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GreatGoodWatch scoreSummary
Exhaustive 13-part survey of the television medium from its hesitant beginnings in the 1920s to the multi-million dollar extravaganzas of today and the cable and satellite technologies of the future [relative to 1985].
Good for
- Family movie night
- Friends night
- Teens
Skip it if
- You want fast pacing
Where to watch
Not streaming in any country yet.
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 74GoodWatch 77
IMDb7.4
Time to watch it all
9 h 45 min
13 episodes, about 45 min each
An episode a night: about 2 weeks.
First aired
1985
February 12, 1985
Ended 1985
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United Kingdom
24 of 42 · most episodes first
Ian HolmSelf - Narrator (voice) · 13 episodes- GGGeorge Gerbner2 episodes
Arthur C. Clarke2 episodes
Robin Day2 episodes- FWFred W. Friendly2 episodes
- HBHerbert Brodkin2 episodes
Walter Cronkite2 episodes
William Shatner2 episodes
Spike Milligan2 episodes- RCRichard Cawston2 episodes
Ken Loach2 episodes
Harold Wilson1 episode
Pamela Stephenson1 episode
David Frost1 episode
Dennis Potter1 episode- MWMary Whitehouse1 episode
Indira Gandhi1 episode- KWKurt Wagenführ1 episode
- EFElma Farnsworth1 episode
- GGGerhart Goebel1 episode
- JPJohn Pulman1 episode
Don Ohlmeyer1 episode- HGHugh Greene1 episode
- TKTaro Kimura1 episode
Directing · 2
- Leslie Woodhead Director, Producer
- Michael Beckham Director, Producer
Production · 1
- Norman Swallow Executive Producer
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