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Perhaps that was his greatest innovation - bringing the audience, both in the studio and at home, into the process. "Women were able to call and talk about water retention and breakthrough bleeding!" Donahue remembers, with great enthusiasm. One early show discussed the pros and cons of birth control pills.
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We were faced with a daily professional reality: Phyllis Diller isn't available, so you'd better come up with issues people care about."įrom the beginning, Donahue's formula combined newsmakers and provocateurs - his first guest was atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, followed a few days later by a leader of the Mattachine Society (dedicated to equality for homosexuals) - with shows about family, relationships, consumerism (Ralph Nader was Donahue's single most frequent guest). "It wasn't any prescient gift on our part.
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"We had to do what was left to us - issues," Donahue says. No stars, either: Dayton was too far from anywhere to attract celebrities. "No band, no couch, no desk, no announcer, and a studio audience" inherited from the canceled show, Donahue remembers. A popular variety show had been canceled and Donahue, a local radio interviewer, was given its morning time slot. It may be difficult, in a decade when new talk shows pop up like mushrooms after rain, to grasp how radical an approach the original "Phil Donahue Show" represented. Its host was not about to give William Bennett, who excoriated talk shows last fall as "an indicator of social decline," the last word. "Donahue" and its offspring have changed the culture and changed with the culture. In fact, Donahue had said very little in the months since his decision to end his long run was announced in January.īut in his last week, as media interest intensified, he was willing to burnish his history a bit, take a few final potshots at his critics, muse about the future. "It's not fun talking about your death, y'know," he said earlier in the week, relaxing in his office in jeans and a plaid shirt and round glasses. It's the first time that's been true since Donahue, 60, was a student broadcaster at Notre Dame in the '50s. But after today, "I have no professional commitments," he says.
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And the shows he's completed, plus reruns, will be shown on affiliates around the country (including Channel 9 in Washington) into the summer. He'll be much in the news for a day or two. "If that's a revolution, okay, we're happy to be part of it." "We've had some sea changes in our culture, and we were able to offer a platform where people could talk about them," Donahue replied. Someone asked if he thought he'd launched a revolution. "We never thought we'd last 29 days," Donahue told a raft of reporters after the studio audience had filed out and the cameras were turned off. The caller, as Donahue always referred to a questioner on the phone, will have to dial Ricki Lake instead.
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The man who virtually invented the single-topic talk show - and made it so powerful and profitable a force in daytime TV that a swarm of imitators muscled in and eventually drove him from the airwaves - has put down his mike. He trotted out to field a few last questions from the audience.įinally, his staff popped the corks on a few dozen bottles of champagne and doused him with the contents until his pin-striped suit and trademark white hair were soaked.Īfter almost 29 years and nearly 7,000 shows, after 20 Emmy Awards, after interviews with presidents, generals, cross-dressers, crusaders, adulterers and Nobel laureates, Phil Donahue videotaped his last show today. He showed highlights from the past: two men in tuxedos exchanging wedding vows on the air, footage of an abortion performed at a Chicago clinic, Jane Fonda calling Richard Nixon a war criminal.