SERIES

Captains and the Kings

19761 Season60m episodes8.8

Drama

TMDB8.8

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: US

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Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

Details

Writing: Taylor Caldwell, Douglas Heyes, Elinor Karpf
Status: Ended
First aired: Sep 30, 1976
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television, Roy Huggins-Public Arts Productions

Time to finish

8 hrs

8 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

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SERIES

Captains and the Kings

19761 Season60m episodes8.8

Drama

TMDB8.8

Votes4

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: US

About

Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Sep 30, 1976 · 2h 0m
Chapter I
Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh and his two younger siblings Sean and Mary escape a ship on the harbor of New York. The situation ashore is problematic, jobs are scarce and food equally scarce. Aboard the ship their mother has died from disease, but they have a hope; their father is in Philadelphia awaiting them. The siblings run away, and discovers their father to be dead to, and young teenager Joseph places his siblings in an Orphanage while he himself goes to make money, become rich and get them out of poverty. The first episode follows Joseph for a few years through a series of struggles, and how he starts earning his first dollars and setting off into speculation in oil, together with his new-won friend, the Lebanese Haroun Al-Zieff (later: Harry Seff). The beginnings of a true rags-to-riches-story.
E2 · Airs Oct 7, 1976 · 1h 0m
Chapter II
A few years of successful gun running and Joseph Armagh becomes a partner in the oil company of Ed Healey.
E3 · Airs Oct 14, 1976 · 1h 0m
Chapter III
Joseph Armagh rejects the love of Elizabeth Healey, learns of the dying Katherine Hennessey's unrequited love, promising to wed her daughter Bernadette before Katherine's jealous husband goes too far in a salacious attack on Joseph.
E4 · Airs Oct 28, 1976 · 1h 0m
Chapter IV
Tensions escalate between the labor unions and the railroad, as Joseph Armagh fathers four children with Bernadette even as he seeks to avenge himself on her father for depriving him of the two great loves of his life.
E5 · Airs Nov 4, 1976 · 1h 0m
Chapter V
Joseph Armagh's attempted blackmail of an upstanding senator results in suicide and a lasting curse.
E6 · Airs Nov 11, 1976 · 1h 0m
Chapter VI
Rory Armagh romances Marjorie Chisholm while his sister Anne-Marie's relationship with Courtney Wickersham crashes and burns through no fault of their own.
E7 · Airs Nov 18, 1976 · 1h 0m
Chapter VII
While his son Rory searches for brother Kevin with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the jungles of Cuba, Joseph Armagh quietly orchestrates the annulment of Rory's marriage to Marjorie Chisholm.
E8 · Airs Nov 25, 1976 · 2h 0m
Chapter VIII
Rory Armagh seeks the Democratic nomination for President over Woodrow Wilson, while his father ponders a lifetime without love.

Details

Writing: Taylor Caldwell, Douglas Heyes, Elinor Karpf
Status: Ended
First aired: Sep 30, 1976
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television, Roy Huggins-Public Arts Productions

Time to finish

8 hrs

8 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

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