Assignment America

Overview

A weekly series with alternating interviewer: Harvard psycho-historian Doris Kerns; poet, playwright and author Maya Angelou; syndicated columnist George Will and populist chronicler Studs Terkel. Each program featured one of the four in a 30-minute film or videotape report on someone who contributed to the ideas and issues of America.

Network

• Thirteen WNET

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

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  Maya Angelou

  4 eps

• Doris Kerns

  4 eps

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  George Will

  4 eps

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  Studs Terkel

  4 eps

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  Ray Bradbury

  1 ep

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