Meeting of Minds
Meeting of Minds is a television series, created by Steve Allen, which aired on PBS from 1977 to 1981.
The series featured guests that played significant roles in world history. Guests could interact with one another and host Steve Allen, talking philosophy, religion, history, science, and other topics. It was conceptually quite similar to this Canadian television set Witness to created by Arthur Voronka, which preceded Meeting by three years into the air . Steve Allen actually appeared on a 1976 incident of Witness one year before Meeting Minds premiered.
The words of the amounts were used as nearly as was possible. The series was scripted, the scripts have been carefully crafted to give the appearance of spontaneous debate. Guests included: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Paine, Francis Bacon, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Daniel O'Connell, Catherine II, along with Oliver Cromwell.
On average, each incident will be split into two parts, broadcast together with all of the guests introduced over the duration of the very first area or all, and also the discussions. A total of 24 episodes are made.