Meeting of Minds
Meeting of Minds is just a television series which aired in 1977 to 1981 on PBS.
The show featured guests who played significant roles in world history. Guests could socialize with sponsor Steve Allen and each other, discussing religion, philosophy, history, science, and a number of other topics. It had been quite similar to the television show Witness to created by Arthur Voronka, which preceded Meeting Of Allergic to the atmosphere by three years. Steve Allen really appeared on a 1976 incident of Witness to Yesterday as George Gershwin, 1 year before Meeting Of Minds premiered.
The actual words of those historical amounts were used, as nearly as was possible. The show had been fully scripted, the scripts were carefully crafted to provide the appearance of spontaneous debate. 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, along with Oliver Cromwell.
Each incident will be split up to broadcast with most or most of the guests introduced across the duration of the initial area, two parts, and also the discussions. A total of 24 episodes were produced.