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lthough very much a book of the late 1960s both in setting and in writing style, it holds up very well today, the themes of family dysfunction, personal alienation and the eternal struggle for success being timeless. The characters are wonderfully drawn, especially the three vastly different siblings, Rudolf, Gretchen and Thomas.
S1.E1 ∙ Part I: Chapters 1 and 2. Sun, Feb 1, 1976. Story begins at VE Day celebration at the school where elder son of a German immigrant, Rudy Jordache is a student. Younger brother, Tom, is also in attendance, but leaves when it is too "corny" for him and his friend. Tom gets into a fight with a soldier and later sneaks home through a window.
Episodes. Episode 1 Aired Feb 1, 1976. Chapter 1 Content collapsed. In the mid-1940s, two brothers pursue divergent lifestyles as they reach adulthood. Content collapsed. Details. Episode 2 Aired ...
Shaw was a prolific American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for his novels, The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man Poor Man (1970). His parents were Rose and Will. His younger brother, David Shaw (died 2007), became a noted Hollywood producer.
The first-ever dramatic miniseries to appear on American television, the multi-award winning RICH MAN, POOR MAN spans decades and generations to trace the epic story of the Jordache family from 1945 to the late 1960s.
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Irwin Shaw. Irwin Shaw (1913–1984) was an acclaimed, award-winning author who grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. His first play, Bury the Dead (1936), has become an anti-war classic. He went on to write several more plays, more than a dozen screenplays, two works of nonfiction, dozens of short stories (for ...
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One of the first American television miniseries, Rich Man, Poor Man aired on ABC from 1 February to 15 March 1976. Adapted from the best-selling 1970 Irwin Shaw novel, Rich Man, Poor Man was a limited twelve-part dramatic series consisting of six two-hour prime-time made for television movies. The televised novel chronicled the lives of the ...
