Against the Odds

TV Series
1982–1984
TV-G
30m

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Bill Bixby hosts a collection of biographical stories of the lives of famous people who changed history from Golda Meir to Mahatma Gandhi to Pancho Villa to Florence Nightingale and many oth... Read allBill Bixby hosts a collection of biographical stories of the lives of famous people who changed history from Golda Meir to Mahatma Gandhi to Pancho Villa to Florence Nightingale and many others.Bill Bixby hosts a collection of biographical stories of the lives of famous people who changed history from Golda Meir to Mahatma Gandhi to Pancho Villa to Florence Nightingale and many others.

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- Cy Schneider
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7.7/10

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Creator
- Cy Schneider
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Bill Bixby

Self - Host

• 1983

Phil Proctor

Self - Narrator

• 1983

Virginia Capers

(1983)

Peter Brooks

(1983)

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10larrywagmancpa

Great Show For Smart Kids

Watched this show on Nickelodeon. Great summary of historical figures. Very informative, still remember parts of this as I think of historical figures. Wish we had more TV shows like this today. Would love to get my hands on the entire library.

paul51

This show depressed me...

...because it signaled bedtime.

Being a kid, I never was too interested in watching Against the Odds...a very odd choice for a show to appear on Nickelodeon right before the "sign off" around 8-9pm (this was prior to Nick At Nite, it was called something else in those days).

I think my fondest memory of it was Bill Bixby unexpectedly showing up at the beginning of an episode of "Out of Control" starring Dave Coulier, who asked Bixby if he could change into the Hulk for him. Bixby explained he was in the wrong studio, he'd meant to go to the one where they were filming "Against the Odds".