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Frontline Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1984 - 1984
Episode 1
Crisis at General Hospital
Mon, Jan 16, 1984
Most Americans regard health care as a social responsibility undertaken for common good.
Episode 2
We Are Driven
Mon, Jan 23, 1984
The industrial might of Japan has taken US by storm as American corporations begin to adopt Japanese style of management.
Episode 3
The Old Man and the Gun
Mon, Feb 6, 1984
Frontline looks at conflict in Northern Ireland through eyes of Irish Americans who support IRA and its strategy of violence.
Episode 4
Give Me that Big Time Religion
Mon, Feb 13, 1984
Television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart's weekly ministry was seen by over two million people in big cities and small towns across US and Canada.
Episode 5
The Campaign for Page One
Mon, Feb 27, 1984
On eve of 1984 New Hampshire primary, Frontline presents first of four national election reports.
Episode 6
The Mind of a Murderer: Part 1
Mon, Mar 19, 198460 mins
A look into the mind of one of the Hillside Strangler murderers, Kenneth Bianchi.
Episode 7
The Mind of a Murderer: Part 2
60 mins
A look at the trial and the use of psychiatric evidence in the criminal proceedings of mass murderer Kenneth Bianchi.
Episode 8
The Struggle for Birmingham
Mon, Apr 2, 1984
This special election report focuses on Birmingham, Alabama, which was a key battlefield in black struggle for civil rights in 1960's.
Episode 9
Captive in El Salvador
Mon, Apr 16, 1984
Much of debate over role of US in Central America focuses on this tiny nation about.
Episode 10
Chasing the Basketball Dream
Mon, Apr 23, 1984
Many young men, especially many poor blacks in nation's cities, dream of making it big by playing basketball.
Episode 11
The Other Side of the Track
Mon, May 7, 1984
Horse-racing is American's number one spectator sport. In 1982, more that 77 million people wagered almost $12 billion at nation's racetracks.
Episode 12
Return of the Great White Fleet
Mon, May 14, 1984
Frontline profiles Navy Secretary John Lehman and growing debate inside Navy establishment to build a multi-billion dollar fleet.
Episode 13
Warning from Gangland
Mon, May 21, 1984
In 1984, Los Angeles had worst gang problem in nation, and more than 1,000 people were killed in gang violence.
Episode 14
Bread, Butter and Politics
Mon, Jun 4, 1984
National attention has focused on hunger in America after a presidential commission and several private advocacy groups reported new findings.
Episode 15
Man's Best Friends
Mon, Jun 18, 1984
Frontline examines ethical arguments over use of animal testing in American laboratories, hospitals, and medical schools.
Episode 16
So You Want to Be President
Tue, Oct 9, 1984
From lonely, early days of presidential ambition, through months of promise, to day of denial, Frontline follows 1984 presidential campaign of Gary Hart.
Episode 17
Welcome to America
Tue, Oct 16, 1984
The bittersweet story of four unforgettable people who flee repression in Poland to find a better life in Chicago.
Episode 18
Not One of the Boys
Tue, Oct 23, 1984
As more women are voting and running for elected office, have changed face of American politics?
Episode 19
Living Below the Line
Tue, Oct 30, 1984
It could never happen to you. One day it happened to Farrell Stallings. After 28 years at same job, he was laid off-a victim of recession.
Episode 20
The Arab and the Israeli
Tue, Nov 13, 1984
Two men, a Palestinian and an Israeli, born thirty miles apart, journey to America.
Episode 21
Better Off Dead?
Tue, Nov 20, 1984
Frontline goes inside hospitals where every day doctors, lawyers, and parents face agonizing choice: how far do we go with medical treatment for infants born so physically and mentally damaged they have no hope of leading normal lives?
Episode 22
Cry, Ethiopia, Cry
Tue, Nov 27, 1984
In first comprehensive reports broadcast in US, Frontline presents searing reality of famine in Ethiopia.
Episode 23
Red Star Over Khyber
Tue, Dec 11, 1984
In 1979, Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On fifth anniversary of invasion, Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Episode 24
Marshall High Fights Back
Tue, Dec 18, 1984
Marshall High School is poorest in Chicago-both academically and economically. But it is fighting back.