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It was brilliantly written show and a great performance by that entire young cast. >> hey, steve -- looks like his baby brother and girlfriend have found each other. >> she's not my girlfriend. >> kevin arnold has to cope with all the timeless problems of growing up during one of the most turbulent times that we've known. >> kevin arnold is just like a regular kid except in the 1960s, and he's not really aware of many of the events. like in one of the episodes, the whole family is watching the apollo 8 take off, but i'm just sitting there trying to call a girl. >> the first episode of "the won...

Known. >> kevin arnold is just like a regular kid except in the 1960s, and he's not really aware of many of the events. like in one of the episodes, the whole family is watching the apollo 8 take off, but i'm just sitting there trying to call a girl. >> the first episode of "the wonder years," anybody who saw it remembers the ending where the first kiss with winnie and kevin arnold. the song they play is "when a man loves a woman." that moment seemed so pure and so real. ♪ when a man loves a woman can't keep his mind on nothing else ♪ >> the 1960s is about rebellion, about being students. ...

Four, three, two, one. zero. we have liftoff. what a beautiful flight. man perhaps on the way to the moon if all continues to go well. >> it seemed almost unbelievable the nation collectively held its breath, worrying about, are they going to make it? what happens to the astronauts, to the space program if they don't? such a miraculous thing, it's against the odds. but maybe. maybe we can make it. >> apollo, we have good picture. >> this is coming to you halfway from between the moon and the earth. we have less than 40 hours left to go to the moon. >> they actually arrived at the moon on chris...

Peace will come. ♪ it will be you and i >> apollo 7 starts the final american push to the moon. today on this flight all but finished the chance of reaching the moon by the end of next year. >> five, four -- we have ignition. >> on the basis of this spectacular success of apollo 7, it will be possible now for the next mission, that's apollo 8, three americans in orbit around the moon on christmas. i think we have some late word just arriving. i interrupt to bring this to you. this is the latest disclosure in

Merry christmas and god bless all of you. all of you on the good earth. >> god bless them. unbelievable. >> man, that made the last week of 1968 perhaps as hopeful a moment as we could have expected. >> for those of us who lived through that time, we were landing in darkness that does not last. >> apollo 8. human kind's first flight in the orbit of the moon. sure to be written on the books of history. a year of trouble and turbulence, anger and assassination, is now coming to an end in incandescent triumph. apollo 8 achieved every one of