According to the Manifold Productions official website: "These films are an updated version of the award-winning series broadcast October 17 and 18, 1988, as part of PBS's 1988 election coverage: AMERICA'S POLITICAL PARTIES, Part One: The Democrats: A Quarter Century of Change, 1960 to 1988 and Part Two: The Republicans: Before and After Reagan, 1960 to 1988."