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45/85

Field	Value
genre	Television documentary
based_on
writer	{{Plainlist
director	Roger Goodman
presenter	{{Plainlist
starring
country	United States
language	English
num_seasons
num_episodes	1
executive_producer	Av Westin
producer	{{Plainlist
editor	{{Plainlist
location	New York, NY
runtime
company	ABC News
channel	ABC
released
related	Our World

David Bohrman
Peter Jennings
Ted Koppel
Eleanor Prescott
Pete Simmons
Ted Koppel
Peter Jennings
Mark Foley
Edward Hersh
Larry Alperr
Mark Stephen Bogni
Robert J. Brandt
Walter Essenfeld
James Sutton

45/85 is an ABC News television documentary. It aired on September 18, 1985. The three-hour program combined archive film and television footage with new interviews to document post-World War II history, focusing especially on the Cold War. That special was produced by Av Westin, who also produced Our World.

Ted Koppel and Peter Jennings were the co-anchors. The executive producer of the broadcast was Av Westin and it was written by Koppel, Jennings and senior producer Pete Simmons. 45/85 featured interviews with then President Ronald Reagan, as well as interviews with every living former President, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. In a stylistic innovation, 45/85 confined itself in its other interviews to people who were eyewitnesses and participants of the events they described, rather than historians or "experts."

The success of 45/85 led ABC to create the documentary series Our World in 1986.

References

Holston, Noel. (1986-07-23). "Ellerbee is Just What 'Our World' Needs". Orlando Sentinel.
Paynter, Susan. (1986-10-17). "Our World Draws a Measly 5.5 Million, but So What? Say Hosts". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Schwed, Mark. (1987-06-10). "Ellerbee's Down, But Not Out". San Francisco Chronicle.

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