Against the Odds (TV series)
Against the Odds is an early Nickelodeon show profiling inspirational stories of people throughout history. It was hosted by Bill Bixby. A television series also on History, present day, not related to this. It ran from 1982 to 1984 on Nickelodeon and was described as "a series of little tragedies" by Sam Laybourne, son of future Nickelodeon president Geraldine Laybourne.[2]
| Against the Odds | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Created by | Cy Schneider |
| Starring | Bill Bixby Virginia Capers Peter Brooks |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Bob Klein Bruce Littlejohn |
| Producer(s) | Marcus Keys |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nickelodeon |
| Original release | July 4, 1982[1] – 1984 |
Profiles
Against the Odds profiled several notable historical figures including:
- Albert Einstein
- Pablo Picasso
- Bessie Smith
- Louis Pasteur
- Margaret Mead
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Dorothea Lange
- Malcolm X
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Walt Whitman
- Joan of Arc
- George Washington Carver
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Pancho Villa
- Adolf Hitler
- Charles Darwin
- Al Capone
- Jackie Robinson
- Harry Houdini
- Golda Meir
- Helen Keller
- D.W. Griffith
- Samuel Adams
- Abraham Lincoln
- Charles Lindbergh
- Thomas Edison
- Henry Ford
- Vladimir Lenin
- Amelia Earhart
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Andrew Carnegie
- Rudolph Valentino
- John Glenn
- Babe Didrickson
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Pelé
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mao Tse-tung
- Winston Churchill
- Clara Barton
- Woody Guthrie
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Susan B. Anthony
- Sarah Bernhardt
- P.T. Barnum
References
- Morgenstern Katz, Debra (June 27, 1982). "Odd couples make history on Odds". Home News Tribune. New Brunswick, New Jersey. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
The July 4th pilot for the series, which will begin playing regularly in September...
- "The Hauser Oral and Video History Project". The Cable Center (cablecenter.org). Archived from the original on 2014-02-19. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
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