Issues and Answers

*Issues and Answers*
Issues and Answers
Presented by	Howard K. Smith ; Bob Clark
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	November 27, 1960 –; November 8, 1981
Related
	This Week (successor)

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Issues and Answers is a weekly Sunday morning talk show telecast by the American Broadcasting Company network from November 27, 1960^[1] to November 8, 1981. At the time, Sunday morning talk shows as they are now carried actually aired in mid-afternoons on Sundays before sports divisions had taken over the time slot in full, and the network distributed the show either live airing or for later broadcast to its affiliates (though interviews were often recorded in the later part of the week on Thursdays or Fridays).

Issues and Answers was ABC's response to NBC'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, which now features George Stephanopoulos as moderator.^[4]

References

^ "The politicians can't say 'no' to a lady" (PDF). Programming. Broadcasting. Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications Inc. July 3, 1961. p. 70. Retrieved December 28, 2024. The show went on the air last November.
^ IMDB entry
^ "Peggy Whedon" (PDF). Fates & Fortunes. Broadcasting. Vol. 104, no. 3. Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications Inc. January 17, 1983. p. 141. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
^ O'Neal Parker, Lonnae (September 25, 1996). "Margaret Whedon Dies at 80". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 28, 2024.

External links

Issues and Answers at IMDb

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[1] "The politicians can't say 'no' to a lady" (PDF). Programming. Broadcasting. Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications Inc. July 3, 1961. p. 70. Retrieved December 28, 2024. The show went on the air last November.

[2] IMDB entry

[3] "Peggy Whedon" (PDF). Fates & Fortunes. Broadcasting. Vol. 104, no. 3. Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications Inc. January 17, 1983. p. 141. Retrieved December 28, 2024.

[4] O'Neal Parker, Lonnae (September 25, 1996). "Margaret Whedon Dies at 80". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 28, 2024.

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