History Series / TwentyTwenty

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo3tOPDCV6U 1989-90]]: The ABC News logo of the time, this one without a globe (it was like this until 1982 or '83), passes diagonally across the screen, while a piece of reflective material enters. This reflective material is then revealed to make up the bottom of one of the 20s in the title (the right-hand one); we pass along that bottom as it is built up. We then zoom out from that 20, and move to the left, where the other 20 enters, as four more pieces of reflective mirror material come in behind the two 20s to make a background for the title. The slash mark between the 20s then comes in as the title is completed and the mirror background shines and becomes transparent. This opening, however, has only auditory billing of Downs and Walters before the title is announced; it's also the first one with the iconic opening line, "From ABC News...around the world and into your home, the stories that touch your life...with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters, this is ''20/20''." This opening is also the first to have the dateline read aloud by Bob Cruz, where he says, "Those stories tonight: (date of broadcast)."

This PrimeTimeNews series on Creator/{{ABC}} began in 1978. Longtime anchors [[Series/{{Concentration}} Hugh Downs]] and Creator/BarbaraWalters previously worked together on Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/{{Today}}''. Reporters on ''20/20'' have included Creator/JohnStossel, Creator/GeraldoRivera, Creator/LynnSherr, Creator/DavidMuir, Creator/BobBrown and the ever-popular Creator/SylviaChase. Began as a hard-news program, but slowly devolved until it is now mainly a purveyor of MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome stories and fawning celebrity profiles (though it still does solid investigative pieces from time to time).

This PrimeTimeNews series on Creator/{{ABC}} began in 1978. Longtime anchors [[Series/{{Concentration}} Hugh Downs]] and Barbara Walters previously worked together on Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/{{Today}}''. Reporters on ''20/20'' have included Creator/JohnStossel, Creator/GeraldoRivera, Creator/LynnSherr, Creator/DavidMuir, Creator/BobBrown and the ever-popular Creator/SylviaChase. Began as a hard-news program, but slowly devolved until it is now mainly a purveyor of MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome stories, fawning celebrity profiles, and Creator/BarbaraWalters interviews (though it still does solid investigative pieces from time to time).

* HollywoodExorcism: A much-hyped 1991 episode featured video of Catholic priest James [=LeBar=] performing an exorcism on a teenage girl named Gina, with the approval of church leaders (on the grounds that it exposed how Satan works in the modern world). While the unusual nature of the ritual and the histrionics of the girl made it oddly compelling television, it became a big center of controversy, particularly when it was revealed that Gina was a psychiatric patient, leading to accusations that the show was exploiting mental illness for ratings.

!!Tropes:

-->''"[[SigningOffCatchPhrase We're in touch, so you'll be in touch.]]"''

* AuthorTract: Many of John Stossel's segments were accused of being biased in favor of his well-known libertarian views.".

* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "We're in touch, so you be in touch

* AuthorTract: Many of John Stossel's segments were accused of being biased in favor of his well-known libertarian views.

%%* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome:
%%* TrueCrime:

''We're in touch so you'll be in touch.''

By the 2010s, the show only aired a handful of times a year.

* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome:
* NetworkDecay: More like Program Decay, but applicable.
* TrueCrime:

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This PrimeTimeNews series on Creator/{{ABC}} began in 1978. Longtime anchors [[Series/{{Concentration}} Hugh Downs]] and Barbara Walters previously worked together on Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/{{Today}}''. Reporters on ''20/20'' have included John Stossel, Geraldo Rivera, Lynn Sherr, Creator/DavidMuir, Bob Brown and the ever-popular Sylvia Chase. Began as a hard-news program, but slowly devolved until it is now mainly a purveyor of MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome stories, fawning celebrity profiles, and Creator/BarbaraWalters interviews (though it still does solid investigative pieces from time to time).

This PrimeTimeNews series on Creator/{{ABC}} began in 1978. Longtime anchors [[Series/{{Concentration}} Hugh Downs]] and Barbara Walters previously worked together on Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/{{Today}}''. Reporters on ''20/20'' have included John Stossel, Geraldo Rivera, Lynn Sherr, Creator/DavidMuir, Bob Brown and the ever-popular Sylvia Chase. Began as a hard-news program, but slowly devolved until it is now mainly a purveyor of MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome stories, fawning celebrity profiles, and Barbara Walters interviews (though it still does solid investigative pieces from time to time).

This PrimeTimeNews series on Creator/{{ABC}} began in 1978. Longtime anchors Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters previously worked together on Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/{{Today}}''. Reporters on ''20/20'' have included John Stossel, Geraldo Rivera, Lynn Sherr, Creator/DavidMuir, Bob Brown and the ever-popular Sylvia Chase. Began as a hard-news program but slowly devolved until it is now mainly a purveyor of MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome stories, fawning celebrity profiles, and Barbara Walters interviews (though it still does solid investigative pieces from time to time).

This PrimeTimeNews series on Creator/{{ABC}} began in 1978. Longtime anchors Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters previously worked together on Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/{{Today}}''. Reporters on ''20/20'' have included John Stossel, Geraldo Rivera, Lynn Sherr, Creator/DavidMuir, Bob Brown and the ever-popular Sylvia Chase. Began as a hard-news program but slowly devolved until it is now mainly a purveyor of MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome stories, fawning celebrity profiles, and Barbara Walters interviews.

* StartMyOwn When John Stossel left 20/20 for Fox Business he started his own show "Stossel".
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome
* TrueCrime

This PrimeTimeNews series on Creator/{{ABC}} began in 1978. Longtime anchors Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters previously worked together on Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/{{Today}}''. Reporters on ''20/20'' have included John Stossel, Geraldo Rivera, Lynn Sherr, Bob Brown and the ever-popular Sylvia Chase. Began as a hard-news program but slowly devolved until it is now mainly a purveyor of MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome stories, fawning celebrity profiles, and Barbara Walters interviews.

* FaceHeelTurn: John Stossel. He started as the show's consumer advocate and evolved into a champion of ''corporations''' rights. He went to FoxNews when ''20/20'' went all-TrueCrime, all the time.
* LongRunner

This PrimeTimeNews series on Creator/{{ABC}} began in 1978. Longtime anchors Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters previously worked together on Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''{{Today}}''. Reporters on ''20/20'' have included John Stossel, Geraldo Rivera, Lynn Sherr, Bob Brown and the ever-popular Sylvia Chase. Began as a hard-news program but slowly devolved until it is now mainly a purveyor of MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome stories, fawning celebrity profiles, and Barbara Walters interviews.

!!Tropes featured include:

* FaceHeelTurn: John Stossel. He started as the show's consumer advocate and evolved into a champion of ''corporations''' rights. He went to FoxNews when 20/20 went all-TrueCrime, all the time.

* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: those shows that are all celebrity profiles, and the People of the Year episodes.
* YetAnotherBabyPanda: the real specialty of latter-day 20/20.

This PrimeTimeNews series on {{ABC}} began in 1978. Longtime anchors Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters previously worked together on {{NBC}}'s ''{{Today}}''. Reporters on ''20/20'' have included John Stossel, Geraldo Rivera, Lynn Sherr, Bob Brown and the ever-popular Sylvia Chase. Began as a hard-news program but slowly devolved until it is now mainly a purveyor of MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome stories, fawning celebrity profiles, and Barbara Walters interviews.

* FaceHeelTurn: John Stossel. He started as the show's consumer advocate and evolved into a champion of ''corporations''' rights. He went to FoxNews when 20/20 went all-TrueCrime, all the time.