Original sentence: Eastern Time, shifting to 6 p.However, some episodes focused on contemporary subjects, such as "The Violent World of Sam Huff," a behind-the-scenes profile of the New York Giants football player which originally aired on October 30, 1960.It was hosted and narrated by Walter Cronkite and telecast Sunday evenings (originally at 6:30 p.Its theme music was written by American composer George Antheil.Museum of Broadcast Communications Page on The Twentieth Century.The Johns Hopkins Science Review (1948-1955), another educational series with a long run on commercial network television.The Twentieth Century at IMDB.The Twentieth Century was a half-hour documentary television series broadcast over CBS-TV from 1957 until 1966.The Twentieth Century won two Emmy Awards, and was succeeded in January 1967 by The 21st Century, a slightly different documentary series focusing on the future, which lasted until January 1970.The original series has been broadcast by many other worldwide TV networks, such as RAI in Italy and TSI in Italian-speaking Switzerland, with the title Aria del ventesimo secolo (Breath of Twentieth Century).The series covered significant events of the era, including World War II, and consisted largely of newsreel footage.The series was sponsored by Prudential Insurance.Two and a half decades later, a series with a similar format and name, 20th Century with Mike Wallace premiered on cable TVs History Channel.in the fall of 1961)