Show of the week: American Story With Bob Dotson
NBC's prime-time special on the profiles that garnered Bob Dotson four Emmys will air on Christmas Eve.
For more than 30 years, NBC correspondent Bob Dotson has captured the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. There was the ex–truck driver who became a renowned surgery teacher; the street vendor who sold enough $5 potato peelers to buy a Park Avenue apartment; and the man who built a golf course for his handicapped son. Dotson also profiled communities, such as a colony of Russian Orthodox Old Believers in Alaska. On Christmas Eve, the profiles that garnered him four Emmys are featured in a prime-time special. Thursday, Dec. 24, at 8 p.m., MSNBC
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