Rich Man, Poor Man
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Synopsis
The overwhelming success of this star-laden TV adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1970 best-seller that was shown as six two-hour motion pictures over a seven-week period assured the future of the "Novel for Television" miniseries genre. Stars of varying magnitudes were made of the production's three leading players -- Peter Strauss, Susan Blakely and Nick Nolte (each Emmy Award-nominated) -- as the two Jordache brothers and the girl involved at one time or another with each during the twenty years from the end of World War II until the late 1960s in this odyssey examining the shifting social and moral values in America. It also spawned a weekly series, "Rich Man, Poor Man -- Book II" (which had nothing to do with Shaw's original book), running during the 1976-77 television season with Strauss continuing his original role.
Emmy Awards were won by Edward Asner and Fionnuala Flanagan for acting, David Greene for directing (Part 8), and Alex North for his music score. Among the other nominations (twenty in all) were one for Best Limited Series as well as to Dorothy McGuire, Ray Milland, Bill Bixby, Robert Reed, Van Johnson and Norman Fell (in various specialized acting categories), director Boris Sagal (for Part 5), writer Dean Reisner, cinematographer Howard R. Schwartz, costumer Charles Waldo, and editors Douglas Stewart and Richard Bracken.
Cast
Martin Ashe
Kay Lenz
Kim Darby
Michael Morgan
Lynda Day George
Eddie Barth
Helen Craig
Andrew Duggan
Dennis Dugan
Antony Carbone
Ben Archibeck
William Smith
Julius Harris
Dorothy Malone
Tim Mcintire
Peter Strauss
Fionnuala Flanagan
Talia Shire
Herbert Jefferson
Roy Jenson
Lawrence Pressman
Craig Stevens
Bill Bixby
Murray Hamilton
Gloria Grahame
George Maharis
Leigh Mccloskey
Edward Asner
Frank Aletter
William Bronder
Dick Butkus
Steve Allen
Ray Milland
Robert Reed
Nick Nolte
John Furlong
Susan Blakely
Norman Fell
Van Johnson
Mike Baird
Dorothy Mcguire
Gavan O'herlihy
Michael Evans
Harvey Jason
Josette Banzet
Jo Ann Harris
Bo Brundin
Crew
Harve Bennett
Richard Bracken
John E Chilberg
Jon Epstein
Alex North
Dean Reisner
James F Rogers
Howard Schwartz
Howard Schwartz
Irwin Shaw
Douglas Stewart
Charles Waldo
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Aired in United States February 1, 1976
Aired in United States February 16, 1976
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Aired in United States February 23, 1976
Aired in United States February 9, 1976
Aired in United States March 1, 1976
Aired in United States March 15, 1976
Aired in United States March 8, 1976
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