February 28, 1984 - Part one of the three-part series "Juvenile Justice in Minnesota: Who's Minding Our Kids?"
March 13, 1984 - Part three of the series "Juvenile Justice in Minnesota: Who's Minding Our Kids?"
July 25, 1984 - PLEASE NOTE - The broadcast contains explicit language and graphic descriptions. Fred de Sam Lazaro, WSCD-Duluth reporter, presents a documentary investigating child abuse in northeastern Minnesota. The first widely publicized case of incest or child sexual abuse was the Cermak family - grandparents, uncles, aunts and parents, who were convicted about a year ago of repeated sexual abuse of children from their infancy through adolescence. Since the Cermaks, numerous other cases have been uncovered, and the prosecutor of the Cermak case, Kathleen Morris, says the problem is far more prevalent than most of us would like to believe.
August 11, 1984 - MPR’s Mark Heistad presents a profile of famed baseball infielder Harmon Killebrew, who played most of his 22-year MLB career with the Minnesota Twins. Power hitting was what he was best known for, being given the nicknames "the Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon." Now Killebrew is about to be the first Twin to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
February 18, 1985 - MPR’s Mark Heistad presents an MPR documentary, titled "When Farmers Took a Holiday." Little more than a half century ago Midwestern farmers staged a revolt against the Depression era farm crisis. This documentary reexamines the Farmer's Holiday Association movement through stories of farmers, political figures, bankers, and others.
May 7, 1985 - Special segment on the "very old", those who have lived more than one hundred years. The program is entitled "voices of age: life after one hundred", and was produced by John Biewen of MPR.
May 27, 1985 - WWII marks a watershed in the life of this nation and in the lives of all who lived through it. In the documentary “We Were the Lucky Ones,” MPR’s Mark Heistad examines the experience of the war and its legacy through the stories of residents of New Ulm, many of which were German-American.
August 23, 1985 - Recollections of World War II as told by residents of New Ulm, Minnesota. Their stories were told to former Minnesota Public Radio producer Mark Heistad, who now teaches journalism at the University of St. Thomas. This documentary was produced with a grant from the Minnesota Historical Society.
August 28, 1985 - Jerry Cassidy examines issues of Indian hunting and fishing rights in his documentary "American Indians in the 1980s: New Struggles for Old Rights." Program includes numerous interviews and commentary on treaty rights.
September 2, 1985 - MPR’s Mark Heistad presents "The Strike is On!," an oral history of the early labor movement in Minnesota, with emphasis on the struggle to organize Iron Range workers, Austin’s Hormel strike, the Minneapolis truckers strike of 1934, and more.