S1E2's Current Events - What was going on at the time?

Episode 2E Notes: Other TV shows this night, #1 movie this weekend, in the news this day & TIME cover this week

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0:00 TV CONTEXT: first Thursday night, ratings, ABC bookends: Father Dowling Mysteries/Prime Time Live & counterprogramming: Cheers, Grand, Max Monroe: Loose Cannon

6:38 HISTORICAL CONTEXT including #1 MOVIE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / TIME COVER: Richard Nixon / WORLD EVENTS: Scandinavian Star ship fire, New Democracy wins Greek elections, collapse of the Communist world, Jose De Vega's and Ryan White's deaths from AIDS

8:03 MORE ON TWIN PEAKS' TV CONTEXT including the Grand opening theme

9:13 OUTRO w/ the two TV themes

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EPISODE LINKS

Max Monroe: Loose Cannon opening (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwDFdumKEv4

Grand 1990 TV theme song Bonnie Hunt, Pamela Reed, Sara Rue, Michael McKean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSWrEZ8q5ck

Browse a visual copy of the entire April 9, 1990 TIME Magazine: https://time.com/vault/issue/1990-04-09/page/1/

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