Posted on 07/27/2014 7:40:44 PM PDT by MNDude
I don't watch TV much these days, so I can't say what have been popular miniseries in the past decade or so, but I remember there used to be big budget miniseries on TV all the time (A.D., The Winds of War, Roots. Etc). In your opinion, what were the greatest miniseries of all time?
Poots was an outrageous piece of absolute nonsense. It turned out to be wrong in just about every way, which was shown by professional genealogists. It was full of venom and hate for Southerners.
Lonesome dove was good.
Shogun, it was the first and the most unique.
Band of Brothers
Centennial
The Stand
Shogun was pretty dadgum enjoyable too. and I take it back about Rich Man, Poor Man. A very obscure miniseries, Marco Polo with Ken Marshall, et al, was as good as it gets — especially the score by Ennio Morricone!
Victory at Sea. I dare anyone to beat that. I used to sit on the floor and watch as my grandfather (USS Honolulu) discussed the battles. He found himself on deck twice during the series. Amazing. America at its best.
The World at War.
Shogun
Massada (Plot used later for a TV Alamo mini series movie)
Lonesome Dove
Lots of week long mini-series were made from the late 1970s through 1985.
They overwhelmed many of the viewers and for a late viewer they made no sense unless you saw the complete series from the first.
I Claudius
Lonesome Dove
Roots
I hate to pick one.
“The Thorn Birds” “Rich Man Poor Man” and “QB VII” spring to mind.
I may remember some others later.
Yes!!!
BTW, as a flute player, I love thew TB theme song. It is one of the best.
I haven’t seen it, but if I were to pick something I’d like to see, I would try “From the Earth to the Moon,” which is a history of the Apollo moon landing.
Lonesome Dove. (I think it won).
I forgot about “Shogun”. It probably was the best one.
Winds of War
Shogun
Thornbirds (every woman in the country was in love with Richard Chamberlain in this series...but now we know we could never stand a chance with him....sigh)
Captains and the Kings (1976)
Story of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s
Centennial (1978)
People in Colorado from the mid-1700s to the late-1970s
The Prisoner
Masada was good but Peter O’Toole completely dominated the show.
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