Season 1 |
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| 5 :01x05 - Carroll O'Connor (Mar/02/1987) | | Carroll O'Connor was an obscure character actor until the role of Archie Bunker on All in the Family made him a household name. | |
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| 6 :01x06 - John Stamos (Mar/09/1987) | | John Stamos is featured, from his days on General Hospital, to his Broadway career, up to his Full House role. | |
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| 10 :01x10 - Natalie Wood (Apr/06/1987) | | Natalie Wood was one of the few Hollywood child actors who grew up to have an even more successful career as an adult but it's her strange and tragic death for which she's most remembered today. | |
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| 11 :01x11 - Annette Funicello (Apr/13/1987) | | The career of Annette Funicello from the Mickey Mouse Club to her current struggle against multiple sclerosis. | |
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| 13 :01x13 - Roman Polanski (Apr/27/1987) | | Roman Polanski was one of Hollywood's top directors but at the peak of his career was forced to flee the United States because of a pending statutory rape charge. | |
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| 14 :01x14 - Huey Long: the Kingfish (May/04/1987) | | Huey Long was the Big Daddy of Louisiana politics and a powerful United States Senator as well but an assassin's bullet cut him down just as he was preparing to challenge FDR for the presidency. | |
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| 16 :01x16 - Henry Winkler (Nov/02/2000) | | Henry Winkler was actually thinking about getting out of acting before being cast in the role of a lifetime--Fonzie on Happy Days. | | Guest Stars: John Ritter as Himself | |
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| 17 :01x17 - Don Knotts (Nov/09/2000) | | The life of Don Knotts covering his roles on Andy Griffith and Three's Company along with his film career. | |
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| 19 :01x19 - Joan Crawford (Nov/23/2000) | | There's no doubt that Joan Crawford was a star but was she really the abusive "Mommie Dearest" described in her daughter's tell-all book? | |
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| 23 :01x23 - Mahatma Gandhi (Dec/21/2000) | | Mahatma Gandhi, who led the struggle for Indian independence from Great Britain, is profiled. | |
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Season 2 |
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| 5 :02x05 - Nick Nolte: Acting Up (Mar/02/1989) | | Actor Nick Nolte has endured more than his share of controversy over the years. His life is chronicled in this episode. | |
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| 10 :02x10 - Drew Barrymore: Out from Under (Apr/06/1989) | | Skyrocketing to fame in E.T., Drew Barrymore was unable to handle her sucess and became a child alcoholic but she was eventually able to pull herself together and have a successful adult career. | |
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| 19 :02x19 - Ricki Lake (Jun/08/1989) | | Ricki Lake had moderate success as an actress but she became a household name when she began hosting her own daytime television talk show--a show that at times made Sally Jessy Raphael look classy by comparison. | |
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| 34 :02x34 - Montgomery Clift: the Hidden Star (Sep/21/1989) | | Montgomery Clift was one of Hollywood most popular leading men during the 1950's with both the critics and the public but he had a secret which would have destroyed his career had it become public knowledge. | |
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| 38 :02x38 - Ingrid Bergman (Oct/19/1989) | | Ingrid Bergman was one of the top actresses in 1940's Hollywood but a scandal derailed her career for nearly a decade before she rose to the top again. | |
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| 44 :02x44 - Audie Murphy: Great American Hero (Nov/30/1989) | | War hero Audie Murphy gave Hollywood a try and became a B-movie actor of note only to have his career wane in the 60's. He died tragically in a plane crash before getting a chance to make a film comeback. | | Guest Stars: Paul Picerni as Himself | |
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| 49 :02x49 - Elizabeth Montgomery: a Touch of Magic (Jan/04/1990) | | Growing up in a Hollywood family, Elizabeth Montgomery carved out an impressive niche of her own in show biz being best remembered for her portrayal of good witch Samantha on the sitcom Bewitched. | |
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| 63 :02x63 - Sal Mineo (Nov/08/1990) | | Sal Mineo shot to fame in the classic 1954 film Rebel Without a Cause but like co-stars James Dean and Natalie Wood he met a tragic fate. | |
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| 65 :02x65 - Patsy Cline (Nov/10/1990) | | Patsy Cline was one of country music's first female stars but she became a legend after her tragic death in a plane crash. | |
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| 67 :02x67 - Joan of Arc: Virgin Warrior (Nov/11/1990) | | The teenaged Joan of Arc claimed to have received divine visions calling on her to raise an army to expel English conquerors from her native France but she was betrayed and suffered a martyr's death. | |
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| 71 :02x71 - Jesse Ventura: the Body Politic (Nov/18/1990) | | Former Navy SEAL Jesse Ventura became a wrestling superstar but health problems forced his premature retirement from the ring. Not one to be deterred, Ventura later went into acting and politics. | |
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| 78 :02x78 - Caligula: Reign of Madness (Nov/26/1990) | | Gaius Caligula's cruel reign as Emperor of Rome lasted only four years but it made a lasting impact and his name became a symbol of both madness and cruelty. | |
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Season 3 |
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| 5 :03x05 - Dutch Schultz (Unknown/Unaired) | | Arthur J. Phlegenheimer, alias Dutch Schultz, rose to the top of the New York underworld by brute force and intimidation. Just when it seemed that no one (including the United States government) could topple him from his underworld throne, he died as he had lived by the machine gun. | |
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| 6 :03x06 - Dorothy Dandridge (Unknown/Unaired) | | Dorothy Dandridge was one of the first female Afro-American superstars in Hollywood but personal problems tragically cut short her career in Tinseltown. | |
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| 7 :03x07 - Al Capone (Unknown/Unaired) | | Al Capone rose to the top of the Chicago underworld at the age of 26 and became America's first superstar gangster. But it was this notoriety and ensuing publicity that brought about his fall. | |
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| 12 :03x12 - Eliot Ness (Unknown/Unaired) | | The classic 1959-63 crime drama The Untouchables made Eliot Ness a household name and a crime fighting legend but what was the real story behind this legend? | |
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| 13 :03x13 - John Dillinger (Unknown/Unaired) | | Petty criminal John Dillinger became a bank robbing desperado after his parole from the Indiana State Penitentiary. Dillinger's life and legend are recounted in this episode. | |
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| 22 :03x22 - Sammy "the Bull" Gravano (Unknown/Unaired) | | Sammy "the Bull" Gravano was Mob boss John Gotti's right hand man but he turned on his master when the government brought the hammer down. | |
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Season 4 |
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Season 5 |
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Season 6 |
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Season 7 |
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| 3 :07x03 - Vivien Leigh (1993) | | British actress Vivien Leigh won the plum role of Scarlet O'Hara in the classic 1939 film Gone With the Wind but her later life was plagued by health problems and mental illness. | |
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| 7 :07x07 - Larry Hagman (1993) | | Larry Hagman rose to fame and television immortality as the villainous oil tycoon J. R. Ewing on the CBS primetime soap Dallas. | |
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Season 8 |
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| 5 :08x05 - Jack Benny: Now Cut That Out! (May/19/1994) | | Vaudeville comic Jack Benny successfully made the transition to radio and twenty years later made another successful transition to television. Benny's many decades in show biz are chronicled. | | Guest Stars: Shana Alexander as Herself | |
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| 6 :08x06 - General Omar Bradley (May/26/1994) | | Omar Bradley was nicknamed "the GI General" for his unassuming manner and was one of the most successful commanders of World War II as well as being the last person to hold the rank of General of the Army. | |
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Season 9 |
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Season 10 |
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Season 11 |
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Season 12 |
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| 12x02 - Cheryl Ladd (Jan/01/1999) | | Cheryl Ladd went from a small South Dakota town to stardom when she replaced Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels. | | Guest Stars: Jordan Ladd as Herself | |
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| 12x05 - Ernie Kovacs (1998) | | "Nothing in Moderation" was the motto of comic Ernie Kovacs whose career was plagued by a bitter custody battle with his first wife and income tax problems with the government. | | Guest Stars: Edie Adams as Herself | |
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Season 13 |
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