Television (TV Series)
The Promise of Television (1988)
Full Cast & Crew
Directed by
Jack Sameth |
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Michael Winship | ... | (written by) |
Cast (in credits order)
Edwin Newman | ... | Self - Host | |
Bill Moyers | ... | Self | |
John F. White | ... | Self | |
David L. Wolper | ... | Self (as David Wolper) | |
David Attenborough | ... | Self | |
James Comer | ... | Self (as James P. Comer) | |
Barbara Corday | ... | Self | |
Peggy Charren | ... | Self | |
Fran Allison | ... | Self | |
Joan Ganz Cooney | ... | Self | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Mikhail Baryshnikov | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Kathleen Battle | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Leonard Bernstein | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
William F. Buckley | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
LeVar Burton | ... | Kunta Kinte (archive footage) | |
Richard Burton | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Joseph Campbell | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Diahann Carroll | ... | Julia Baker (archive footage) | |
Pau Casals | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Pablo Casals) | |
Bill Cosby | ... | Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (archive footage) | |
Abba Eban | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Suzanne Farrell | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Benny Goodman | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Martha Graham | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Richard Heffner | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Eric Hoffer | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Billie Holiday | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Vladimir Horowitz | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Robert Keeshan | ... | Captain Kangaroo | |
James Levine | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Robert MacNeil | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Peter Martins | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Ali Mazrui | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Joan Miró | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Rita Moreno | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Edward R. Murrow | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Reinhold Niebuhr | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Georgia O'Keeffe | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
J. Robert Oppenheimer | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Geoffrey Owens | ... | Elvin Tibideaux (archive footage) | |
Phylicia Rashad | ... | Clair Huxtable (archive footage) | |
Dan Rather | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Paul Reubens | ... | Pee-Wee Herman | |
Fred Rogers | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Artur Rubinstein | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Bertrand Russell | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Carl Sagan | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Andrés Segovia | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Lesley Stahl | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Arturo Toscanini | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Mike Wallace | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Ethel Waters | ... | Beulah (archive footage) | |
Rebecca West | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Elie Wiesel | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Tom Wolfe | ... | Self (archive footage) |
Produced by
Susan Kim | ... | producer |
Ann Leifeste | ... | associate producer |
Michael Winship | ... | producer |
Music by
Bob Christianson |
Editing by
David Pentecost |
Sound Department
Ken Hahn | ... | sound mixer |
Additional Crew
Beth Harrison | ... | production manager |
Susan McLaughlin | ... | production assistant |
Andrea Sheen | ... | series consultant |