Time Was...

Host Dick Cavett moves in and out of time with an innovative film technique, revisiting the 1920s - a time of speakeasies, jazz, flappers and ballyhoo. Bigger, brasher and bolder equalled better, and the Time Was... the '20s.

The second of HBO's nostalgic, entertainming, and exclusive six-part series focuses on the decade that began in a national depression and moved to the national "escape" as the entertainment industry captured American's energies. The '30s: radio in it's heyday, Lou Gehrig at bat, Europe at war, and much of America on bread lines. Host Dick Cavett takes you back in time with classic newsreel footage, gangsters on and off-screen, jitterbugs, FDR, and the New Deal.

Episode three of HBO's exclusive rememberance of the days past dramatizes the ways an innocent nation came of age. Host Dick Cavett takes you from Pearl Harbor to Dunkrirk to Hiroshima - to a stroll with General Doguas MacArthur as he wades ashore in the Philippines. D-Day, V-J Day - and Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante, Joe DiMaggio - much more. Fast-paced, informative, entertainining, nd nostalgic - the "Time Was" the 1940s.

Another fascinating glance back in this exclusive HBO series. This time with full reflection - the advent of television - and how it changed the face of the world. Once again Dick Cavett is your host as we remember: Senator Joe McCarthy - Nixon's "Checkers" speech - the Korean War - the start of the "space race" and the beginnings of the fight for Civil Rights. Ike. Milton Berle. Willy Mays. Marilyn and Marlon and Elvis. Everything as it was in the Fifties.

One more piece from the picture of the past in this exclusive HBO series hosted by Dick Cavett. From the "Camelot" days of JFK to the conservatism of Nixon when policies at home were attacked and unrest was nationwide. The decade when an articulate, disillusioned and challenging young generation surfaced. Vietnam. The Bay of Pigs. Assassinations. Riots. The Beatles. Woodstock. The Twist. Women's lib. Man's first step on the moon. And it all was... in the Sixties.

The final segment of HBO's exclusive series delving into the decades past. This one zeroes in on a nation disillusioned, divided, and in shock. Watergate. The resignation of a president. Vietnam, Patty Hearst, the rise of cults. Positive action towards peace in the Middle East. And the lighter moments like the Bicentennial celebration, the discos, jogging, and the digital boom. The CBs. Science-fiction flicks. Videotape. And it all happened... in the Seventies.