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To commemorate the 50th anniversary, CNN reexamines the Watergate affair and the anatomy of the infamous break-in that started it all - this time told firsthand by John Dean, former White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon, in the CNN Original Series, Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal. Produced by Herzog & Company, it is an immersive look inside Nixon's inner circle and the schemes behind closed doors by the Committee to Re-Elect the President that would eventually unravel his presidency. Across four revealing episodes, Dean divulges more than he ever could under oath, shedding new light on the back-channeling, the back-pedaling, and the backstabbing. Featuring rich archival footage and interviews with key insiders who had a front-row seat to the biggest presidential scandal of the 20th century, this series questions if America has learned anything since Watergate or if we as a nation will repeat the past. 

This was a 16-episode Hanna-Barbera animated series that first aired in 1974. Penrod Pooch(Penry for short) is a mild mannered canine janitor at a police station and whenever help is needed he dives into a file cabinet and emerges as a karate fighting, super hero named Hong Kong Phooey. Accompanied by his trusty feline companion Spot, Hong Kong Phooey fights crime while double checking his trusty textbook The Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu.Bumbling through solving crimes it is Spot who is inaudibly muttering the clues while Penry takes credit.

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar-man, thief. George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

The Good Life was an immensely popular British comedy of the 1970s. Tom and Barbara Good decide to abandon the rat race and live off their own resources, in their case a large house in posh Surbiton, where they plough up the garden and introduce a goat called Geraldine, a couple of pigs called Pinky and Perky, and various hens ruled over by a rooster nicknamed Lenin for his autocratic manner.

The show follows Peter Parker, an average guy who has amazing super powers that allows him to crawl on walls & ceilings, swing on webs, and fight crime - he's Spider-Man.

Spanning the 70s, 80s, and 90s over eight half-hour episodes, NEW EDEN is a hilariously complex, true crime parody that begins in 1977, when Katherine Wryfield (Lorette) and Grace Lee (Rosen) attempt to start a large scale feminist utopia, "New Eden." While intentions for this would-be utopia were noble, in the inexperienced hands of Lee and Wryfield, the community quickly devolves into drug addled, alien-goddess worshipping chaos...and murder. Definitely some murder.

The Clown and the Candyman takes viewers down the rabbit hole to a murky world of predators in the '70s. Centered around the evil of Gacy and Corll, the special offers a deep dive into their crimes, how they were discovered, and the race to identify their remaining nameless victims. The special also investigates their connections to John David Norman, the key operator of a nationwide pedophile ring, while never-before-heard tapes of Gacy offers viewers a glimpse into the disturbed man and his hideous actions.

Series examining the police investigation into the crimes of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, and the missed opportunities to charge him for his earlier, unacknowledged crimes.

In 1979, Private Leroy Dulaney vanishes from his post at Camp Lejeune. The Marine Corps say he went AWOL, but his mother Carol knows in her gut that something is wrong. Determined to find out what happened to her son, she undertakes her own investigation. She could have never imagined what she would uncover: a world of drugs, rumored satanic cults, and a possible serial killer.

This is a 38-episode drama series about the aftermath of a virulent plague that has wiped out 95% of the Earth's population.

Washed up on a California beach after a storm, the half-dead amphibian is rushed to a naval hospital where a beautiful woman doctor, Elizabeth Merrill, saves his life by popping him back in the water after X-rays have shown he has gills where his lungs should be. Dr. Merrill christens the submariner Mark Harris and recruits him to the Foundation for Oceanic Research. While helping Dr. Merrill and her colleagues in the super-sub Cetacean, he hopes to find out if he is indeed the sole survivor of the lost city of Atlantis.

Science teacher Andrea Thomas discovers a lost amulet holding the powers of the goddess Isis while on an archaeological dig.

Like many modern families, the Ashby Hawkins home is stuffed full of tablets, computers, phones, and gadgets to distract them in their spare time. But for one summer they agreed to give up all their 21st century technology and travel back in time, to experience the radical transformation of our leisure time since 1950.The family's own home becomes their time machine as they are transported back to a different decade each week. Guided by presenters Giles Coren and social historian Polly Russell, the family's entire experience is underpinned by The Family Expenditure Survey, a government study which ran from the 50s right through to 1999. The survey's detailed spending records give us the best possible clue as to what families were doing with their leisure time across the five decades.

With the motto "We do anything, anytime", The Goodies often found themselves dealing with all sorts of bizarre situations such as giant kittens, the Loch Ness monster, dodo birds, lighthouses, the destruction of the Earth, black puddings and beanstalks, just to name a few.

Set in Pittsburgh in 1975, Edward Borman, a low-level government office worker, finds himself trapped when the Men of Mercury take over the building and use it as a base.

Return to the Planet of the Apes is a short-lived animated series, by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in association with 20th Century Fox Television, based upon Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel had previously been adapted in a series of movies, beginning with the 1968 Planet of the Apes starring Charlton Heston. Unlike the film, its sequels, and the 1974 live-action television series, which involved a primitive ape civilization, Return to the Planet of the Apes depicted a technologically advanced society, complete with automobiles, film, and television; as such it more closely resembled both Boulle's original novel and early concepts for the first Apes movie which were changed due to budgetary limitations in the late 1960s.

Videos, photos, ads and games from the pre-Internet era and a focus on things that would have gone viral had the web existed back then. A group of guest panelists will join in and comment, as well as share their memories from the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

Tony Baretta is a streetwise and single cop, who lives in a rundown hotel when he was not working. He usually wore a T-Shirt, jeans and a cap while on patrol. He never wanted a partner to work with and always worked alone on cases. Tony also had an unusual pet, Fred the cockatoo, that he took with him on many occasions.

A private detective solves cases in Los Angeles.

In the 70s, a student activist is committed to a sanatorium. Forced to participate in an experimental treatment for women, she fights back against the program and the methods of her doctor.

The trials and tribulations of the Bradford brood, which consists of eight very independent children.

A trucker and his pet chimp travel the highways of America, getting into various adventures and misadventures along the way.

Deadly Legacy, Investigation Discovery's new crime show re-investigates the case of John Wayne Gacy, the infamous serial killer responsible for the deaths of more than 30 men in Chicago in the 1970s. Killer clown John Wayne Gacy was caught in 1978 and executed in 1994. However, the case doesn't end there. Gacy took the secret identities of eight victims to his grave. The limited series, which airs in three parts, pries open the decades-old file and hopes to confirm the identities of those victims. Cook County, Illinois cold case detective Sergeant Jason Moran believes new DNA technology will make that possible.

Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie was a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, came to CI5 from the regular police force, and was more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship was often contentious, but they were the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

Documentary exploring the experiences of the survivors of the Andes plane crash in 1972, from battling the harsh landscapes to considering cannibalism in order to stay alive. Through the testimonies of the survivors, the series focuses on their stories and the event that's come to be known as the Miracle of the Andes.