Pioneers of THIRTEEN The ’70s – Bold and Fearless

Airing Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 9 p.m. on THIRTEEN

Featured interviews include:

• John Adams, producer & music services director, WNET 1961-2010
• Perry Miller Adato, creator & executive producer, The Originals – Women in Art
• John Alpert, independent filmmaker
• Stephen Battaglio, television historian & author
• Marylyn Berger, anchor, Special Edition/City Edition
• Dick Cavett, creator & host, The Dick Cavett Show
• Humberto Cintron, executive producer, Realidades
• Joan Ganz Cooney, originator of Sesame Street
• Ronnie Eldridge, executive producer, Woman Alive!
• Sam Gibbon, executive producer, The Electric Company
• Craig Gilbert, producer & creator, An American Family
• John J. Godfrey, supervising engineer, The TV Lab
• Jeff Greenfield, journalist & author
• Herb Holmes, director of production/labor relations, WNET 1965-2006
• Judith Jamison, principal dancer & artistic director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 1965-2011
• James Earl Jones, Oscar-nominated actor
• Virginia Kassel, creator & series producer, The Adams Chronicles
• Bill Kobin, senior vice president for programming, NET 1963-1972
• Stan Lathan, director, SOUL!
• Jim Lehrer, coordinator of news & public affairs, PBS 1972-1973; creator & anchor, The MacNeil/Lehrer Report 1975-present
• Robert MacNeil, broadcast journalist; creator & anchor, The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
• Don Mischer, director, The Great American Dream Machine & The TV Lab
• Rita Moreno, cast member, The Electric Company
• Bill Moyers, broadcast journalist; creator & anchor, Bill Moyers’ Journal
• Sheila Nevins, producer, The Great American Dream Machine
• Michael Oreskes, reporter, New York Daily News 1975-1981
• Al Perlmutter, executive producer, The Great American Dream Machine & Banks and the Poor
• Sam Pollard, independent filmmaker
• Alan Raymond, filmmaker & camera, An American Family
• Susan Raymond, filmmaker & sound, An American Family
• Morton Silverstein, writer, producer & director, Banks and the Poor
• Jac Venza, culture & arts executive producer, WNET 1962-2005
• Howard Weinberg, executive producer, The Dick Cavett Show
• Jack Willis, executive producer, The Great American Dream Machine; creator & executive producer, The 51st State
• Michael Winship, writer & publicist, WNET 1974-1979

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