Shame on us, that there is nothing, NOTHING, like this in the vastness of media today. I watched this when it originally ran on PBS...watching it today makes my heart ache.

@sawfingers1750

3 жыл бұрын

orangelion03 we have Cardi B

@alankuntz6494

3 жыл бұрын

exactly !

@Thehouseoffail

3 жыл бұрын

We have Puppet History. I recommend the episode on Hapshetsut.

@missyvanwinkle9247

2 жыл бұрын

Like you orangelion, our family watched this and *adored* it. I was thrilled to see it here on KZread. Even sent the link to my father. Yes, wouldn't it be amazing to have PBS recreate this?

@michaeldenny9320

10 ай бұрын

The 50s were a golden age of TV when people were experimenting with a new medium. Steve Allen was one of the best. There were hours of classical music, too.. and don't forget the Ed Sullivan show.

This was a brilliant program. One of the plagues of our time, especially in this country, is the ignorance of history among the general populace.

I have always wondered why this program wasn't repeated on TV. Whoever is responsible for bringing these back, BLESS YOU. I loved this series

@sirellyn

Жыл бұрын

There's a current war on western civilization right now. If this was brought back, you can be sure the people would not only be very different, but any of the previous ones you recognized would have their stories changed rather significantly.

Who's watching this in the 2020's? Wisdom we could use today.

@Mikathedog100

3 ай бұрын

2024

@vianova9396

3 ай бұрын

My middle school students

A level of intellectual stimulation you won't find in America today... My god how I miss that man.

@ArtorGrael

14 күн бұрын

It's fun but they are just regurgitating the encyclopedia.

Steve Allen did us all a great service by letting us hear from these greats of history. So cool to see them talk to and interact with one another. I remember watching this show on PBS when it was first aired and I was so impressed; what a great way to learn history!

@winstonelston5743

15 күн бұрын

I have commented before that this series was one of the rare oases in Newton Minow's "vast wasteland." Mr. Allen wrote the greatest portion of the scripts, so we actually see them interacting as Mr. Allen and the cast imagine they would have. I wonder how the spirits of the figures portrayed in these shows (in whatever afterlife they may be enjoying or enduring) would view the portrayals, how they are interacting among themselves and with the actors, what points of agreement or disagreement with the scripts might they want to expound upon?

Gosh I loved this series as a kid. Nearly cried when it ended. He, Steve Allen, was a real genius

In terms of promoting intelligent inquiry and contribution to twentieth century culture, who is more underappreciated than this man? And to think that he is the same fellow who elevated silliness to an artform...brilliant man.

@arttrombley7385

5 жыл бұрын

He was indeed Brilliant.

@5610winston

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Allen's brilliance lay not only in his organization of the content, but also in assembling the casts. I sometimes wonder whether Jayne Meadows was influential in this respect; she was no less remarkable a mind than Mr. Allen.

I'm going to reiterate what everyone else is....this show was brilliant, it taught you and entertained you at the same time. There is nothing like this now, but even fewer people know about the amazing legacy of historical figures, which is sad, but I still come back a re-watch these with relish. RIP Steve Allan and this wonderful show.....and to think, Steve, when he was younger, grew up in the depression and knew hunger, both physically and intellectually and that didn't hold him back. Oh, thanks for putting these on your channel to watch, J. Kam!

In my radio days, I had the great pleasure once of interviewing Steve Allen. When I told him of my admiration for the Meeting of the Minds series, his reply was, "Ah, so you were the one." Too bad there were not more of me. This was a great program.

These shows were sheer brilliance.

These Meeting of the Minds episodes were just brilliant. I remember watching all of them. My only regret -- I wish these were all compiled on a DVD. I'd buy it in a second. The writing was brilliant and the acting was fantastic. A great way to engage students in hstory.

@mister-v-3086

3 жыл бұрын

All are on DVD>>look up the Steve Allen website.

@winstonelston5743

2 жыл бұрын

@@mister-v-3086 I am so glad to hear of that. Going there as soon as this episode is over.

I remember getting up at 0645 on Sunday mornings to watch this on PBS. Every Sunday!

@anti-ethniccleansing465

3 жыл бұрын

It aired at night though initially - why were you choosing to get up so early to watch it instead?

with all that is going on I went back in my memories at now 85 yr, old , and remembering this Meeting of the Minds, I use to love to watch all these programs thank you KZread I can go back in time of my youth. I use to love PBS at that time.

Thank you so much!!! I remember watching Meeting of Minds on PBS back in the 70's and loved it.

This was one of the cleverest and highest class shows ever on American television

@tommythevenot7617

2 жыл бұрын

Even as a 10-11 year old I enjoyed watching this. Half the time I didn’t know what they were discussing, but it was so well written and humorous that I got a kick out of it.

@adamcheklat7387

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if it was possible to remake the series and introduce a pilot episode with Franz Joseph I, Sitting Bull, Louis IX and Julius Caesar.

This was a favorite show of my high school friends and mine during the 1970s.

Thank you so much for posting these! I was much too young to appreciate this show when it first aired, though my parents watched it religiously, and I'm very glad finally have the chance to watch it now.

R.I.P. the wonderful Joseph Sirola(Thomas Paine)1929~2019.

New viewer, have never enjoyed this program before in my 62 years of being a Steve Allen fan. This definitely should be required viewing in schools.

I had no idea these shows were still available! Steve Allen was a genius. Thanks for this!

@jeffreyrobinson3555

4 жыл бұрын

Stumbled across it by accident, I watched them in the 70s and now happy to have found them again

I loved watching "MEETING OF MINDS" on Channel 56 as a teenager in the late 1970s.

@willalstonjr

5 жыл бұрын

So did I. They were great shows.

@pamelarozema468

5 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@klafrance123

5 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@christopherfortunato6018

5 жыл бұрын

So did I.

Steve Allen was brilliant.

I remember watching this when I was much younger. I would sneak out of bed at night and watch his show.

I loved this show as a kid. glad to see it preserved!

Brilliant Performances by all! Jayne Meadows is brilliant! 🙂

Brilliant! I remember watching this when it was broadcast. I tell my students to check into these episodes.

This program was a work of monumental genius. If any show should be remade, it's this one.

@Will-tn8kq

Жыл бұрын

there no longer exist any writers who are intelligent and well-read enough enough to channel Thomas Paine, Cleopatra and Thomas Aquinas all at once. No one is smart enough to revive this show.

@DawoudKringle

Жыл бұрын

@@Will-tn8kq With all due respect, I must disagree. Such people do exist. But finding them requires looking in places one is not accustomed.

@Will-tn8kq

Жыл бұрын

@@DawoudKringle I suppose you are right that they exist SOMEWHERE. I guess I just mean there are no television writers who could write this anymore.

This show was mentioned in "Steve Allen: On the Bible, Religion and Morality", which I highly recommend. Thanks for the upload

@gordonely3591

5 ай бұрын

Thanks ❤

First time I have had the knowledge of this. I was drawn to this because I have been a fan of Steve Allen comedic talents. The only people I recognize is James whitmore Steve of course and his lovely wife. Thomas Paine published common sense! Bravo ! Conversation is dead in this time of life!

I saw this series when it was originally on when I was in my teens. It inflamed my mind.

This is incredible. I'm not even 5 minutes into this video and I'm already hooked. I'm almost 30. Why have I never heard about this series before?! I used to watch PBS all the time growing up because my family didn't yet have cable or satellite for a number of years. They couldn't have replayed just one of the episodes from this series? Maybe I might have been too young to really understand the discussions but I know I would've still been interested. There's just nothing even nearly comparable to this in all media today

An oasis in Newton Minow's "Vast Wasteland". Along with Jacob Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man", one of the finest, most enlightening, and grandest educational guides on to how to think ever presented on screen,

I don’t remember this show as a kid but I’m so happy to have discovered them. I’m completely captivated, thanks for the upload.

So so gd amazing, what a series!! Steve Allen the perfect host for this fantastic premise! 🤴 That's you, the king of uploading dope ass old British shows, and your trophy is next to you. Thank you ! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank you ! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank you ! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank you ! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank you ! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank you ! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank you ! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank You!!

@edmundpower1250

2 ай бұрын

Is that it? That's not enough thanks

Very special and educational, the actors terrific, and Steve Allen to create and write this a very creative man. Here he is bringing shadows of history to life

I loved this as a child, and when I team taught English-History AP Senior Seminar, my co-teacher and I recreated this with our students. I love watching it now.

I also watched this as a kid... learned a little history and tolerance as well. Wonderful script and I especially appreciated Jayne Meadows. Thanks, Steve.

I used to work for PBS. This was by far my favorite show, It still is a favorite.

I watched this show as a teenager, and loved it. I can't wait to show it to my son now that I have found it. He and I talk current events, politics, history, etc., and I can show him this show is one of the things that helped form me into someone to questions, thinks, and doesn't simply accept what I'm told.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I absolutely loved this series. I even model an assignment in my online art appreciation course, based on this amazing show

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! I discovered these programs a while back and felt I had struck gold. Historically correct while delightfully entertaining! RIP Mr. Allen and thank you so much for your wonderful legacy. In this age of "Keeping Up With The Kardashians " this program was 5 stars versus a frog pond.

Thank you for bringing this back. I watched this while in college and loved it . Thanks again!

As much as I would LOVE to see this concept continue. I am not optimstic about what 2002 tv would do....

This show was such a relief to me, if only to learn how to discuss our differences in a thoughtful manner. But it was so much more, of course.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for broadcasting this wonderful thought provoking series. Well worth an hour of time.

My parents really liked the Steve Allen show. I didn't "get it" at the time, but this is fantastic.

They should do a new series based on Meeting Of Minds on the History channel.

@richardpenrod2911

3 жыл бұрын

It would be too liberal a view instead of fair, only dwelling on the bad parts of our history

@genegarrison6432

3 жыл бұрын

That would require class

@acaryadasa

3 жыл бұрын

If the history channel did it it would probably be interviewing Hitler and space aliens.

@altarush

3 жыл бұрын

They should do one on evil and have all dictators discuss things like Hitler and Saddam Hussein. Maybe have Vlad Dracula and Nero discuss evil

@anti-ethniccleansing465

3 жыл бұрын

@@altarush You are indoctrinated.

tv ain't what it use to be. steve allen, irreplaceable.

@5610winston

5 жыл бұрын

That's the problem, Lynda: too much of TV is precisely what it used to be. Meeting of Minds, The Ascent of Man (Jacob Bronowski), and a few others were the oases in Newton Minow's "Vast Wasteland".

Excellent show. We could all do well to think about their discussions and the impact of their thinking on us!

Thank you for posting these videos. Born in 1952 I was a teenager and watched these programs on television and enjoyed the mental stimulation. When other children were reading Dick and Jane books I was reading the classics as I was raised in an orphanage and books were my best friends. I adore public television and anything that makes me think. It's sad that most young and older people don't bother to read and use their cell phones and computers to play games and watch stupid videos. Such a waste.

Fantastic program!! It's 2022 and there is nothing like this show today EVANGELIST Roger Mansour

Thank you so much for uploading this, simply brilliant!

It was a brilliant series!! ❤

Loved these! Wish the History Channel would re-air and produce some new ones. Certainly a timely format.

I enjoyed it back then and in the midst of this pandemic, we could use now to bring about more understanding and tolerance, instead of the angry conversations of other forms os social media.

Would absolutely LOVE to own these. Couldn't get enough of this as a kid. Eventually became a Social Studies Teacher and local actor. This WAS television worth viewing... THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING

Thank you for posting this. This was a great education when i first watched it decades ago and is sorely needed to day where the general knowledge of history is so appalling.

Character actor, dialectician,scriptwriter,producer and children's tv host/performer:Joe Early(who played President Teddy Roosevelt on his children's mini series"Come Along" in 1973)portrays him again on this program.

I’m so happy I found this . Loved this show. Too bad we don’t have this again. Maybe cgi could bring this alive again.

This is wonderful. Thank you so much.

So glad to have found this!

I loved these as a kid and wish they still did this sort of television instead of the junk we have now. TV used to teach as well as entertain.

I remember this show from years back . Shame such intelligent, fascinating shows aren't being produced today

Did you know that if you have CC on, Thomas Paine bursts into the room and says, “I feel I should be pregnant”? Making Teddy Roosevelt’s “you’ll wait your turn!” even funnier.

I am a small student of History. I watched this as a kid. Loved it. They thought we were not smart enough to get it

To think one man, Steve Allen, wrote this whole thing. Steve was an absolute genius

I agree with all - a wonderful show. I remember being able to watch some of them when I was a young man, but I don't remember when they were telecast. Was it in the late 60's? If so, that would explain me only being able to see a few of them - I was in engineering school then, with no time for tv. Engineering, by the way, was a great Roman accomplishment. Their roads, water systems and sewer systems are still in use in many areas of Europe today.

I loved this series.

This show would never have been permitted in 2023. There would have been a shrill cacophony of outraged. Allen was a major influence on me. I am glad he did not live to see the turpitude to which his country has descended, although he did decry the decline, which began on Nov 22, 1963, and did more than most to remedy it. Thanks, Steve!

U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt was portrayed on this PBS TV Series..by a talented and creative..gentleman..that I was lucky enough to correspond with..before he left us..Mr.Joe Earley.

This was a clever, educational show. A real fun way to learn or relearn some history.

As an advocate of scientific skepticism he was a secular humanist and Fellow(Executive Council) in the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry(CSI). Mission statement: "promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims." A creative and prolific multi-media author, song writer, entertainer. MoM's was an Emmy and Peabody Award PBS program.

I loved this series,fun fun

Wonderful series

Excellent edutainment for the interested viewer. What an imaginative way to fertilize young minds to ideas and historical personalities. I loved watching these as a kid.

The CBC had a similar programme called the Titans - the actors stayed so in character - this one is equally good

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!

That was great fun - I hope I can get my daughter interested

Fantastic

Today's students haven't a clue of history. Something like this would stir up interest and bring a history rennasance

Steve allen was indeed a very talented man.

Excellent

I had forgotten about this show. I was enthralled with it when it first came on and am now equally enthralled. Just think about the mind of Steve Allen, who could go from the wackiest late night shows, way back in the’50s to writing something this unique and brilliant. It can still hold its own even for the world today. Maybe especially for the world today.

@jeffreyjeziorski1480

9 ай бұрын

And Steve Allen wrote over 2000 pop songs. A remarkable man...Da Vinci like.

Thank you so much for posting this. Where on earth did you get these? This isn't available anywhere. Do you know where we can find the rest of the series?

These shows should be used in schools

This was a very interesting concept, too bad the Brits didn't try a version of it.

Wow this should be the way of broadcasting

REALLY and TRULY INVOLVE YOURSELF in this episode for even a 2nd or 3rd time! It is ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDING how it speaks to our present-day... THIS is a NATIONAL TREASURE that needs to be revived for the perspective we have so tragically lost! THIS is what TV MIGHT HAVE BEEN in the service of humanity... Mr. Kam, do you have ANY idea whether the entire series still exists and whether it can be procured? Thank You for what is here!!!

I really like the tom Paine character!

This program needs to be restored and hosted by a person of like kind knowledge and wisdom

@edmundpower1250

2 ай бұрын

Sorry but there was only one Steve Allen

Would love to find videos of this great series

Brilliant programming

Wish this series was available on DVD.

@edmundpower1250

2 ай бұрын

It is

@kali3665

2 ай бұрын

@@edmundpower1250 All I've ever seen was an audio release of some episodes, not all of them. Last I heard, there was some legal issue with the Steve Allen people.

Sad that so many people today have no idea who these giants of history were.

"Great artists steal." I have stolen this brilliant idea and format from the late, great Steve Allen and have my university students replicate them using people associated with topics we're examining. Students must become experts in the character, biography, and thinking of the person they are assigned so that they can accurately answer questions and engage in debate with their fellow guests around the table. The rewards of this activity are too numerous to list here. I always explain who Steve Allen was and give him full credit for this genius idea.

Steve Allen was very witty and intelligent 👏

quite likely *Steve Allen's* greatest gift

@winstonelston5743

2 ай бұрын

Imagine the research he put into these scripts! Mr. Allen was a polymath and his works not only informed his audience, but provided us with substantial instruction in how to think.

About time , someone boo .

Wouldn't it be cool to see Christopher Hitches , Jesus Christ, Joseph Campbell on meeting of minds. Yeah we need a new ''Meeting of Minds''