About this season
Series of 54 original televised plays and classic dramas produced by public television station KCET in Los Angeles, featuring all-star talent, was broadcast nationally on the National Educational Television (NET) network and its successor PBS between 1970 and 1978.
Episodes (5)
1. The Andersonville Trial
Aired 17 May 1970 • 150 min
Dramatization of the 1865 Andersonville trial where thirteen thousand Union prisoners died from starvation and maltreatment.
2. Big Fish, Little Fish
Aired 5 January 1971 • 120 min
Story of people who make it and the people who don't and how each affects the other.
3. Montserrat
Aired 2 March 1971
Set during the South American Wars and the story of the political hostages whose lives depend on a stranger's decision. The stranger -- a young Spanish officer who has become a follower of the revolutionary leader, Simon Bolivar -- can save their lives and his own by revealing the whereabouts of Bolivar to the Spanish conquerors.
4. Poet Game
Aired 6 April 1971
A portrait of a tormented Irish poet who seeks at least economic salvation from an American lecture-reading tour.
5. U.S.A.
Aired 4 May 1971 • 120 min
A kaleidoscopic view of the first 30 years in 20th century America.