Season 1 (1983) Frontlines first season, in 1983, was the only season to have
Jessica Savitch as its host (Savitch died in October of that year).
Season 2 (1984) Season 2 of
Frontline saw
Judy Woodruff become the show's host after Jessica Savitch's death.
Season 3 (1985) Season 4 (1986) During its fourth season,
Frontline presented
Comrades, a 12-part documentary series that originally aired on the
BBC in
Great Britain.
Comrades profiled everyday life in and citizens of the
Soviet Union through interviews and
fly on the wall filming.
Frontlines presentation of
Comrades featured "wraparound" segments where host
Judy Woodruff interviewed
Richard Denton and other
Comrades producers about the episode's background.
Season 5 (1987) The end of
Frontlines 5th season featured the documentary
Apartheid. Spanning over 3 centuries, the 5-part historical documentary looked into the background and practice by
South Africa's government of
apartheid, the institutionalized form of
racial segregation that favored the country's white minority at the expense of its indigenous black population.
Season 6 (1988) Season 7 (1989) Frontlines 7th season was
Judy Woodruff's last as on-air host.
Season 8 (1990) Beginning with Season 8,
Frontline would eschew from using a regular on-air host, using an off-screen narrator to introduce each episode. As part of its 8th season,
Frontline aired the 4-part documentary
The Decade of Destruction. Produced by
Adrian Cowell, the series spotlighted the
destruction of
Brazil's
Amazon rainforest, regarded as one of Earth's "last great frontier[s]", during the decade of the 1980s.
Season 9 (1991) Season 10 (1992) Season 11 (1993) Season 12 (1994) Season 13 (1995) Season 14 (1996) Season 15 (1997) Season 16 (1998) Season 17 (1999) Season 18 (2000) Season 19 (2001) Season 20 (2002) Season 21 (2003) Season 22 (2004) Season 23 (2005) Season 24 (2006) Season 25 (2007) As part of its 25th season,
Frontline presented a four-part series titled
News War. Featuring 3
Frontline episodes and a fourth on its offshoot series
Frontline World,
News War explored the news media's reaction to the various internal and external forces (political, cultural, legal, economic) that changes and challenges its role in society.
News War was a co-production of
Frontline and the
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Season 26 (2008) Season 27 (2009) Season 28 (2010) Season 29 (2011) Season 30 (2012) Season 31 (2013) Season 32 (2014) Season 33 (2015) Season 34 (2016) Season 35 (2017) Season 36 (2018) Season 37 (2019) Season 38 (2020) Season 39 (2021) Season 40 (2022) Season 41 (2023) Season 42 (2024) Season 43 (2025) Season 44 (2026) == References ==