Issues and Answers

Issues and Answers was a weekly Sunday morning talk show telecast by the American Broadcasting Company from November 27, 1960^[1] to November 8, 1981. At the time, Sunday morning talk shows as they are now carried actually aired in mid-afternoons on Sundays before sports divisions had taken over the time slot in full, and the network distributed the show either live airing or for later broadcast to its affiliates (though interviews were often recorded in the later part of the previous week on Thursdays or Fridays).

Issues and Answers
Presented by	Howard K. Smith Bob Clark
Opening theme	Second Suite in F for Military Band, Movement III: "Song of the Blacksmith" (Op. 28, No. 2)
Composer	Gustav Holst
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Peggy Whedon
Running time	appx. 30 minutes
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	November 27, 1960 (1960-11-27) – November 8, 1981 (1981-11-08)
Related
This Week (successor)

Issues and Answers was ABC's counterpart to NBC's Meet the Press and CBS's Face the Nation. It featured TV reporters interviewing selected newsmakers of the contemporary time period – mainly domestic and foreign government officials and other insiders. Unlike the other networks' news-interview TV programs, which featured newspaper and radio reporters along with TV correspondents, Issues and Answers more commonly featured only personnel from ABC News.

For its entire run it was produced by Margaret "Peggy" Whedon, one of ABC's first female correspondents.^[2]

Issues and Answers aired its last edition on November 8, 1981, and replaced on November 15 by the re-formatted and hour-long This Week with David Brinkley, which remains on the air as of 2025, and now features George Stephanopoulos as moderator.^[3]