List of episodes of the series «ABC Close-Up!»

  • Seasons count: 3
  • Episodes count: 51
Cast the First Stone
Release date: 9/27/1960

Cast the First Stone

  • Episode number: 1
Paradise in Chains
Release date: 10/13/1960

Paradise in Chains

  • Episode number: 2
What's the Proposition?
Release date: 11/3/1960

What's the Proposition?

  • Episode number: 3
The Money Raisers
Release date: 11/25/1960

The Money Raisers

  • Episode number: 4
Yanki No!
Release date: 12/7/1960

Yanki No!

  • Episode number: 5
  • Episode description:
    Tracing anti-U.S. sentiment as it builds in Latin America, Yanki No! juxtaposes the candid humanity of life in a Caracas slum with the actions of diplomats and political figures, including Cuba’s Fidel Castro addressing a rally of one million people.
Featherbedding?
Release date: 12/9/1960

Featherbedding?

  • Episode number: 6
The Red and the Black
Release date: 1/22/1961

The Red and the Black

  • Episode number: 7
X-Pilot
Release date: 2/6/1961

X-Pilot

  • Episode number: 8
  • Episode description:
    A pilot risks his life in the final test flight of the X-15 rocket-powered plane.
The Children Were Watching
Release date: 3/6/1961

The Children Were Watching

  • Episode number: 9
  • Episode description:
    Six-year-old Yolanda Gabrielle, escorted by her mother, becomes the target of the taunts of a crowd of shouting segregationists as she makes her way to school, one of the few white children to continue attending after four African-American students were admitted to her first-grade class. Tessie Prevost, also 6, receives the protection of U.S. Marshals to enter and leave the nearly empty school, as do the other three African-American children. The ugly crowd swarms the Gabrielle’s home after school, and Yolanda’s father comes home only to tell his wife that he’s been provoked by angry co-workers to quit his job.
Adventures on the New Frontier
Release date: 3/28/1961

Adventures on the New Frontier

  • Episode number: 10
  • Episode description:
    A portrait of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration and early days in office offers an unprecedented look inside the workings of the White House.
I Remember
Release date: 4/14/1961

I Remember

  • Episode number: 11
90 Miles to Communism
Release date: 4/18/1961

90 Miles to Communism

  • Episode number: 12
C'est la Guerre
Release date: 4/27/1961

C'est la Guerre

  • Episode number: 13
Kenya: Land of the White Ghost (Part 1)
Release date: 5/9/1961

Kenya: Land of the White Ghost (Part 1)

  • Episode number: 14
Kenya: Land of the White Ghost (Part 2)
Release date: 5/16/1961

Kenya: Land of the White Ghost (Part 2)

  • Episode number: 15
The Flabby American
Release date: 5/30/1961

The Flabby American

  • Episode number: 16
The Troubled Land
Release date: 6/13/1961

The Troubled Land

  • Episode number: 17
Our Durable Diplomats
Release date: 6/22/1961

Our Durable Diplomats

  • Episode number: 18