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1979, TV Show

Episode Detail: Admiral Chester Nimitz: Thunder of Pacific - Biography

The story of Adm. Chester Nimitz, who commanded the U.S. fleet in the Pacific after Pearl Harbor.

Episodes: Biography - 65 total Episodes

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

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Premiered: 1979, on Syndicated

Rating: None

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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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