Television
December, 1972
Out there in televisionland, where a majority of every season's programs seem designed to confirm H. L. Mencken's observation that "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public," there are flickers of light--some evidence that educational TV may be easing out of its ghetto into prime time on major networks. On November 14 on NBC, British journalist Alistair Cooke--whose chores as host-narrator of last year's BBC series about Henry VIII's wives and the reign o...
