Aftermath with William Shatner - Season 2
Season 2
Episodes
Ed Smart--Bringing Home Elizabeth
Ed Smart lived every parent's worst nightmare--the abduction of a child. But when Smart's 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth was kidnapped at knifepoint in 2002, the nightmare turned even more horrible when suspicion fell on Smart and his family themselves.
Baby Jessica--Robbie & Casey O' Donnell
When 18-month-old "Baby Jessica" fell down an abandoned well in 1987, the world was riveted by the efforts of the rescue team that included fireman Robert O'Donnell. But the overwhelming media attention left O'Donnell feeling hollowed-out and betrayed, and his life spiraled downward.
The Pentagon Papers--Daniel Ellsberg
When defense expert Daniel Ellsberg worked on a secret government study in 1969 about the Vietnam War, he realized that American leaders were lying to the public, they knew it was not a winnable war. Ellsberg decided to secretly copy the study and give it the nation's top newspapers. The "Pentagon Papers" became a national scandal.
Chilean Mine Rescuer: Jeff Hart
When 33 miners were trapped in a Chilean mine, a desperate call went out to Jeff Hart, asking him to assemble a team and fly 10,000 miles to Chile to save the men. Hart and his crew had spent their entire working lives drilling for oil and water, but now they were drilling to save lives.
The Mayflower Madam: Sydney Biddle Barrows
It was the most notorious sex scandal of the 1980s: the arrest of Sydney Biddle Barrows--a blue-blood debutante, a descendant of the Mayflower, a name in the Social Register... and a Madam of a high-priced call girl service. William Shatner talks with Ms. Barrows to find out how a high-society dame found herself working the underground sex scene.
The Insider: Jeffrey Wigand
He's been called "The Man Who Knew Too Much" -- Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, a top scientist for a top tobacco company, who became the first insider who blew the whistle on Big Tobacco: what they knew about the deadly addictiveness of nicotine, and how many millions of dollars they spent covering that information up.
Recently Updated Shows
48 Hours
48 Hours is a CBS news magazine that investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, driven the reopening -- and resolution -- of cold cases, and changed numerous lives. CBS News correspondents offer an in-depth look into each story, with the emphasis on solving the mystery at its heart. The program and its team have earned critical acclaim, including 20 Emmys and three Peabody Awards.
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is an Emmy Award-winning late-night comedy showcase.
Since its inception in 1975, "SNL" has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of their generation. As The New York Times noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy-winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999, "in defiance of both time and show business convention, 'SNL' is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture." At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.
Children Ruin Everything
Children Ruin Everything is one couple's efforts to reclaim a piece of their old lives which are continually thwarted by their young children in surprising and absurd ways. But somewhere in the toy-filled, pee-stained wreckage of what they once had, they find a new life that's pretty good, too.
