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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Adams Chronicles, The

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    13 x 60 minute episodes

    This multi Emmy award-winning PBS series aired in 1976 to commemorate the American Bicentennial, telling how succeeding generations of the political Adams family influenced American history.

    The story covered a period of 150 years (1750 – 1900) with the most prominent member of the family, John Adams (George Grizzard) – signer of the Declaration of Independence, accomplished diplomat and the 2nd President – being seen as the most influential of all.

    His son John Quincy Adams (acclaimed Secretary of State, the 6th President, and prominent abolitionist) was played by Mark Winkworth.

    The series traced their lives from John Adams’ early years as a colonial Boston attorney to the rise in prominence of Brookes Adams in the fields of political and social philosophy.

    There was a great emphasis on historical accuracy in the preparation of the series, with the provision of 300,000 pages of diaries, letters and miscellaneous documents from the Massachusetts Historical Society Adams Collection and a small army of scholars to interpret them.

    John Adams
    George Grizzard
    John Adams II – younger
    Tim Wilson
    John Adams II
    Allan Carlsen
    Richard Cranch
    Michael O’Hare
    Andrew Jackson
    Wesley Addy
    John Quincy Adams
    David Birney
    Samuel Adams
    W.B. Brydon
    John Quincy Adams
    William Daniels
    John Hancock
    Curt Dawson
    Madame Brillon
    M’el Dowd M’el
    Henry Clay
    George Hearn
    Lord Howe
    Patrick Horgan
    Nabby
    Katharine Houghton
    Fanny
    K.C. Ligon
    Abigail ‘Nabby’ Adams II
    Lisa Lucas
    Mrs Smith
    Nancy Marchand
    Louisa Catherine Adams
    Pamela Payton-Wright
    Patrick Henry
    William Shust
    Alexis de Toqueville
    Jean-Pierre Stewart
    King George III
    John Tillinger
    Abigail Smith Adams
    Kathryn Walker
    George Washington Adams
    David Elliott
    Thomas Jefferson
    Albert Stratton
    Charles Francis Adams
    John Beal
    Henry Adams
    Peter Brandon
    James Monroe
    Henry Butler
    Abigail Brooks Adams
    Nancy Coleman
    Abigail Smith Adams (age 44-74)
    Leora Dana
    Charles Francis Adams
    Thomas A. Stewart
    James McHenry
    Tom Aldredge
    Mary Catherine Hellen (Older)
    Maureen Anderman
    Fanny Adams
    Susan Bjurman
    George Washington Adams
    Peter Coffield
    Minnie Adams
    Patricia Elliott
    Jay Gould
    Paul Hecht
    James Madison
    Ken Kercheval
    John C. Calhoun
    Robert Phalen
    Charles Adams
    J.C. Powell
    John Quincy Adams II
    Nicholas Pryor
    Timothy Pickering
    Reid Shelton
    Charles Francis Adams II
    Charles Siebert
    Alexander Hamilton
    Jeremiah Sullivan
    Benjamin Franklin
    Robert Symonds
    Thomas Adams
    Tom Tammi
    Brooks Adams
    Charles Tenney
    John Quincy Adams
    Mark Winkworth
    Narrator
    Michael Tolan

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