Best Sellers (1970)

Original title

Captains and the Kings

Genre

drama

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 8 episodes

Rated

16

Rating

8.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a TV anthology series from the 1970s. Each mini-series adapts a recent best-selling historical novel. Four stories were broadcast in total.

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What happens

Best Sellers (also known as NBC Best Sellers) is a television series broadcast by NBC during the 1976–77 season. It is an anthology series consisting of miniseries, each one based on a best-selling historical novel that had been written in the last 10 years. In total, four miniseries were aired: Captains and the Kings, based on Captains and the Kings (1972); Once an Eagle, based on Once an Eagle (1968); Seventh Avenue, based on Seventh Avenue (1967); and The Rhinemann Exchange, based on The Rhinemann Exchange (1974). The theme music was composed by Elmer Bernstein, who also scored Captains and the Kings. The concept was similar to 1950s television serialised dramas, when plays and novels were formatted into several broadcast episodes under a single umbrella program title. It was one of the earliest examples of the modern mini-series format. The format, however, apparently did not seem to work for NBC in the mid-1970s, which ended the series after one season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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