Best of Enemies presents the war of words that took place between liberal author and social commentator Gore Vidal and right-wing zealot and talk show host, Bill Buckley in 1968. As vicious opponents of each other's beliefs, the then-flagging ABC network had the ingenious idea of putting them together to debate the results of the Democratic and Republican conventions.
It was a shot in the dark, but one that changed television as until that point the news was meant to cement ideas not disrupt them.

Listening to these incredible now-deceased orators attack one another is not only hugely entertaining to watch, but it's a lesson in the use of the English language from Americans no less. Though they rarely got to discuss politics in any depth, Gore and Bill were the first to realise that there are two things you never turn down - sex and politics. At one they were both electric.