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1968, the summer before junior high school and i don't mind saying i was a pretty good athlete. >> "the wonder years" was a guy in modern times looking back on his childhood. that in itself is not new but "the wonder years" did it with the wit and the music. and it was brilliantly written and a great performance by that entire young cast. >> hey, steve -- my baby brother and girlfriend have found each other. >> she's not my girlfriend. >> kevin arnold has to cope with timeless problems growing up during one of the most turbulent times that we've known. >> kevin arnold is just a regular kid exc...

The spirit of god moved upon the face of the water and god said, let there be light, and there was light. god saw the light, and it was good. from the crew of apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, merry christmas and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. >> what a time. the mission was to check the surface of the moon to find the right spot for the first lunar landing by the apollo 11 astronauts. that happened, as you might remember, july of 1969. >> absolutely unbelievable. seeing that you can't imagine how powerful that was. >> what an iconic time in america, and the w...

>> kevin arnold has to cope with all the timeless problems of growing up during one of the most turbulent times we have known. >> kevin arnold is a kid in the 1960s and he's not aware in many of the events, and one of the episodes the whole family is watching apollo 8 take off, but i am sitting there and trying to call a girl. >> and everybody remembers the ending, the first kiss, and the song they play is "when a man loves a woman," and that moment seems so pure and real. ♪ ♪ when a man loves a woman ♪ can't keep his mind on nothing else ♪ ♪ >> the tone is about rebellion and about ...

Each other with a spacecraft on the very top with three guys in it. and you knew that that sucker was going someplace. it had a purpose in mind and it was going someplace. >> you get to december of 1968 and frank borman and jim lovell and bill anders have actually been training to fly the first flight around the moon. >> we kind of feel that this flight set the pace to begin the in earnest our lunar landing apollo program. >> the countdown to liftoff for apollo 8 is now t-minus 50 minutes and counting. this will be the first manned flight of the saturn 5, the largest rocket man has ever built....

Three, two, one, zero. we have commenced -- we have liftoff. we have cleared the tower. >> oh, there's the rumble in our building. it looks good. it looks like a good flight. this building is shaking under us. our camera platform is shaking. but what a beautiful flight. >> we interrupt this program to present another in a series of onboard television transmissions from the space cap you will brought to you by tang, the breakfast drink of champions. >> apollo 8, 175,450 miles from earth and about to be pulled in by the moon's gravity. the astronauts have now truly left the earth and its gravity...