Remember When

HBO's eight-part monthly series recalls the places, the people and the events relevant to eight major strands in America's cultural and social fabric -- cowboys, radio, transportation, sex, journalism, sports, inventions and advertising -- via newsreel clips, period music, theatrical movie sequences, and on-location shootings. Host Dick Cavett steps in and out of historic scenes in this follow-up to his earlier HBO series entitled Time Was.

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Status

Ended

Original Name

Remember When

First Air Date

May 11, 1981

Last Air Date

December 7, 1981

Seasons

1

Episodes

8

Language

English

Production Companies

Bruce Cohn Productions

Networks

HBO

S01E08

The Image Makers

Dick Cavett reviews 200 years of American commercialism -- the posters and propaganda, hyping and huckstering, commercials and come-ons -- from the early colonial period through today's $54 billion advertising industry.

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