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20/20

1978–ABCDocumentary

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ABC's answer to 60 Minutes, running now for nearly fifty years.

One opening sequence is catalogued for 20/20, covering season 1.

It arrived on ABC in 1978, when One Life to Live, All My Children and The Bugs Bunny Show were also on the network.

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The opening titles

Season 1

No usable clip kept. The one upload of the titles carries no date, and this catalogue places a sequence against the season it ran in.

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