Season 1

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  8.0/1033 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.5/1026 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.1/1023 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.2/1022 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.9/1024 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.9/1027 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown