Season 1
8 episodes · Sep 30, 1976
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- S1E1
Chapter I
Sep 30, 1976120mJoseph 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.
- S1E2
Chapter II
Oct 7, 197660mA few years of successful gun running and Joseph Armagh becomes a partner in the oil company of Ed Healey.
- S1E3
Chapter III
Oct 14, 197660mJoseph 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.
- S1E4
Chapter IV
Oct 28, 197660mTensions 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.
- S1E5
Chapter V
Nov 4, 197660mJoseph Armagh's attempted blackmail of an upstanding senator results in suicide and a lasting curse.
- S1E6
Chapter VI
Nov 11, 197660mRory Armagh romances Marjorie Chisholm while his sister Anne-Marie's relationship with Courtney Wickersham crashes and burns through no fault of their own.
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Chapter VII
Nov 18, 197660mWhile 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.
- S1E8
Chapter VIII
Nov 25, 1976120mRory Armagh seeks the Democratic nomination for President over Woodrow Wilson, while his father ponders a lifetime without love.