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Trivia segment on Dateline NBC in which viewers were asked to name in what year certain events happened. Hosted by Jane Pauley about halfway through an episode, she would name five things that happened the week the program aired but a number of years earlier, and show clips pertaining to them. First she mentioned two news events, then a movie that was a hit that week, then a popular TV show of that time, and then a song that was a hit that week. Then Jane gave a choice of three consecutive years as to when these events happened (earlier versions had her giving six years). Then they would cut off to a commercial and when returning from the commercial, they would replay a sample of the song from that year and Jane Pauley would reveal the year. The year was somewhere between the early 50s and early 90s, though years at either extreme were rarely used. The things related to the year she mentioned tended to include major ones, so a person with a good knowledge of dates often would get nearly every Timeline right. Dateline Timeline debuted in June 1993 and was a popular segment on the program throughout the 1990s. Other outlets also used the Dateline Timeline format at that time for their trivia segments. The frequency of episodes having a Dateline Timeline has been declining in the 2000s, as Dateline has been focusing more on single, episode-length segments and other features. It was also common in the early 2000s for older Dateline Timelines to be recycled. This was particularly noticeable when they would have Jane Pauley reveal the Timeline year and then have her introducing the following segment having a noticeably older-sounding voice. Dateline Timeline continued to be featured sporadically after Jane Pauley left Dateline NBC in 2003, with Stone Phillips now hosting the segment.
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