BLACK JOURNAL {JOCKEY RONNY TANNER} {SERIES PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
One in this news magazine series. The premiere of this series, which features stories related to the black American experience. This program examines some of the contemporary issues facing the black community, and profiles several of its public figures. The program includes the following segments: "Class Day Address," in which Coretta Scott King addresses Harvard's graduating class; "Press," which gives a history of the Negro press, with commentary provided by C. Gerald Frazer of The New York Times; "Profile of a Jockey," featuring jockey Ronny Tanner; "Black Panthers," featuring Black Panther leader Huey Newton; "Mass Media Satire," a satiric sketch on television executives starring Godfrey Cambridge; and "New Breed Fashions," "Students," and "Poor People's Campaign." (This series also aired on PBS from 1970 to May 1977.)
Details
- NETWORK: WNDT-TV (New York, NY) / NET National Educational Television / PBS forerunner
- DATE: June 12, 1968 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:59:03
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T86:0004
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Blacks - Social Conditions; Blacks in horse racing; Blacks in mass media; Blacks - Politics and suffrage; Blacks - Youth; Horse racing; Sports; African-American Collection - News/Talk; African-American Collection - Sports; African-American Collection - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: WNDT-TV (New York, NY) - TV series, 1968-1969
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- A. H. Perlmutter … Executive Producer
- Ann Delaney … Producer, For "Class Day Address"
- Horace Jenkins … Producer, For "Class Day Address" , For "Poor People's Campaign
- Ned Schnurman … Producer, For "Class Day Address"
- Morton Silverstein … Producer, Writer, For "Students"
- Michael Scott Goldbaum … Producer, Writer, For "Students"
- Lynne Littman … Producer, Writer, For "Students"
- Charles Hobson … Producer, For "Press"
- Kent Garrett … Producer, Writer, For "New Breed Fashions"
- Philip Burton … Producer, Writer, For "Profile of a Jockey", For "Black Panthers"
- Barbara Gordon … Producer, For "Mass Media Satire"
- Marvin Schlenker … Director
- Peter Downey … Director, For "Class Day Address"
- Phil Ruskin … Director, For "Mass Media Satire"
- Godfrey Cambridge … Director, Writer, Written and staged by, For "Mass Media Satire"
- J. J. Barry … Director, Writer, Written and staged by, For "Mass Media Satire"
- Sid Grossfield … Director, Writer, Written and staged by, For "Mass Media Satire"
- Hank Johnson … Conductor, Theme music composed and conducted by, Theme Music by
- Impulse Records … Music by, For "New Breed Fashions"
- Chico Hamilton … Music by, For "New Breed Fashions"
- John Adams … Music (Misc. Credits), Music coordinated by
- Lou House … Host
- William Greaves … Host
- Ponchitta Pierce … Reporter, For "Class Day Address"
- Earl Caldwell … Reporter, For "Poor People's Campaign"
- C. Gerald Frazer … Commentator/Critic, For "Press"
- Coretta Scott King … Speaker, For "Class Day Address"
- Huey Newton
- Ronald E. Tanner