Frontline Season 2 · Episode 4

Give Me That Big Time Religion

13th February 1984 Season 2 Episode 4

Investigating whether the tens of millions of dollars raised through the appeals of television evangelists like Jimmy Swaggart goes more to doing God's work or to keeping the preachers on TV. Should the government regulate religious fundraising?

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Season 2 · Episode 5

The Campaign for Page One

On the eve of the 1984 New Hampshire primary, the first of four national election reports. Correspondent Richard Reeves looks behind the scenes at the presidential candidates and the political reporters who cover them -- the story behind the story and who writes it.

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Will Lyman

Self - Narrator (voice)