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turmoil. >> the 60s are over, dad. >> michael in the foul line, a shot, good. >> we intend to cover all the news come all the time. we wont be signing off until we are all dead. >> isnt that special? >> any tool for expression will ring outpost both the best and worst of us and television has been there. >> they dont pay me enough to deal with animals like this. >> people are no longer embarrassed. >> we have seen the news, and it is us. clark: slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappea...

its a time of enormous turmoil. >> shut up in here. >> the 60s are over, dad. >> heres michael at the foul line, a shot on ehlo. good! >> [ laughs ] >> we intend to cover all the news all the time. we wont be signing off until the world ends. >> isnt that special? >> any tool for human expression will bring out both the best and the worst in us, and television has been that. >> they dont pay me enough to deal with animals like this. >> people are no longer embarrassed to admit they wat...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! >> as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. >> more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? its televisions primetime prairie potboiler "dallas." >> a move like that will destroy all of ewi...

♪ ♪ slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! >> as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. >> more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? its televisions primetime prairie potboiler "dallas." >> a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil...

television. >> we have seen the news, and it is us. ♪ ♪ slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! >> as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. >> more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? its televisions primetime prairie potboiler "dallas...

embarrassed to admit they watch television. >> hello. >> people used to say i was there. now they say i watch it on television. ♪ slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. >> happy new year! >> as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape nine out of ten watching one of only three networks. >> more than 30 million people are aducked to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? its telev...

will bring out both the best and worst in us. and television has been that. >> they dont pay me enough to deal with animals like this. >> people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. >> we have seen the news, and it is us. ♪ ♪ slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! >> as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watchin...

>> there was a lot of excitement connected to sports in the 80s. you used to have to depend on the five minutes at the end of your local newscast. there just had not been enough, you know? it was a whole network of sports. >> there is is one place you need to go for all of the names and games making sports news. espn sports center. >> what happens in the 1980s is that sports becomes a tv show. and what are tv shows built around? characters. >> you cant be serious, man. you cannot be serious. >> ...

>> theres just a lot of excitement connected to sports in the 80s. you used to have to depend on the five minutes at the end of your local newscast. there just hadnt been enough, you know? give us a whole network of sports. >> theres just one place you need to go for all the names and games making sports news -- espn "sportscenter." >> what happens in the 1980s is sports becomes a tv show, and what are tv shows built around? theyre built around characters. >> you cant be serious, man. you cannot...

>> what happens in the 1980s is sports becomes a tv show. and what are tv shows built around? theyre built around characters. >> you cant be serious, man. you cannot be serious! you got the absolute pits of the world, you know that? >> mcenroe, the perfect villain. the new yorker that people loved to hate. borg, the cool swede, never giving any emotion away. >> what tennis really wants is to get its two best players playing over and over again in the final. whether they are john mcenroe and bjor...