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<p><i>Issues and Answers</i> was a weekly <a href="/facts/Sunday_morning_talk_show/1wU6jlET">Sunday morning talk show</a> <a href="/facts/Broadcasting/AV1f3dGy">telecast</a> by the <a href="/facts/American_Broadcasting_Company/WGxg4vRX">American Broadcasting Company</a> from November 27, 1960 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 <a href="/facts/Broadcast_delay/CysCLLL4">later broadcast</a> to its affiliates (though interviews were often recorded in the later part of the previous week on Thursdays or Fridays). </p><p><i>Issues and Answers</i> was ABC's counterpart to <a href="/facts/NBC/zyfTYCvW">NBC</a>'s <i><a href="/facts/Meet_the_Press/tppdUQov">Meet the Press</a></i> and <a href="/facts/CBS/AocpVt6Q">CBS</a>'s <i><a href="/facts/Face_the_Nation/G4BXBVLI">Face the Nation</a></i>. 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 <a href="/facts/Newspaper/q4waJGVL">newspaper</a> and <a href="/facts/Radio/XFr909M2">radio</a> reporters along with TV correspondents, <i>Issues and Answers</i> more commonly featured only personnel from <a href="/facts/ABC_News_(United_States)/YqpUd76C">ABC News</a>. </p><p>For its entire run it was produced by Margaret "Peggy" Whedon, one of ABC's first female correspondents. </p><p><i>Issues and Answers</i> aired its last edition on November 8, 1981, and replaced on November 15 by the re-formatted and hour-long <i><a href="/facts/This_Week_(American_TV_program)/6C2Inaqh">This Week</a> with <a href="/facts/David_Brinkley/hB5Q4YqU">David Brinkley</a></i>, which remains on the air as of 2025, and now features <a href="/facts/George_Stephanopoulos/hRIRn5SU">George Stephanopoulos</a> as moderator. </p>