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1979, TV Show

Episode Detail: Jackie Robinson - Biography

The story of Jackie Robinson. Films show his early years as baseball's first black major-league player.

Episodes: Jackie Robinson - Biography - 65 total Episodes

de Gaulle
Hammarskjold
Ben Gurion
Dewey
Goebbels
Grace Kelly
Queen Elizabeth
Helen Keller
Robert Taft
Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey: Naval Warrior
Patton
Gandhi
Lindbergh
Huey Long
Barrymore
Jackie Robinson
Mao Tse-Tung
Rockne
Adenauer
Eamon de Valera
Admiral Chester Nimitz: Thunder of Pacific
Will Rogers
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Truman
J. Edgar Hoover
Amelia Earhart
Clarence Darrow
Herbert Hoover
General George C. Marshall: Soldier and Statesman
Pershing
Winston Churchill
Castro
General MacArthur
La Guardia
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
Hitler
Wendell Willkie
Von Braun
Edison
Hirohito
McCarthy
Billy Mitchell
Theodore Roosevelt
Truman
Pope Pius XII
Wilson
Mark Twain
Princess Margaret
Eva Peron
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franco
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Glenn
Eisenhower
Joseph Stalin
Babe Ruth
Marilyn Monroe
Winston Churchill
Byrd
Shaw
Rommel
John L. Lewis

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Premiered: 1979, on Syndicated

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Premise: The original half-hour version of the profile series, hosted by a pre-`60 Minutes' Mike Wallace. The program was revived in 1979 with David Janssen as host, but it wasn't until A&E's 1987 version that the concept took off.

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