Meeting of Minds
Meeting of Minds is a tv series, created by Steve Allen, that aired on PBS.
The show featured guests who played significant roles. Guests could interact with host Steve Allen and one another, discussing philosophy, religion, history, science, and other topics. It had been similar to this tv series Witness to Yesterday, created by Arthur Voronka, that preceded Meeting by three decades into the air . Before Meeting Of Minds premiered steve Allen appeared on a 1976 episode of Witness to Yesterday as George Gershwin, 1 year.
As was possible, the real words of the historical characters were used. The show had been fully scripted, yet the scripts had been carefully crafted to provide the appearance of spontaneous debate. Guests included: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Paine, Francis Bacon, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Daniel O'Connell, Catherine II, along with Oliver Cromwell.
Each episode would be put into two parts, broadcast with all or most the guests introduced across the course of the very first part, and also the discussions continuing in to the 2nd part. An overall total of 24 episodes are made.