American Experience season 1
| American Experience | |
|---|---|
| Season 1 | |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Release | |
| Original network | PBS |
| Original release | October 4, 1988 – January 17, 1989 |
| Season chronology | |
Season one of the television program American Experience originally aired on the PBS network in the United States on October 4, 1988 and concluded on January 17, 1989. The season contained 16 episodes and began with the film The Great San Francisco Earthquake.
Episodes
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Categories | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Great San Francisco Earthquake"[1] | Tom Weidlinger | The Natural Environment | October 4, 1988 |
| 2 | 2 | "Radio Bikini"[2] | Robert Stone | Technology, War | October 11, 1988 |
| 3 | 3 | "Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo"[3] | Martha Sandlin | Biographies, Native American History | October 18, 1988 |
| 4 | 4 | "Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream"[4][a] | Frank J. DeMeo & Anthony Potter | Biographies | October 25, 1988 |
| 5 | 5 | "The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter"[5] | Connie Field | Popular Culture, War | November 1, 1988 |
| 6 | 6 | "Do You Mean There are Still Real Cowboys?"[6] | Jon Blair | Popular Culture, The American West | November 8, 1988 |
| 7 | 7 | "Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close"[7] | Robert Drew | Civil Rights, Politics | November 15, 1988 |
| 8 | 8 | "Geronimo and the Apache Resistance"[8] | Neil Goodwin | Native American History | November 22, 1988 |
| 9 | 9 | "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited"[9] | Carol Bell | Popular Culture | November 29, 1988 |
| 10 | 10 | "That Rhythm, Those Blues"[10] | George T. Nierenberg | Civil Rights, Popular Culture | December 6, 1988 |
| 11 | 11 | "The Radio Priest"[11] | Irv Drasnin | Popular Culture | December 13, 1988 |
| 12 | 12 | "Hearts and Hands"[12] | Pat Ferrero | Biographies | December 20, 1988 |
| 13 | 13 | "Views of a Vanishing Frontier"[13] | Craig B. Fisher | Native American History, The Natural Environment | December 27, 1988 |
| 14 | 14 | "Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings"[14] | Patchy Wheatley | Biographies | January 3, 1989 |
| 15 | 15 | "The World That Moses Built"[15] | Edward Gray & Mark Obenhaus | Biographies, Technology | January 10, 1989 |
| 16 | 16 | "Sins of Our Mothers"[16] | Matthew Collins | Biographies | January 17, 1989 |
Notes
- ^ The film episode Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream is sometimes listed in news reports as Eric Sevareid: Not So Wild a Dream or as Eric Sevareid's "Not So Wild a Dream".
References
- ^ "American Experience | The Great San Francisco Earthquake". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | Radio Bikini". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | Do You Mean There are Still Real Cowboys?". PBS. Retrieved Jul 18, 2015.
- ^ "American Experience | Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | Geronimo and the Apache Resistance". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | That Rhythm, Those Blues". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | The Radio Priest". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | Hearts and Hands". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | Views of a Vanishing Frontier". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | The World That Moses Built". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.
- ^ "American Experience | Sins of Our Mothers". PBS. Retrieved Dec 14, 2012.