CNN - The Seventies (2015) Part 1 Television Gets Real
At the end of the decade, Richard Nixon was the newly elected President, there was still a war in Vietnam, and the Beatles remained the biggest rock & roll band in the world.
So much of what began in the 1960s only fully developed in the 1970s. The seeds may have been planted but they didn't truly begin to bear fruit until the subsequent decade.
We knew we would have to continue the story.
In each decade, there are events and individuals unique to the time that beg further exploration
Part 1 Television Gets Real
A look at how television changed during the 1970s with a new sophistication in TV programming, unique new formats, and the politics, culture, and historic event that created shows like Saturday Night Live, and Monday Night Football.
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