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Overview

Meeting of Minds is a television series, created by Steve Allen, which aired on PBS from 1977 to 1981.

The show featured guests who played significant roles in world history. Guests would interact with each other and host Steve Allen, discussing philosophy, religion, history, science, and many other topics. It was conceptually quite similar to the Canadian television series Witness to Yesterday, created by Arthur Voronka, which preceded Meeting Of Minds to the air by three years. Steve Allen actually appeared on a 1976 episode of Witness to Yesterday as George Gershwin, one year before Meeting Of Minds premiered.

As nearly as was possible, the actual words of the historical figures were used. The show was fully scripted, yet the scripts were carefully crafted to give the appearance of spontaneous discussion among historic figures. 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, and Oliver Cromwell.

Typically, each episode would be split into two parts, broadcast separately, with most or all of the guests introduced over the course of the first part, and the discussions continuing into the second part. A total of 24 episodes were produced.

  1. Steve Allen

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Steve Allen as

    Steve Allen

    24 Episodes

  2. Jayne Meadows as

    Jayne Meadows

    16 Episodes

  3. John Hoyt as

    John Hoyt

    4 Episodes

  4. Alexander Scourby as

    Alexander Scourby

    4 Episodes

  5. Harris Yulin as

    Harris Yulin

    4 Episodes

  6. Leon Askin as

    Leon Askin

    4 Episodes

  7. Al Mancini as

    Al Mancini

    2 Episodes

  8. Roscoe Lee Browne as

    Roscoe Lee Browne

    2 Episodes

  9. Katherine Helmond as

    Katherine Helmond

    2 Episodes

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Last Season

Season 4

1981 • 6 Episodes

Season 4 of Meeting of Minds premiered on March 29, 1981.

Margaret Sanger/Mahatma Gandhi/Adam Smith, Part 2

(4x6, May 3, 1981) Season Finale

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Meeting of Minds

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Status Ended

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Type Scripted

Original Language English

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