Continue searching the Collection
AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE: OPPENHEIMER, PART 5 (TV)
Summary
Continued from T:21254. One in this dramatic anthology series. Part five of seven. This seven-part mini-series deals with the controversial life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who headed the top secret project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, to develop and deploy the first atomic bomb. In this episode, the atomic bomb, after being tested in the New Mexico desert, is used to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Includes a promo of the "American Playhouse" production, "Oppenheimer, Part Six." Continues with T:21256.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: June 8, 1982 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:43
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:21255
- GENRE: Docudrama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Docudrama; Atomic weapons; Biography
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1982-
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Promos - "American Playhouse"
CREDITS
- Peter Goodchild … Executive Producer
- Lindsay Law … Coordinating Producer
- Ruth Caleb … Associate Producer
- Barry Davis … Director
- Peter Prince … Writer
- Carl Davis … Music by
- The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra … Music by
- Michael Small … Theme Music by
- John Carson … Narrator
- Richard Kiley … Announcer
- Sam Waterston … Cast, J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Edward Hardwicke … Cast, Enrico Fermi
- Bob Sherman … Cast, Ernest Lawrence
- Manning Redwood … Cast, General Leslie Groves
- Christopher Muncke … Cast, Colonel Kenneth Nichols
- Peter Whitman … Cast, Robert Serber
- Don Fellows … Cast, Army Chief
- Milton Johns … Cast, George Kistiakowsky
- John Morton … Cast, Robert Wilson
- Ron Berglas … Cast, John Manley
- Garrick Hagon … Cast, Frank Oppenheimer
- Barry Dennen … Cast, Isidor Rabi
- Alexander Knox … Cast, Henry Stimson
- Douglas Lambert … Cast, Kenneth Bainbridge
- David Suchet … Cast, Edward Teller
- Matthew Guinness … Cast, Hans Bethe
- Blain Fairman … Cast, Robert Bacher
- Robert MacLeod … Cast, Navy Chief
- Douglas Iles … Cast, Air Force Chief
- Ed Bishop … Cast, General Tom Farrell
- Jeff Harding … Cast, M.P.
- Michael John Paliotti … Cast, Sam Allison
- Nigel Anthony … Cast, Scientist