Saturday Adoption (1968)
- Directed by
- Delbert Mann
- Country
- United States
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A white college student volunteers to tutor city kids and meets a young black man named Macy. They talk about the divide between black and white communities in the 1960s.
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What happens
"Saturday Adoption" is the second television play episode of the second season of the American television series CBS Playhouse. The episode tells the story of a young white man about to enter law school who meets a young black man, Macy, when he volunteers to tutor urban youths. The episode discusses the issues surrounding the differences between the black and white worlds of the time. The episode was broadcast December 4, 1968, and is noteworthy as the CBS Playhouse entry with the youngest writer, Ron Cowen, at 23 years of age. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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