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Every episode of The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood!

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Four

Top Episode Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood" is "Let's Face the Music and Dance", rated 8.5/10 from 26 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" aired on 7/10/1987 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "It's All True".

  • Let's Face the Music and Dance
    8.5/10 26 votes

    #1 - Let's Face the Music and Dance

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/10/1987

    He examines the musicals made in the mid 1930s with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Includes interviews with both stars, the producer Pando Berman and choreographer Hermes Pan.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • It's All True
    8.2/10 22 votes

    #2 - It's All True

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/24/1987

    Orson Welles spent a hectic few years at RKO, making Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and the abandoned It's All True.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Woman's Lot
    8.1/10 23 votes

    #3 - A Woman's Lot

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/17/1987

    The story of RKO Pictures, told through the eyes of the people who worked there, traces the films made at RKO for and by women, concentrating on the careers of Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Birth of a Titan
    8.0/10 33 votes

    #4 - Birth of a Titan

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/3/1987

    Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures through the eyes of the people who worked there from its creation at the start of the talkies in the late 1920s.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dark Victory
    7.9/10 24 votes

    #5 - Dark Victory

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/31/1987

    The 1950s were a time of mounting paranoia, reflected by the studio's ventures into film noir. Robert Mitchum makes his first screen appearance, Val Lewton creates Zombies and Cat People, and the House Un-American Activities Committee stalks its prey.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Howard's End
    7.9/10 27 votes

    #6 - Howard's End

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/7/1987

    Series concludes as Howard Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect on the studio.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A