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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 won't be signing off until we are all dead. >> isn't that special? >> any tool for expression will ring outpost both the best and worst of us and television has been there. >> they don't 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 disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. slowly but surely, the 1970s ar...

clark: slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! [ cheers and applause ] auletta: as you begin the '80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people were watching ononly one of f three netwtwork. more thahan 30 millilion peope are addicted to o it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it's television's prime-time, prairie pot boiler, "dallas." bobby:y: a move lilike thatl deststroy all ofof ewing , and it'l'll ruin our familyly name. i assure y yo...

free text l0 to three-to-one, three-to-one today, i hanako montgomery in tokyo and this jensen: it's a time of enormous turmoil. shut up in here. the '60s are over dad. durham: here's michael at the foul line, a shot on ehlo. -good! -yeah! ha-ha! turner: we intend to cover all the news all the time. we won't be signing off until the world ends. isn't that special? any tool for human expression will bring out the best and the worst in us, and television has been that. they don't pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch televisi...

That's okay, they do. [ cheers and applause ] there's no trouble on the set. there is no trouble on the set. well, we have a very volatile relationship. there is a hate/love element to it. easy come, easy go! ha! burrows: the flirtations were great, and bruce and cybill were great. glenn caron kept them apart for a long time. and bravo to him. bianculli: what they did was they took the sam and diane dynamic from "cheers" and escalated it. "cheers" was, "will they or won't they?" "moonlighting" was, "do they even want to?" stay away from me. here i come. but i don't want you. i never wanted you...

A kind of an electronic confessional where guests are willing to expose painful and sometimes embarrassing aspects of their lives quite readily to millions of viewers. bianculli: at the beginning of the decade, we get the dominance of phil donahue. and that's sort of a maturation of women's issues. and he seemed to talk to them, in the audience, he seemed to talk to them through the tv screen. i'm glad you called. kiss the kids. [ laughter ] we'll be back in just a moment. if you look at the body of work we've had, you know, you're gonna see the '80s there. i'm not here to say you're wrong, bu...