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NBC THEATRE: THE MIRACLE WORKER (TV)
Summary
One in this series of irregularly scheduled dramas.This is the second television production of William Gibson's drama based on the true life story of Helen Keller. Annie Sullivan, a Boston governess, is hired in 1886 to care for Helen Keller, the blind and deaf child of a well-to-do Alabama family. After successfully teaching Helen table manners, Annie sets out to teach the child sign language but must first overcome Helen's willfulness and her parents' desires to indulge her. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: October 14, 1979 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:56:35
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T80:0329
- GENRE: Docudrama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Biography; Docudrama; Handicapped persons - Drama
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1979-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Raymond Katz … Executive Producer
- Sandy Gallin … Executive Producer
- Fred Coe … Producer
- Barbara Abeles … Associate Producer
- Paul Aaron … Director
- William Gibson … Writer
- Billy Goldenberg … Music by
- Astin, Patty Duke (see also: Duke, Patty) … Cast, Annie Sullivan
- Diana Muldaur … Cast, Kate Keller
- Charles Siebert … Cast, Captain Keller
- Anne Seymour … Cast, Aunt Ev
- Stanley Wells … Cast, James
- Melissa Gilbert … Cast, Helen Keller
- Hilda Haynes … Cast, Viney
- Tito Vandis … Cast, Anagnos
- Byron Green … Cast, Percy
- Noniege Williams … Cast, Martha
- Jonathan Gilbert … Cast, Jimmie
- James Lee Canady … Cast, Servant