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20/20

  • TV Series
  • 1978–
  • TV-14
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
3K
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Deborah Roberts and David Muir in 20/20 (1978)
20/20
Play trailer0:17
8 Videos
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NewsDocumentary

ABC's original hour-long news magazine.ABC's original hour-long news magazine.ABC's original hour-long news magazine.

  • Creator
    • Roone Arledge
  • Stars
    • David Muir
    • Amy Robach
    • Elizabeth Vargas
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Creator
      • Roone Arledge
    • Stars
      • David Muir
      • Amy Robach
      • Elizabeth Vargas
    • 40User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 49 wins & 87 nominations total

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    David Muir
    David Muir
    • Self - Co-Host…
    • 2013–2025
    Amy Robach
    Amy Robach
    • Self - Co-Host…
    • 2012–2022
    Elizabeth Vargas
    Elizabeth Vargas
    • Self - Co-Hostess…
    • 1998–2022
    Deborah Roberts
    Deborah Roberts
    • Self - Co-Host…
    • 1997–2025
    Barbara Walters
    Barbara Walters
    • Self - Host…
    • 1984–2022
    John Stossel
    John Stossel
    • Self - Correspondent (segment "Give Me a Break")…
    • 1984–2009
    John Quiñones
    John Quiñones
    • Self…
    • 1998–2025
    Dan Abrams
    Dan Abrams
    • Self - ABC News Chief Legal Analyst…
    • 2015–2024
    Matt Murphy
    Matt Murphy
    • Self - ABC News Legal Contributor…
    • 2016–2025
    Brian Ross
    Brian Ross
    • Self - Correspondent…
    • 1998–2018
    Chris Connelly
    Chris Connelly
    • Self - Correspondent…
    • 2003–2025
    Diane Sawyer
    Diane Sawyer
    • Self - Correspondent…
    • 1998–2022
    Matt Gutman
    Matt Gutman
    • Self - ABC News Chief National Correspondent…
    • 2012–2025
    Chris Cuomo
    Chris Cuomo
    • Self…
    • 2003–2019
    Janai Norman
    • Self
    • 2020
    Pat Lalama
    • Self - ABC News Contributor…
    • 2020–2025
    JuJu Chang
    JuJu Chang
    • Self - ABC News Correspondent…
    • 2002–2025
    Hugh Downs
    Hugh Downs
    • Self - Host…
    • 1978–2007
    • Creator
      • Roone Arledge
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    PatrynXX

    20/20 going down the tubes.

    Guess I should have figured John Stossel was becoming corrupt. The minute he said that drug companies should be charging high prices to seniors, he lost me as a fan.

    The show truely became stale when Hugh Downs left. :( Hugh and Barbara were a team. No wonder she's leaving. Probably can't stand John.

    Frankly when she leaves, the closest competitor to 20/20? Bill O Rielly. I'm guessing it won't last long if John's the sole host.

    Give me a break!!
    6cjcampidonica

    Background music

    The show is interesting...however LOWER the cotton-picking background music!! If you want people to watch and hear what the shows about... LOWER the cotton-picking background music!!! I'm going to keep watching for a few more episodes, and if you haven't LOWERED the cotton-picking background music...you've lost me as a watcher. Don't know how much weight my little review carries, but maybe there are others who feel the same as I do. Let's hear it folks, I can't be the only one who thinks the background music is overpowering. How can you decide if you like the show if you have no idea what's being said. Thank you for listening!
    6randallkbridges

    Should shorten episodes

    I enjoy the content but it seems like 3-4x an episode they review everything you've already seen. It gets very annoying as they act like you have the memory of a gold fish
    4todd-ramirez

    A hot mess; repetitious; loud music adds no value

    This used to be okay. But lately narrators repeat the same info 3-4 times. And some details are not necessary; they don't move the story along. A 2-hour episode can be done in half the time.

    The music background is too loud and adds zero value to the story. Come on, it's not a music video. Stop the cheesy music score.

    The chronology in the storytelling is a hot mess. Throughout 75% of an episode you're more and more confused. Only in the last 25 minutes do things come together and you piece things together and understand - finally - what's going on. ABC, you're not making an M. Night Shyamalan film. Don't feel obliged to have twists and turns and spectacular reveals. Lately I have been so lost halfway in an episode that I just stop watching to get me out of my misery. I did exactly that just now. I recorded the episode, started watching but when I found myself uninterested and bored, I just stopped, deleted the episode and canceled the series recording.

    Dateline NBC is 10 times better. Great storytelling. Soft, unobtrusive music that you hardly notice is there. Chronology logically builds and builds to an exciting conclusion in the last 15 minutes but throughout the journey, you're fully comprehending the progression of the story.
    4embmw

    Fall from Grace

    Once upon a time 20/20 offered outstanding investigative pieces by quality journalists such as John Stossel. So how did it get to the point where too-skeezy-for-TMZ Nancy Grace is now featured?!?! Nancy Grace??? Really???

    Is this really the direction ABC wants to take its premier news magazine? There are plenty of tabloid TV shows on the air and, after the addition of Nancy Grace, most of them are more credible than 20/20. It's almost unbelievable that ABC is setting its sights so low these days.

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    • Trivia
      In 1998, ABC News combined 20/20 (1978), with Primetime (1989) to compete with Dateline NBC (1992) which aired four days a week, then. The newest programs were titled "20/20 Monday", "20/20 Wednesday", "20/20 Friday", "20/20 Sunday", and Downtown (1999). (So there would be a program, would televise daily through out the seven day week. In 2000, ABC News returned 20/20 (1978) and Primetime (1989) to their previous hours. ABC kept its newest creation, Downtown (1999), as a spin-off, of 20/20 (1978).
    • Quotes

      Hugh Downs - Co-Anchor: I'm Hugh Downs

      Barbara Walters - Correspondent: And I'm Barbara Walters and this is 20/20.

    • Connections
      Edited into And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (2004)

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    • Release date
      • June 6, 1978 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • ABC News
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • ABC News 20/20
    • Production companies
      • ABC News
      • Rock'n Robin Productions
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      • 1h(60 min)
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 16:9 HD

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