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  • The Advocates (1969–1984)
  • TV Series | 60 min | Talk-Show
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The Advocates (1969–1984)
TV Series | 60 min | Talk-Show

Before Roger Fisher founded the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, he was nationally recognized for having created an award-winning public affairs television show, The Advocates, which aired on the Public Broadcasting Service. ...See moreBefore Roger Fisher founded the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, he was nationally recognized for having created an award-winning public affairs television show, The Advocates, which aired on the Public Broadcasting Service. Over the course of its five year season, beginning in 1969 (plus additional shows in 1978-79 and in 1984), The Advocates previewed some of the ideas that appeared in Roger's many writings and, eventually, as part of the Program on Negotiation itself. The Advocates used a modified trial format to debate what Roger called an "important public trouble," not in the abstract, but in terms of what Roger called "a decidable question" - a situation where someone, whether a public figure or an individual citizen at home, had to decide what to do. Viewers in the studio audience or at home in their living rooms were invited to weigh in by mail, and during the first season, a remote audience on location somewhere else in the country offered their opinions as well. He saw this as part of an effort to help citizens make "public affairs your affairs." The Advocates was produced initially through a joint effort by WGBH in Boston and KCET in Los Angeles, two flagship stations in the public broadcasting network. The Advocates addressed issues ranging from civil disobedience to same-sex marriage. In some cases, the shows are more than four decades old, but many of the issues are still timely. Written by Anonymous / WGBH See less
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Roger D. Fisher (created by)
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Updated Oct 5, 1969

Release date (First episode)
Oct 5, 1969 (United States)

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105 cast members
Name Episodes Known for
Roger D. Fisher
Self - Moderator Self - Moderator   See fewer
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Evan Semerjian
Advocate (1969-1984) / Self - Moderator Advocate (1969-1984) / Self - Moderator   See fewer
Howard Miller
Self - Advocate (1969-1972) Self - Advocate (1969-1972)   See fewer
Otis Young
Self - Witness (1969) Self - Witness (1969)   See fewer
Pearl S. Buck
Self - Witness (1969) Self - Witness (1969)   See fewer
Shirley Chisholm
Self - Witness (1969) Self - Witness (1969)   See fewer
Bob Dole
Self - Witness (1970-1972) Self - Witness (1970-1972)   See fewer
Walter Cronkite
Self - Guest (1970) Self - Guest (1970)   See fewer
Joseph Oteri
Self - Advocate (1970) Self - Advocate (1970)   See fewer
Nick Katz
Self - Witness (1970) Self - Witness (1970)   See fewer
Judith Hope
Self - Advocate (1970) Self - Advocate (1970)   See fewer
William Rasberry
Self - Guest (1970) Self - Guest (1970)   See fewer
Eqbal Ahmad
Self - Witness (1970) Self - Witness (1970)   See fewer
Richard Falk
Self - Advocate (1970) Self - Advocate (1970)   See fewer
Michael Dukakis
Guest (1971-1984) / Self - Moderator Guest (1971-1984) / Self - Moderator   See fewer
John Kenneth Galbraith
Self - Witness (1971-1979) Self - Witness (1971-1979)   See fewer
William Rusher
Self - Advocate (1971-1979) Self - Advocate (1971-1979)   See fewer
Frederick Wiseman
Self - Witness (1971) Self - Witness (1971)   See fewer
Noam Chomsky
Self - Witness (1971) Self - Witness (1971)   See fewer
John Seigenthaler
Self - Witness (1971) Self - Witness (1971)   See fewer
Edith Efron
Self - Witness (1971) Self - Witness (1971)   See fewer
Khandakar Mushtaq Ahmed
Self - Witness (1971) Self - Witness (1971)   See fewer
Evelyn Sarson
Self - Witness (1971) Self - Witness (1971)   See fewer
Jacob Javits
Self - Witness (1971) Self - Witness (1971)   See fewer
James Buckley
Self - Witness (1972-1979) Self - Witness (1972-1979)   See fewer
Aryeh Neier
Self - Advocate / Witness (1972-1973) Self - Advocate / Witness (1972-1973)   See fewer
Jesse Owens
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
Bella Abzug
Self (1972) Self (1972)   See fewer
Ben Bradlee
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
Brenda Feigen
Self - Advocate (1972) Self - Advocate (1972)   See fewer
Adlai Stevenson III
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
Suzy Chaffee
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
Jane Elizabeth Hodgson
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
Willi Unsoeld
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
L.G. Lohan
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
George Gilder
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
Kevin Phillips
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
Mahbub Ul Haq
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
Philip M. Stern
Self - Advocate (1972) Self - Advocate (1972)   See fewer
John Harmer
Self - Advocate (1972) Self - Advocate (1972)   See fewer
Mary D. Keyserling
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
Mary Rowe
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
David Schoenbrun
Self - Advocate (1972) Self - Advocate (1972)   See fewer
Harold Zimman
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
Brian Faulkner
Self - Witness (1972) Self - Witness (1972)   See fewer
Margaret H. Marshall
Self - Advocate (1973-1979) Self - Advocate (1973-1979)   See fewer
Mo Udall
Advocate (1973-1974) / Self - Moderator Advocate (1973-1974) / Self - Moderator   See fewer
Zipporah B. Wiseman
Self - Advocate (1973-1974) Self - Advocate (1973-1974)   See fewer
Charles Rogovin
Self - Moderator (1973-1974) Self - Moderator (1973-1974)   See fewer
Ronald Reagan
Self - Witness (1973) Self - Witness (1973)   See fewer
Alan Greenspan
Self - Witness (1973) Self - Witness (1973)   See fewer
Hubert H. Humphrey
Self - Witness (1973) Self - Witness (1973)   See fewer
Milton Friedman
Self - Witness (1973) Self - Witness (1973)   See fewer
Mary Lane Cobb
Self - Witness (1973) Self - Witness (1973)   See fewer
Stewart L. Udall
Self - Witness (1973) Self - Witness (1973)   See fewer
Caspar Weinberger
Self - Witness (1973) Self - Witness (1973)   See fewer
Alan Guttmacher
Self - Witness (1973) Self - Witness (1973)   See fewer
Margaret Heckler
Self - Moderator (1973) Self - Moderator (1973)   See fewer
Carolyn Shaw Bell
Self - Moderator (1973) Self - Moderator (1973)   See fewer
Geoffrey Kemp
Self - Witness (1974) Self - Witness (1974)   See fewer
Thomas I. Atkins
Self - Moderator (1974) Self - Moderator (1974)   See fewer
Richard Reeve Baxter
Self - Witness (1974) Self - Witness (1974)   See fewer
Jack Kemp
Self - Witness (1978-1984) Self - Witness (1978-1984)   See fewer
Antonin Scalia
Self - Advocate (1978-1979) Self - Advocate (1978-1979)   See fewer
Benjamin Netanyahu
Self - Witness (1978) Self - Witness (1978)   See fewer
Laurence Tribe
Self - Advocate (1978) Self - Advocate (1978)   See fewer
Orrin Hatch
Self - Witness (1978) Self - Witness (1978)   See fewer
Phyllis Schlafly
Self - Witness (1978) Self - Witness (1978)   See fewer
Thomas Sowell
Self - Witness (1978) Self - Witness (1978)   See fewer
Barbara Babcock
Self - Witness (1978) Self - Witness (1978)   See fewer
Fouad Ajami
Self - Advocate (1978) Self - Advocate (1978)   See fewer
George Ball
Self - Witness (1978) Self - Witness (1978)   See fewer
Naseer Aruri
Self - Witness (1978) Self - Witness (1978)   See fewer
Eleanor Smeal
Self - Witness (1978) Self - Witness (1978)   See fewer
Joan Gussow
Self - Witness (1978) Self - Witness (1978)   See fewer
Alvin L. Schorr
Self - Witness (1978) Self - Witness (1978)   See fewer
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
Self - Witness (1978) Self - Witness (1978)   See fewer
Barney Frank
Guest (1979-1984) / Self - Advocate Guest (1979-1984) / Self - Advocate   See fewer
Michio Kaku
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Ted Kennedy
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Paul Tsongas
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
William Colby
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Rubén Ángel Berríos Martínez
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Mitchell Rogovin
Self - Advocate (1979) Self - Advocate (1979)   See fewer
Jose Arsenio Torres
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Reinaldo Paniagua
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Chester Crocker
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Matthew Wakatama
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Charles Komanoff
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Callistus Ndlovu
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Charles Nesson
Self - Advocate (1979) Self - Advocate (1979)   See fewer
Fernando Martín García
Self - Advocate (1979) Self - Advocate (1979)   See fewer
Joaquin A. Marquez
Self - Advocate (1979) Self - Advocate (1979)   See fewer
Randall Robinson
Self - Advocate (1979) Self - Advocate (1979)   See fewer
Janice McLaughlin
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Leonard Sussman
Self - Witness (1979) Self - Witness (1979)   See fewer
Alexander Haig
Self - Guest (1980) Self - Guest (1980)   See fewer
Alton Frye
Self - Guest (1980) Self - Guest (1980)   See fewer
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Self - Guest (1984) Self - Guest (1984)   See fewer
Joe Biden
Self - Guest Self - Guest   See fewer
Alan Dershowitz
Self - Advocate Self - Advocate   See fewer
Victor Palmieri
Self - Moderator Self - Moderator   See fewer
Marilyn Berger
Self - Moderator Self - Moderator   See fewer
Michael J. Harrington
Self - Moderator Self - Moderator   See fewer
Robert Maynard
Self - Moderator Self - Moderator   See fewer
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