Continue searching the Collection
BIG EVENT, THE: ENOLA GAY {PART 1 OF 3} (TV)
Summary
Part one of this docudrama about the military, political, and personal preparations and conflicts surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In this portion, a select crew begins training for the mission. Commercials deleted. Continues with T82:0091. (Presented under the umbrella of "The Sunday Big Event.")
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: November 23, 1980 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:00:00
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T82:0090
- GENRE: Docudrama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Atomic bomb - Drama; Docudrama; Drama, historical; World War II - Drama
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV, 1980
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Franklin R. Levy … Executive Producer
- Mike Wise … Executive Producer
- Richard S. Reisberg … Executive Producer
- Stanley M. Kallis … Producer
- Ted Zachary … Co-Producer
- David Lowell Rich … Director
- James Poe … Writer
- Millard Kaufman … Writer
- Gordon Thomas … Based on the book by
- Max Morgan Witts … Based on the book by
- Maurice Jarre … Music by
- Billy Crystal … Cast, Lt. Jacob Beser
- Patrick Duffy … Cast, Col. Paul Tibbets
- Kim Darby … Cast, Lucy Tibbets
- Gary Frank … Cast, Maj. Tom Ferebee
- Gregory Harrison … Cast, Capt. Bob Lewis
- Stephen Macht … Cast, Maj. Bud Uanna
- Walter Olkewicz … Cast, Sgt. Shug Crawford
- Robert Pine … Cast, Capt. William "Deke" Parsons
- James Shigeta … Cast, Field Marshal Abehata
- James Saito … Cast, Lt. Tatsuo Yamato
- Robert Walden … Cast, J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Henry Wilcoxon … Cast, Secretary of War Stimson