REMEMBER WHEN, II: ON THE AIR (TV)

Summary

Second in this series of eight documentaries hosted by Dick Cavett. This program examines the history of radio in America and focuses on the following topics and people: Guglielmo Marconi; David Sarnoff and the sinking of the "Titanic" in 1912; a recreation of KDKA's first broadcast, the November 20, 1920 coverage of the presidential elections; NBC: the red and blue networks; William S. Paley and CBS; Depression- era comedy; Radio City Music Hall; Jazz ("swing") on radio; the sound effects man; soap operas; radio preacher Billy Sunday; "The War of the Worlds"; the Hindenburg disaster; Floyd Gibbons and Lowell Thomas; Mayor Fiorello La Guardia reading the comics on radio; Ed Murrow; World War II; Betty Hutton broadcasting a song to the troops; "Tokyo Rose" transmitting music to the enemy; the advent of television; and radio in the 1980s.

Details

• NETWORK: HBO
• DATE: June 8, 1981 8:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:57:44
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T82:0696
• GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
• SUBJECT HEADING: Titanic (steamship); Disaster reporting; U S - Elections - 1920; Radio - History; TV - History; Radio - Technology - Sound effects; Sound effects; Jazz
• SERIES RUN: HBO - TV series, 1981
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Bruce Cohn … Producer, Director
• Marilyn Sharon … Supervising Producer
• Jeff Sinclair … Associate Producer
• Joel Wm. Westbrook … Associate Producer
• Mitchell Barry … Writer
• Rosemary Clooney … Theme Music by
• Ferdinand Jay Smith … Theme Music by
• Dick Cavett … Host
• Betty Hutton
• Lowell Thomas
• Billy Sunday
• David Sarnoff
• William S. Paley
• Fiorello La Guardia
• Edward R. Murrow
• Guglielmo Marconi
• Floyd Gibbons
• Orson Welles