Our World (2025)
Our World is an American television news series that ran for 26 episodes, from September 25, 1986 to May 28, 1987. The show was anchored by Linda Ellerbee and Ray Gandolf. Each episode of the series examined, through the use of archival film and television footage, one short period in American history. Our World aired on ABC. Our World grew out of an earlier ABC News special called 45/85, whose producer, Avram Westin, would go on to produce Our World. Each episode was produced on a budget of $350,000, less than half of the budget of a typical hour of prime time programming at the time. Our World premiered to indifferent critical response but as the series progressed critics became effusive with their praise. Despite being critically well received and profitable for the network, Our World performed poorly in the Nielsen ratings, as its first half-hour was programmed against the extremely popular The Cosby Show. ABC canceled the show after one season. Ellerbee tried to move the series to PBS but was unsuccessful.
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Seasons
Season 1
Episodes season 1
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1x1
Summer of 69
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1x5
Halloween, 1938
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1x10
Secrets and surprises - fall, 1948
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1x14
Winds of change - winter, 1968
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1x15
A crowded room - fall, 1949
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1x17
Between the lines - summer, 1972
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1x19
Liberation summer - 1944
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1x25
Long winter, short spring 1937
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1x26
Dangerous assumptions: spring 1953
