ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE: MARY FISHER: A PILGRIM'S PROGRESS (TV)
Summary
One in this series of nightly news programs. In this program, Mary Fisher, a heterosexual female who contracted HIV from her former husband, discusses her pilgrimage to spread information about AIDS. Highlights of this program include Mary Fisher's discussion of the following topics: her decision to go public with her disease; helping teenagers to become compassionate; teaching the facts about AIDS; the people she meets during her travels; what motivates her to keep going; connecting with AIDS communities around the country; the role of the church; accepting what she cannot change; the effects of AIDS on the lives of her two sons; her art work; and her former husband's death. Also included are clips of Mary Fisher at the Republican Convention, with her children, talking with teenagers, comforting a twelve year old who has AIDS, visiting an AIDS victim in the hospital, talking with her father, and at her husband's memorial service. Includes commercials, promos, and public service announcements.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, 1997.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: October 1, 1993 11:35 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:29:57
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:34163
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease) in children
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1980-
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - AEtna insurance retirement fund
- TV - Commercials - Cadillac DeVille automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Discover credit card
- TV - Commercials - Ford automobiles
- TV - Commercials - IBM computers
- TV - Commercials - Mercedes-Benz automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Merrill Lynch brokerage retirement fund
- TV - PSAs - American Red Cross
- TV - PSAs - Education Excellence Partnership
- TV - PSAs - National Drug Abuse Dept. of Health and Human Services: AIDS
- TV - Promos - "ABC News"
- TV - Promos - "ABC News: Day1one"
- TV - Promos - "ABC News: This Week with David Brinkley"
- TV - Promos - "ABC Sports: College Football"
- TV - Promos - "ABC in Concert"
- TV - Promos - "NYPD Blue"
CREDITS
- Tom Bettag … Executive Producer
- Mark Nelson … Senior Producer
- C. Scott Willis … Senior Producer
- Lisa Koenig … Producer
- David Kennerly … Producer, Camera
- Ted Koppel … Anchor
- Mary Fisher … Guest