Remember When

A warm, gently nostalgic clip show that ambles through old footage, feeling like flipping through a beloved family scrapbook with a genial host.

Created by

Bruce Cohn

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Dick Cavett

Overview

HBO's eight-part monthly series recalls the places, the people and the events relevant to eight major strands in America's cultural and social fabric -- cowboys, radio, transportation, sex, journalism, sports, inventions and advertising -- via newsreel clips, period music, theatrical movie sequences, and on-location shootings. Host Dick Cavett steps in and out of historic scenes in this follow-up to his earlier HBO series entitled Time Was.

How it feels

Warm, earnest, whimsical and melancholic. Measured and easy to follow.

About

Memory, media, sport, technology

Content

Mild violence and sexual content. No gore or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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