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Captains and the Kings

  • TV Mini Series
  • 19761976
  • 9h
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
451
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POPULARITY
14,378
1,850
Henry Fonda, Patty Duke, Charles Durning, Richard Jordan, Vic Morrow, and Barbara Parkins in Captains and the Kings (1976)
Drama
Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s.Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s.Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s.
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
451
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
14,378
1,850
  • Stars
    • Richard Jordan
    • Harvey Jason
    • Patty Duke
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  • Stars
    • Richard Jordan
    • Harvey Jason
    • Patty Duke
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 17User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    • Won 2 Primetime Emmys
      • 4 wins & 8 nominations total

    Episodes8

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    1976

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    Richard Jordan and Joanna Pettet in Captains and the Kings (1976)

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    Richard Jordan
    Richard Jordan
    • Joseph Armagh
    8 episodes8 eps • 1976
    Harvey Jason
    Harvey Jason
    • Harry Zieff
    8 episodes8 eps • 1976
    Patty Duke
    Patty Duke
    • Bernadette Hennessey Armagh…
    6 episodes6 eps • 1976
    Blair Brown
    Blair Brown
    • Elizabeth Healey Hennessey…
    6 episodes6 eps • 1976
    Robert Vaughn
    Robert Vaughn
    • Charles Desmond
    6 episodes6 eps • 1976
    Perry King
    Perry King
    • Rory Armagh
    4 episodes4 eps • 1976
    Katherine Crawford
    Katherine Crawford
    • Mary Armagh…
    4 episodes4 eps • 1976
    Jane Seymour
    Jane Seymour
    • Marjorie Chisholm Armagh
    4 episodes4 eps • 1976
    Bernard Behrens
    Bernard Behrens
    • Gentleman
    4 episodes4 eps • 1976
    Cynthia Sikes
    Cynthia Sikes
    • Claudia…
    4 episodes4 eps • 1976
    Charles Durning
    Charles Durning
    • Ed Healey
    4 episodes4 eps • 1976
    David Huffman
    David Huffman
    • Sean Armagh
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Terry Kiser
    Terry Kiser
    • Courtney Wickersham
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Vic Morrow
    Vic Morrow
    • Tom Hennessey
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Barbara Parkins
    Barbara Parkins
    • Martinique
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Joanna Pettet
    Joanna Pettet
    • Katherine Hennessey
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Doug Heyes Jr.
    Doug Heyes Jr.
    • Kevin Armagh
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Jenny Sullivan
    Jenny Sullivan
    • Honora Houlihan…
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
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    • Trivia
      Producer Jo Swerling Jr. remembers "We had a lovely young actress named Beverly D'Angelo doing a love scene with Harvey Jason. It was your typical TV shot across her back to Harvey as she lets the negligee drop to the ground, and she's standing there naked. Then we did closeups of Harvey, and then of Beverly. And in Beverly's closeup we put a TV matte on the lens so that our matted field of vision would cut just at the nipple line; that was it was obvious that she was nude, but you didn't see any nipple. However, when the show was telecast, there were in the new TV sets variances in the field of vision, and half the sets in the country saw more of Beverly than the other half. The following morning, we got a panic call from Broadcast Standards that we had violated the nudity ban and that more people saw Beverly's nipples than didn't. But nobody complained. Nobody but the censors. The upshot was that we were told not to cut it that close in the future."
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      Featured in The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1977)

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    10/10
    Stands the test of time!!
    Captains and the Kings is such a rich mini-series. From the first episode to the last you can't help being drawn to the characters. I just got the VHS set and I can tell you that the story holds up as well now as it did in 1976. If you get the chance to see Captains and the Kings, don't pass it up. I guarantee it: you'll be hooked!!
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    • Sep 22, 2001

    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 30, 1976 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Der Preis der Macht
    • Filming locations
      • Stimson House - 2421 S Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Roy Huggins-Public Arts Productions
      • Universal Television
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    • Runtime
      9 hours
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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