S1E4's Current Events - What was going on at the time?

Lost in Twin Peaks

Episode 4E Notes: Other TV shows this night, #1 movie this weekend, in the news this day & TIME cover this week

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0:00 TV CONTEXT: when it aired, ratings, counterprogramming: Falcon Crest, Cheers, Wings + other shows this night, ABC bookends: Father Dowling Mysteries, Peter Jennings Reporting From the Killing Fields

5:22 HISTORICAL CONTEXT including #1 MOVIE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / TIME COVER: Dan Quayle / WORLD EVENTS: Chinese earthquake, New Kids on the Block stuffed animal injury, Colombian presidential candidate Leongómez assassinated

7:51 OUTRO clip from the Cambodia special

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EPISODE LINKS

Browse a visual copy of the entire April 23, 1990 TIME Magazine: https://time.com/vault/issue/1990-04-23/page/1/

Dan Quayle clip in "Prime Time Live" special on Twin Peaks https://youtu.be/uZmHyiOZBj0?t=37

ABC News: “Peter Jennings Reporting: From the Killing Fields” | 1991 duPont-Columbia Award Winner (video) https://vimeo.com/75241378

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