Issues and Answers was a weekly TV news program that was telecast by the American Broadcasting Company network from November 1960[1] to November 1981. The series was distributed to the ABC affiliate stations on Sunday afternoons for either live broadcast or video taped for later broadcast.
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Presented by | Howard K. Smith Bob Clark |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
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Network | ABC |
Release | 1960 (1960) – 1981 (1981) |
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This Week |
Issues and Answers was ABC's response to such TV programsasNBC's Meet the Press and CBS's Face the Nation. It featured TV reporters interviewing selected newsmakers of the contemporary time period – mostly government officials, both domestic and foreign. Unlike the other networks' news-interview TV programs, which featured newspaper and radio reporters along with TV correspondents, Issues and Answers more commonly featured only ABC News correspondents.[2]
The program's theme song for many years was the third movement (the "Song of the Blacksmith") of the Second Suite in F for Military Band (Op. 28, No. 2) by Gustav Holst.
For its entire run it was produced by Margaret "Peggy" Whedon, one of ABC's first female correspondents.[3]
Issues and Answers was canceled in 1981, succeeded by the 60-minute This Week with David Brinkley.
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