Season 1
6 episodes · Jul 3, 1987
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- S1E1
Birth of a Titan
Jul 3, 198760mEd Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures through the eyes of the people who worked there from its creation at the start of the talkies in the late 1920s.
- S1E2
Let's Face the Music and Dance
Jul 10, 198760mHe examines the musicals made in the mid 1930s with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Includes interviews with both stars, the producer Pando Berman and choreographer Hermes Pan.
- S1E3
A Woman's Lot
Jul 17, 198760mThe story of RKO Pictures, told through the eyes of the people who worked there, traces the films made at RKO for and by women, concentrating on the careers of Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn.
- S1E4
It's All True
Jul 24, 198760mOrson Welles spent a hectic few years at RKO, making Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and the abandoned It's All True.
- S1E5
Dark Victory
Jul 31, 198760mThe 1950s were a time of mounting paranoia, reflected by the studio's ventures into film noir. Robert Mitchum makes his first screen appearance, Val Lewton creates Zombies and Cat People, and the House Un-American Activities Committee stalks its prey.
- S1E6
Howard's End
Aug 7, 198760mSeries concludes as Howard Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect on the studio.