Brooklyn Dodgers and Dale Larson pitching no-hitter, Elvis Presley, Peyton Place bestselling novel, Rock and Roll, segregation, Hungarian Revolution, Suez Canal, Huntley and Brinkley premiere, My Fair Lady on Broadway, The Ten Commandments and Giant on movie screens.

Topics: anti-war protests, Kent State shootings, invasion of Cambodia, Boeing 747, Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, Love Story by Erich Segal, midi skirts, Black Panthers, Apollo 13, 1st Earth Day, Patton, M*A*S*H, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, The Beatles break up.

Exploring the War of the Worlds scare and the lead-up to Kristallnacht in Germany.

Featuring the Army-McCarthy hearings, the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the first polio vaccine.

Autumn 1957. Little Rock High School is desegregated, Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon, "American Bandstand" thrives, "West Side Story" opens on Broadway, Sputnik is launched into space, popular books include William H. White's "The Organization Man," Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" and Nevil Shute's "On the Beach," Ford Motor Company's Edsel is a monumental failure.

A postwar baby boom begins, Alfred Kinsey explores sex, early television, the 'candy bomber' of the Berlin Airlift, and Harry Truman is a surprise winner.

As the Korean war drags on, Eisenhower is elected President and tries to stop it. The Second Red Scare has many Americans fearing Communist infiltration of the government and education. R&B music predicts the coming of Rock and Roll.

Look at the summer of 1939, including the World's Fair in New York and the releases of The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind.

The postwar housing boom creates the suburbs, the Russians explode their first nuclear bomb, television becomes popular, communists take over China, and America tries to deal with racism at home.

David O Selnick's grandiose vision takes shape as the world heads towards war.

Highlights of the time include tensions with the USSR, the baby boom continues, the Berlin Wall goes up, the Peace Corps, racial problems and Freedom Riders, Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's home run record, and more.

President Kennedy speaks out against racism and visits the Berlin Wall; the March on Washington; segregation problems continue. The USPS introduces ZIP codes, surf music and bikinis are big, and Kodak introduces their instamatic camera.

Topics include TV coverage of the Presidential campaign of 1952, the summer Olympics in Helsinki, early television programming versus the movies, and the origins of Holiday Inn,

The Great Depression continues; New Deal arts projects; a strike against General Motors changes history; radio is huge; civil war in Spain; swing music is big.

The last episode of the series looks at the Rosenberg executions, the conquering of Mount Everest, Ike and the Korean war, England's new queen, television's popularity worries big Hollywood, 'healthy' filtered cigarettes debut, and more.