The Bold Ones: The Senator
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Bold Ones: The Senator |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1970-1971 |
| Production company |
Universal Television |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 8 in 1 season ( list ) |
| genre | Political thriller |
| idea | AJ Russell , SS Schweitzer |
| production | David Levinson |
| First broadcast | September 13, 1970 on NBC |
| occupation | |
The Bold Ones: The Senator is an American television series that ran from 1970 to 1971. It was developed by AJ Russell , SS Schweitzer . The main roles were played by Hal Holbrook and Michael Tolan . The political series is part of the wheel series The Bold Ones .
content
Hays Stowe, still a young lawyer in the pilot film, comes to Washington with wife Ellen and his daughter Norma as the new senator of his unnamed state and thus as his father's successor. Supported by his advisor Jordan Boyle, the idealistic senator is fighting various political challenges of the time such as corruption, air pollution and the treatment of minorities. In a double episode, he heads a committee of inquiry into an incident that is closely related to the Kent State massacre that occurred a few months before the series began.
background
The Bold Ones: The Senator replaced The Bold Ones: The Protectors series on the Wheel Show , but then shared the fate of this series after only one season of being discontinued despite good to very good reviews.
occupation
| actor | Role name | consequences | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hal Holbrook | Senator Hays Stowe | 0-8 | 1970-1971 |
| Michael Tolan | Jordan Boyle | 1-8 | 1970-1971 |
| Sharon Acker | Ellen Stowe | 0-3, 6 | 1970-1971 |
Episodes
| No. | Original title | First broadcast in the United States | Director | script | Guest actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | A Clear and Present Danger 1 | 21 Mar 1970 | James Goldstone | AJ Russell , Howard Rodman | EG Marshall , Jack Albertson , Pat Hingle , Michael Bell |
| 1 | To Taste of Death But Once | 13 Sep 1970 | Daryl Duke | Joel Olianski | Gerald S. O'Loughlin , Michael Bell, James Wainwright |
| 2 | The Day the Lion Died | Oct 4, 1970 | Daryl Duke | Leon Tokatyan | Will Geer , Frank Maxwell , Ann Doran , Peter Brocco , Michael Fox |
| 3 | Power play | Nov 1, 1970 | Jerrold Freedman | Ernest Kinoy | Burgess Meredith , Anna Lee , Holly Near , Jason Wingreen |
| 4th | A Continual Roar of Musketry: Part 1 | Nov 22, 1970 | Robert Day | David W. Rintels | Edward Binns , Bernie Hamilton , John Randolph , Laurence Luckinbill , Randolph Mantooth |
| 5 | A Continual Roar of Musketry: Part 2 | Nov 29, 1970 | Robert Day | David W. Rintels | Edward Binns, Bernie Hamilton, John Randolph, Laurence Luckinbill, Randolph Mantooth |
| 6th | Someday, They'll Elect a President | Jan. 17, 1971 | John Badham | Leon Tokatyan | Murray Hamilton , John Randolph, Dana Elcar , Kermit Murdock |
| 7th | George Washington told a lie | Feb 7, 1971 | Daryl Duke | Joel Olianski | Reni Santoni , Louise Sorel , Malcolm Atterbury , Robert Donner |
| 8th | A single blow of a sword | Feb. 28, 1971 | John Badham | Jerrold Freedman | David Sheiner , Lincoln Kilpatrick , Logan Ramsey , Mel Stewart |
Reviews
Joe Corey loves the show and wonders why it got canceled so early despite the five Emmys.
Wesley Hyatt, in his Emmy Award- winning book, The Bold Ones: The Senator , differs from the rest of The Bold Ones series in that it very resolutely addressed current issues. As an example, he cites the episode George Washington Told a Lie , in which an Indian reservation is to give way to a dam project. The episode focused on the topic without a distracting love story or even music. But he also blames this concentration for the early discontinuation of the series.
Awards
For a series that consists of only one season with nine episodes, The Bold Ones: The Senator received an extraordinary number of awards and nominations in 1971.
- The series was nominated for Best Television Series - Drama at the Golden Globes . The award went to the Medical Center series .
- There were eleven nominations for the Emmy Awards , five of which were won. The drama series category went to The Bold Ones: The Senator, the lead actor in a drama series category to Hal Holbrook , who was also nominated in the lead actor category (individual performance) for the episode A Clear and Present Danger . The award went to George C. Scott for his performance in an episode of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. The category directing a drama / single episode of a series won Daryl Duke for the episode The Day the Lion Died, among other things against John Badham for the episode A single Blow of a Sword. There were also two nominations in the script for a drama series category . The Emmy went to Joel Olianski for the episode To Taste of Death But Once , while David W. Rintels was left behind (for both parts of A Continual Roar of Musketry ). The same picture in the editing category in a drama series : Here Michael Economu won for A Continual Roar of Musketry against Douglas Stewart for To Taste of Death But Once. The Bold Ones: The Senator was also nominated for Best New Series , but lost to All in the Family . It was also James Goldstone in the category Best Director in a Drama for A Clear and Present Danger nominated. The award went to Fielder Cook .
- Robert Day received a Directors Guild of America Award nomination in the television category . The award went to Lamont Johnson for the television film My Sweet Charlie .
- Joel Olianski received a nomination for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the episode To Taste of Death But Once , but lost to E. Jack Neuman and Richard Alan Simmons for the television film Berlin Affair .
- David W. Rintels won the Writers Guild of America Award in the Drama Series category for the double episode A Continual Roar of Musketry .
DVD
The Bold Ones: The Senator was released on DVD on June 16, 2015.
Web links
- The Bold Ones: The Senator in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A Clear and Present Danger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Bold Ones: The Senator on Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Joe Corey: DVD Review: The Bold Ones: The Senator (The Complete Series). In: InsidePulse. June 25, 2015, accessed April 16, 2017 .
- ^ Wesley Hyatt: Emmy Award Winning Nighttime Television Shows, 1948-2004 . McFarland & Company, Jefferson 2006, ISBN 978-0-7864-2329-3 , The Senator, pp. 231–232 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 16, 2017]).
- ↑ 23rd Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners. In: Emmys.com. Retrieved on April 16, 2017 (in English, use the "Next" button at the bottom of the pages if necessary).
- ↑ 23rd Annual DGA Awards Honoring Outstanding Directorial Achievement for 1970. In: dga.org. Accessed on April 16, 2017 (in English, if necessary click on “Winners and Nominees”).
- ↑ Database search. Retrieved on April 16, 2017 (English, for example, select "Title" and search for "To Taste Of Death But Once").