Frontline Season 6 Episodes

Episode 1

Praise the Lord

Tue, Jan 26, 1988

Frontline traces rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agencies failed to vigorously investigate charges of corruption in Bakker empire.

Episode 2

Operation Urgent Fury

Tue, Feb 2, 1988

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh investigates Ronald Reagan's greatest triumphs-rescue of American students.

Episode 3

The Man Who Shot John Lennon

Tue, Feb 9, 1988

Frontline goes inside the mind of Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980.

Episode 4

Your Flight Is Cancelled

Tue, Feb 16, 1988

Episode 5

Shakedown in Santa Fe

Tue, Feb 23, 1988

Since deregulation, American's airline industry has become a nightmare of delays, cancellations, and near misses.

Episode 6

Let My Daughter Die

Tue, Mar 1, 1988

Eight years after most violent prison uprisings in US history, Frontline returns to penitentiary in New Mexico to probe continuing struggle between inmates and guards, wardens and reformers.

Episode 7

Back in the USSR

Tue, Mar 29, 1988

Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from life-support system keeps her alive.

Episode 8

Poison and the Pentagon

Tue, Apr 5, 1988

In 1968, American journalist Jerry Schecter, accompanied by his wife and five young children, moved to Moscow on assignment for Time magazine.

Episode 9

To a Safer Place

Tue, Apr 12, 1988

The military is America's largest producer of toxic waste. Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates Pentagon's poor record of cleaning up its pollution contaminates ground water in communities across country.

Episode 10

Murder on the Rio San Juan

Tue, Apr 19, 1988

When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable journey back into her past-confronting her mother and other adults who failed to protect her.

Episode 11

American Game, Japanese Rules

Tue, Apr 26, 1988

Frontline investigates unsolved 1984 terrorist bombing at a press conference held by contra leader Eden Pastora.

Episode 12

Racism 101

Tue, May 10, 1988

Can America succeed in Japan? Frontline paints an intimate portrait of Americans living.

Episode 13

Guns, Drugs, and the CIA

Tue, May 17, 1988

The CIA cites national security as a reason for secrecy on its long-running alliance with international drug smugglers.

Episode 14

The Defense of Europe

Tue, May 24, 1988

A Frontline investigation examines CIA's long history of involvement with drug smugglers in trouble spots around world and how agency has defended its alliances with drug dealers under cloak of 'national security.

Episode 15

Trouble in Paradise

Tue, May 31, 1988

Frontline and Time magazine join forces to examine new realities for NATO alliance following American-Soviet nuclear arms treaty.

Episode 16

Who Pays for AIDS?

Tue, Jun 7, 1988

Frontline examines US government's attempts to forge a military pact with Pacific Island nation of Palau.

Episode 17

Our Forgotten War

Tue, Jun 14, 1988

By 1991, health care for AIDS patients in United States could cost an estimated $16 to $22 billion.

Episode 18

Indian Country

Tue, Jun 21, 1988

In Central America, while US attention has been dominated by contra war in Nicaragua, battle for El Salvador continues.

Episode 19

My Husband is Going to Kill Me

Tue, Jun 28, 1988

The Quinault Indians of Washington State seem to have everything-strong leadership.

Episode 20

The Politics of Prosperity

Mon, Oct 10, 1988

In February 1987, 30 year-old Pamela Guenther turned to police and courts in a Denver suburb for protection from her violent husband.

Episode 21

The Choice

Mon, Oct 24, 1988115 mins

One of the most memorable presidential races in decades pits the iconoclast John McCain against the newcomer Barack Obama; a heroic former prisoner of war against the first African-American major party nominee. The 20th anniversary broadcast of "The Choice" examines the personal and political biographies of these men and goes behind headlines to discover how they arrived at this moment and what their very different candidacies say about America.

Episode 22

Episode #6.22

Mon, Oct 24, 1988

Frontline and Time magazine step back from heat of 1988 presidential campaign to examine.