45/85
| 45/85 | |
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| Genre | Television documentary | 
| Written by | 
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| Directed by | Roger Goodman | 
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| Country of origin | United States | 
| Original language | English | 
| No. of episodes | 1 | 
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Av Westin | 
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| Production locations | New York, NY | 
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| Running time | 3:00:00 | 
| Production company | ABC News | 
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| Network | ABC | 
| Release | September 15, 1985 | 
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| Our World | |
45/85 is an ABC News television documentary. It aired on September 18, 1985. The three-hour program combined archive film and television footage with new interviews to document post-World War II history, focusing especially on the Cold War. That special was produced by Av Westin, who also produced Our World.
Ted Koppel and Peter Jennings were the co-anchors. The executive producer of the broadcast was Av Westin and it was written by Koppel, Jennings and senior producer Pete Simmons. 45/85 featured interviews with then President Ronald Reagan, as well as interviews with every living former President, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. In a stylistic innovation, 45/85 confined itself in its other interviews to people who were eyewitnesses and participants of the events they described, rather than historians or "experts."
The success of 45/85 led ABC to create the documentary series Our World in 1986. Our World, with a similar format blending archive footage and eyewitness interviews, was critically acclaimed but low-rated and ABC canceled it after a single season.