The Seekers (1979)

Directed by

Sidney Hayers

Genre

drama

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A TV series adaptation of John Jakes' novel following a fictional family through early American history. It covers the years 1794 to 1814 and mixes invented characters with real historical events and figures.

historicalsweepingdramaticfamily-drivenepisodicearnestslow-paced

What happens

The Seekers is a historical novel written by John Jakes and originally published in 1975. It is book three in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or the American Bicentennial Series. The novel mixes fictional characters with historical events and figures, as it narrates the story of the United States of America from 1794 through 1814. The novel was made into a television film by Operation Prime Time and premiered on HBO on July 8, 1979. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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