''Issues and Answers'' was a once-weekly

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program that was telecast by the

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network from November 1960 to November 1981. The series was distributed to the ABC affiliate stations on Sunday afternoons for either live broadcast or

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d for later broadcast. ''Issues and Answers'' was ABC's response to such

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s as

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's ''

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'' and CBS's ''

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''. It featured TV reporters interviewing selected newsmakers of the contemporary time period – mostly government officials, both domestic and foreign. Unlike the other networks' news-interview TV programs, which featured

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and

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reporters along with TV correspondents, ''Issues and Answers'' more commonly featured only

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correspondents. The program's theme song for many years was the third movement (the "Song of the Blacksmith") of the

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(Op. 28, No. 2) by

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. For its entire run it was produced by Margaret "Peggy" Whedon, one of ABC's first female correspondents. ''Issues and Answers'' was canceled in 1981, succeeded by the 60-minute '' This Week with David Brinkley''.

References

External links

''Issues and Answers'' at IMDB
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