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8.84 votes19761hEndedDrama

Synopsis

Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.

Episodes

Season 1

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1. Chapter INow viewing1976-09-302hJoseph Francis Xavier Armagh and his two younger siblings Sean and Mary escape a ship on the harbor of New York. The situation ashore is problematic, jobs are scarce and food equally scarce. Aboard the ship their mother has died from disease, but they have a hope; their father is in Philadelphia awaiting them. The siblings run away, and discovers their father to be dead to, and young teenager Joseph places his siblings in an Orphanage while he himself goes to make money, become rich and get them out of poverty. The first episode follows Joseph for a few years through a series of struggles, and how he starts earning his first dollars and setting off into speculation in oil, together with his new-won friend, the Lebanese Haroun Al-Zieff (later: Harry Seff). The beginnings of a true rags-to-riches-story.
2. Chapter II1976-10-071hA few years of successful gun running and Joseph Armagh becomes a partner in the oil company of Ed Healey.
3. Chapter III1976-10-141hJoseph Armagh rejects the love of Elizabeth Healey, learns of the dying Katherine Hennessey's unrequited love, promising to wed her daughter Bernadette before Katherine's jealous husband goes too far in a salacious attack on Joseph.
4. Chapter IV1976-10-281hTensions escalate between the labor unions and the railroad, as Joseph Armagh fathers four children with Bernadette even as he seeks to avenge himself on her father for depriving him of the two great loves of his life.
5. Chapter V1976-11-041hJoseph Armagh's attempted blackmail of an upstanding senator results in suicide and a lasting curse.
6. Chapter VI1976-11-111hRory Armagh romances Marjorie Chisholm while his sister Anne-Marie's relationship with Courtney Wickersham crashes and burns through no fault of their own.
7. Chapter VII1976-11-181hWhile his son Rory searches for brother Kevin with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the jungles of Cuba, Joseph Armagh quietly orchestrates the annulment of Rory's marriage to Marjorie Chisholm.
8. Chapter VIII1976-11-252hRory Armagh seeks the Democratic nomination for President over Woodrow Wilson, while his father ponders a lifetime without love.

Cast

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Richard Jordan
Joseph Armagh
Harvey Jason
Harry Zieff
Patty Duke
Bernadette Hennessey Armagh
Blair Brown
Elizabeth Healey Hennessey
Robert Vaughn
Charles Desmond
Perry King
Rory Armagh
Katherine Crawford
Mary Armagh
Jane Seymour
Marjorie Chisholm Armagh
Cynthia Sikes
Claudia
Charles Durning
Ed Healey
David Huffman
Sean Armagh
Terry Kiser
Courtney Wickersham
Vic Morrow
Tom Hennessey
Barbara Parkins
Martinique
Joanna Pettet
Katherine Hennessey
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Jenny Sullivan
Honora Houlihan
Beverly D'Angelo
Miss Emmy
Burl Ives
Old Syrup
Peter Donat
Clair Montrose
Henry Fonda
Sen. Enfield Bassett

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Captains and the Kings has 1 season and 8 episodes.

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Captains and the Kings first aired in 1976.

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Captains and the Kings is classified as Drama.