Season 6 · Episode 4
6-4: Donahue "The Clean Up TV Campaign"
Battle of the Network Shows · Michael Cowgill
June 27, 201957m 13s
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Show Notes
Is the caller there? Is the caller fed up with filthy TV? Well find out how people felt in 1981 as silver-haired TV talk legend Phil Donahue talks to Pastor John Hurt of the Clean Up TV Campaign and Chicago TV critic Gary Deeb. What shows did 1980s churchgoers find the most offensive? How did the Campaign actually want to clean up TV? What did the studio audience think? Plus which BOTNS favorite does Gary Deeb call a "toilet show"?