First viewed : Summer 1988
I don't think I ever saw an episode of this from start to finish but it was part of those early night time schedules alongside Prisoner Cell Block H and The Other Side of Midnight . Phil Donahue's talk show had been running since 1970 in the US and was one of the first to encourage audience participation. By the time we got to see it, the celebrity guests seemed to have been phased out and Donahue's topics had narrowed down to one thing, neatly summed up by my college friend Mark's question "Does Donahue talk about anything other than sex ? ". Well not if the trailers were anything to go by, no.
In the nineties , he was superseded by the likes of Oprah Winfrey and the show was finally cancelled in 1996.
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