20/20

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20/20 can refer to eyesight of standard visual acuity - see Eye chart. See also Twenty20 for the form of one-day cricket.

{{Infobox Television | show_name = 20/20 | image = Image:2020 LOGO new 2004.jpg | format = Newsmagazine | runtime = 1 hour | creator = Roone Arledge | starring = John Stossel, Elizabeth Vargas | country = United States | network = ABC | num_episodes = N/A | first_aired = June 6, 1978 | last_aired = present | imdb_id = 0124932 | tv_com_id = 1752 }}

20/20 is an American television newsmagazine broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. The show was created by Roone Arledge.

The original hosts were veteran journalists Harold Hayes and Robert Hughes. That first program was written off as a colossal failure by critics, and Hayes and Hughes were replaced the following week by former game show and Today host Hugh Downs. Downs was later joined in 1984 by Barbara Walters (they had previously been co-hosts of Today together).

Downs retired in 1999 and Walters became the solo news anchor until 2002 when John Miller was hired to be permanent co-host of the series. Miller left and was replaced by John Stossel in 2003. Walters left the co-anchor position in 2004 to be replaced by Elizabeth Vargas.

The distinctive theme music to 20/20 was written by Robert Arnold Israel and based upon ABC's World News Tonight theme written by Lillian Scheinert.

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