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- In this animated commercial for the Canned Food Information Council, a woman in the year 3000 asks that age-old question: "What's for dinner?"
- Recreations of events and footage of actual locations combine with a narrative comprised, in part, of the words of contemporaries to present a chronicle of Hernando Cortes' conquest of Mexico in the early 16th century.
- Dean Martin and Friends roast Danny Thomas
- An aging beauty queen discovers that her fading looks no longer charm her husband's bosses and friends. Her daughter tries to tell her that she is making a public spectacle of herself, but the former "doll face" cannot part with the image of herself as a young and attractive girl.
- In 1883, a Boston newspaperman writes a detailed eyewitness account of a natural disaster -- a full day before it happens. Working in his office late one night, Henry Soames finds his concentration rocked by four momentous explosions. When he emerges from his trance, he files a sensational report about the eruption of Krakatoa, a volcano in the Dutch East Indies. The paper's editors run the story across the front page and the following morning the paper sells like hotcakes. Eager to promote his new ace reporter, the publisher is puzzled when Soames denies responsibility for the scoop -- he can't even remember where he was the night before. Word leaks out to the public, and Soames soon finds himself in the reluctant position of town seer.
- In the guise of Mr. Lucifer, a Madison Avenue executive, the devil summons all of his powers and know-how, including his attractive young assistant Hecate, to break the will and sinlessness of a young, kind, hardworking, and happily married architect named Tom Logan.
- Professional bronco rider Hoby Dunlap was acquitted of treason during the Korean War, but his efforts to enter a rodeo contest are blocked by officials who fear audiences won't want a "traitor" in the rodeo. Rodeo star Mitch Guthrie fights to support Hoby.
- Paul Westman, a candidate for president of the United States, is faced with an ethical tug-of-war over whether to offer a patronage job to a party boss in return for votes assuring the nomination. Westman grows more and more entangled in compromise until he defends an aide charged with having Communist sympathies.
- Hosted by the Rev. Andrew Young, associate director of the Youth Work Department of the National Council of Churches, this program features guests who perform and discuss jazz. Young says that pioneer jazzmen Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk contributed to the emotional language of a generation; composer David Amram plays his "Some Day Morning Will Come"; Young and critic Hentoff discuss jazz as a new language of expression for new sets of experiences; pianist Sadik Hakim plays his "Impulse"; Young and Hentoff discuss social protest and blacks as mirrored by jazz; pianist Bill Evans plays "Come Rain or Come Shine"; and David Amram, composer of MacLeish's "JB," discusses his career in jazz.
- Successful businessman Adam returns to an island where he used to live and finds it barren and poverty-stricken. The major industry, a cannery that he and his brother Will owned, had been forced out of business due to a strike in which Will was killed. Now the remaining inhabitants want to kill Adam, but he convinces them that if they work together they can rebuild the island.
- After viewing this provocative documentary, you will never look at Wikipedia the same way. Filmmakers Scott Glosserman and Nic Hill engagingly explore the history and cultural implications of one of the most traveled and referenced sites on the Internet. A whole range of opinion is expressed about the impact of Wikipedia on the archiving of learning, from interviews with founder Jimmy Wales to commentators suspicious of the site's supposed neutrality. The documentary delves into the EssJay controversy in which a Wikipedian made false claims about his academic credentials and the battle over journalist John Seigenthaler's inaccurate entry. Evenhandedly weaving multiple perspectives about the impact of Wikipedia, the film provokes a deeper conversation on how knowledge is formed and what future generations will learn about history and the world.
- One in this series of religious programs. Part one of a three-part drama about a teenage boy and girl. Opens with Van Dyke miming a boy looking in a mirror discouraged by his looks. Young explains the theme of this installment difficulty of being an awkward adolescent Sidney, a new boy in town, is going to a party, his father yells at him, Sidney gets a reputation as a clown, and takes the blame for cheating by an honor student and is expelled.
- Sidney's parents are forced to sell their home because of Sidney's expulsion from school. Patricia confesses to a school official that she, not Sidney, cheated on an exam, her family visits Sidney's family and apologizes, and Sidney is readmitted to school.