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KING {PART 1 OF 3} (TV)
Summary
Part one of this three-part docudrama based on the life of civil rights leader the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his fight to achieve equal rights for blacks through nonviolence. King meets and marries Coretta Scott in 1953 and comes to national prominence as he begins his quest for equal rights for blacks by organizing a boycott of public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama from 1955 to 1956. King continues his boycott of Montgomery's public transportation and accuses the FBI's Southern Division of racism. These accusations cause FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to begin an all-out campaign to discredit King. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: February 12, 1978 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:39:22
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T78:0821
- GENRE: Drama, historical
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - Drama; Drama, historical; Biography; Civil rights movement; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV, 1978
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Edward S. Feldman … Executive Producer
- William Finnegan … Supervising Producer
- Paul Maslansky … Producer
- Ted Swanson … Associate Producer
- Abby Mann … Director, Writer
- Billy Goldenberg … Music by
- Paul Winfield … Cast, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Cicely Tyson … Cast, Coretta Scott King
- Tony Bennett … Cast, himself
- Roscoe Lee Browne … Cast, Philip Harrison
- Lonny Chapman … Cast, Frank Holloman
- Ossie Davis … Cast, Martin Luther King, Sr.
- Cliff De Young … Cast, Robert F. Kennedy
- Al Freeman … Cast, Damon Lockwood
- Clu Gulager … Cast, William Sullivan
- Steven Hill … Cast, Stanley Levison
- William Jordan … Cast, President John F. Kennedy
- Warren Kemmerling … Cast, Lyndon B. Johnson
- Lincoln Kilpatrick … Cast, Waring
- Kenneth McMillan … Cast, Bull Connor
- Howard Rollins … Cast, Andrew Young
- David Spielberg … Cast, Beamer
- Dolph Sweet … Cast, J. Edgar Hoover
- Dick Anthony Williams … Cast, Malcolm X (Malcolm Little; El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)
- Art Evans … Cast, A.D. King
- Frances Foster … Cast, Alberta King
- Charles Robinson … Cast, Detective Ed Redditt
- Roger Robinson … Cast, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
- Terry Alexander … Cast, Bernard Lee
- Ernie Banks … Cast, Ralph Abernathy
- Robert Christian … Cast, Wallace
- Sheila Frazier … Cast, June
- Dallas Hayes … Cast, McKeecham
- Patrick Hines … Cast, Mayor Richard Daley
- Ernie Hudson … Cast, Jack Corbin
- Roy Jenson … Cast, Sheriff Carothers
- Harriet Karr … Cast, Viola Liuzzo
- Eric Olson … Cast, Robert Kennedy's Son
- Gene Woodbury … Cast, Claude
- Donzaleigh Abernathy … Cast, Donzaleigh Abernathy
- Alveda Beale King … Cast, Babysitter
- Matt Bennett … Cast, Reporter
- Julian Bond … Cast, Julian Bond
- Edward Call … Cast, Withers
- Ladonna Carter … Cast, Bonnie King
- Ramsey Clark … Cast, Ramsey Clark
- Hope Clarke … Cast, Mary
- Gary Combs … Cast, Young White Man
- Christine King Farris … Cast, Church Soloist
- Jesse D. Goins … Cast, Harold O'Connor
- Leon Hall … Cast, SNCC Militant
- Tony Holmes … Cast, Marty King
- Linda Hopkins … Cast, Ellie
- Felecia Hunter … Cast, Yolanda King
- Maynard Jackson … Cast, Wally Whitmore
- Bernice King … Cast, Student
- Dexter King … Cast, Student #2
- Martin Luther King III … Cast, Reverend Briggs
- Yolanda King … Cast, Rosa Parks
- Nick Latour … Cast, Man #1
- Royce Wallace … Cast, Mrs. Parker
- Frances E. Williams … Cast, Mrs. Cumby