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Network: BBC Four
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 360 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood (1987)

Season 1 (July 3, 1987, midnight)

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood (1987)

Season 1 (July 3, 1987, midnight)

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

62
?
IMDb
8.4
/187/
Trakt
24
/5/
TMDb
80
/1/
Ed Asner
Ed Asner
Himself - Presenter
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers
Bert Granet
Bert Granet
Katherine Brown
Katherine Brown
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire
Pandro S. Berman
Pandro S. Berman
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball

July 3, 1987, midnight 0.0

S1E1 - Birth of a Titan

Ed 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.
July 10, 1987, midnight 0.0

S1E2 - Let's Face the Music and Dance

He 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.
July 17, 1987, midnight 0.0

S1E3 - A Woman's Lot

The 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.
July 24, 1987, midnight 0.0

S1E4 - It's All True

Orson Welles spent a hectic few years at RKO, making Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and the abandoned It's All True.
July 31, 1987, midnight 0.0

S1E5 - Dark Victory

The 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.
Aug. 7, 1987, midnight 0.0

S1E6 - Howard's End

Series concludes as Howard Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect on the studio.
Network: BBC Four
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 360 min.
Released: July 2, 1987
Last Air Date: Aug. 7, 1987, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

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