The Phil Donahue show was a groundbreaking talk show in the late 1980s-early 1990's that discussed topics in a reasoned, thoughtful manner. Phil was the Emmy Award winning king of daytime television before Oprah, who at the time was just branching out from a morning talk shop on a local Chicago television station in 1986.
Here's a clip from a Donahue show with illusionist Grae Phillips. Note the haters that called in
