- Six-part series of the evolution of film, television, broadcast journalism, and impacts on perception of world events
- Journalist profiles include: Edward R. Murrow, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite

- Host: Eleanor Roosevelt, co-host: Marya Mannes, Interviewees: Newton Minow (Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission), John F. White (president of the National Education Television and Radio Center), Irving Gitlin (executive producer, Creative Projects, NBC)
- Panel considers whether the television of the future will be a wasteland of mediocre programming or a vital conduit of culture
- Public policy issues in the 1950s-1960s