Old Friends...New Friends

Old Friends...New Friends was an award-winning 1978 program produced for PBS. This primetime, documentary-style program for adults featured host Fred Rogers interviewing various individuals "about their search for meaning in life."[1] Filmed and recorded on location, the main focus of Old Friends...New Friends was the difference individuals can make in the lives of others. A total of twenty episodes were produced.

Episodes

101 - Hoagy Carmichael - Songmaker

102 - Father William Wasson - Padre

103 - Helen Hayes - First Lady of American Theater, Millie Jewett - Madaket Millie

104 - Milton Berle - Uncle Mitie and the Whiz

105 - Memories

106 - Leslie Frost Ballantine - A Poet's Daughter, John Jackson - Blues Singer

107 - Commencements

201 - Lee Strasberg - Actor's Actor

202 - Willie Stargell - Baseball Superstar

203 - Nancy Acosta - Barrio Teacher

204 - John Carradine and Sons - A Hollywood Family

205 - Dr. Jerry Jampolsky - The Healing Power of Love

206 - Edgar Tolson - Appalachian Woodcarver

207 - Ruth Ellen Patton - The General's Daughter, Helen Ross - Pioneer Phychoanalyst

208 - Senator John Heinz - Politics and the Family

209 - Orville Harrison - Prison Counselor, Chris Chirdon - First Grader

210 - Michelle Knight and Kim Lemon - Two Young Gymnasts

211 - Lorin Hollander - Inner Rhythms

212 - Tom Snyder, Hugh Downs, Susan Stamberg - The Interviewers

213 - Tom Kottle Ph.D. - Psychologist and Risk Taker

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