Television (TV Series)
The Promise of Television (1988)
Full Cast & Crew
Directed by
| Jack Sameth | ||
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
| Michael Winship | ... | (written by) |
Cast (in credits order)
| Edwin Newman | ... | Self - Host | |
| Bill Moyers | ... | Self | |
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John F. White | ... | Self |
| David L. Wolper | ... | Self (as David Wolper) | |
| David Attenborough | ... | Self | |
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James Comer | ... | Self (as James P. Comer) |
| Barbara Corday | ... | Self | |
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Peggy Charren | ... | Self |
| Fran Allison | ... | Self | |
| Joan Ganz Cooney | ... | Self | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Kathleen Battle | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Leonard Bernstein | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| William F. Buckley | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| LeVar Burton | ... | Kunta Kinte (archive footage) | |
| Richard Burton | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Joseph Campbell | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Diahann Carroll | ... | Julia Baker (archive footage) | |
| Pau Casals | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Pablo Casals) | |
| Bill Cosby | ... | Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (archive footage) | |
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Abba Eban | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Suzanne Farrell | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Benny Goodman | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Martha Graham | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Richard Heffner | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Eric Hoffer | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Billie Holiday | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Vladimir Horowitz | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Robert Keeshan | ... | Captain Kangaroo | |
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James Levine | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Robert MacNeil | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Peter Martins | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Ali Mazrui | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Joan Miró | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Rita Moreno | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Edward R. Murrow | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Reinhold Niebuhr | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Geoffrey Owens | ... | Elvin Tibideaux (archive footage) | |
| Phylicia Rashad | ... | Clair Huxtable (archive footage) | |
| Dan Rather | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Paul Reubens | ... | Pee-Wee Herman | |
| Fred Rogers | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Artur Rubinstein | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Bertrand Russell | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Carl Sagan | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Andrés Segovia | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Lesley Stahl | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Arturo Toscanini | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Mike Wallace | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Ethel Waters | ... | Beulah (archive footage) | |
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Rebecca West | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Elie Wiesel | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Tom Wolfe | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Produced by
| Susan Kim | ... | producer |
| Ann Leifeste | ... | associate producer |
| Michael Winship | ... | producer |
Music by
| Bob Christianson | ||
Editing by
| David Pentecost | ||
Sound Department
| Ken Hahn | ... | sound mixer |
Additional Crew
| Beth Harrison | ... | production manager |
| Susan McLaughlin | ... | production assistant |
| Andrea Sheen | ... | series consultant |