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Bracken's World Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

26 Episodes 1969 - 1970

Episode 1

Fade In

Fri, Sep 19, 196960 mins

Opening episode. Tom Hudson tries to get into the acting school. Paulette Douglas refuses to take her clothes off for a photo shoot despite her mother Grace implying it's okay. Kevin Grant has an unhappy marriage with Marjorie. Kevin gives Rachel Holt the part in his movie instead of Diane Waring and explains why.

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Episode 2

Panic

Fri, Sep 26, 196960 mins

Diane and Karen compete for a role that requires horseback riding. This leads to an accident.

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Episode 3

King David

Fri, Oct 3, 196960 mins

An aging actress, while making a "comeback" at Century Studios, uses the job to get some retribution against the former Studio Head, who is Sylvia's father.

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Episode 4

Don't You Cry for Susannah

Fri, Oct 10, 196960 mins

A young actress loses a part to Diane Waring, but agrees to stay on and work for Diane.

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Episode 5

Options

Fri, Oct 17, 196960 mins

The studio budget must be reduced, so says Johnny Churchill (played by Time Tunnel's Robert Colbert), and the acting school is an unfortunate prime target.

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Episode 6

Closed Set

Fri, Oct 24, 196960 mins

A director who is arrogant and pompous comes to the studio to direct a movie. And he rubs some people the wrong way like Tom who wants to audition for him but the man doesn't like his look. And Davey whom he wants to be in the movie even though he has no desire to act. But when the man is shot, the police investigate and go through everyone who may have had a grudge against him.

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Episode 7

The Sweet Smell of Failure

Fri, Oct 31, 196960 mins

A famous director is coaxed out of retirement.

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Episode 8

The Stunt

Fri, Nov 7, 196960 mins

The star actor of the movie is making his move on Paulette, to the chagrin of her boyfriend. Meanwhile, there is real doubt as to whether a desired stunt in the movie can be safely executed.

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Episode 9

All the Beautiful Young Girls

Fri, Nov 14, 196960 mins

A famous actor is hired. He has a past with Laura Deane. He tries to convince her first to return to NY with him, then to return to acting.

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Episode 10

Package Deal

Fri, Nov 28, 196960 mins

A major studio star will only make Bracken's new movie if his daughter, a beautiful unknown also stars in it as well. As Kevin reluctantly takes the "package deal" - the film runs anything but smoothly.

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Episode 11

It's the Power Structure, Baby

Fri, Dec 5, 196960 mins

Young promising black director Floyd Emmons starts seeing Rachel Holt. But this could come at a cost neither is willing to pay.

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Episode 12

Move in for a Close-Up

Fri, Dec 12, 196960 mins

Kevin Grant's wife Marjorie takes a job in the film industry, leading to all sots of problems for the Grants.

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Episode 13

Stop Date

Fri, Dec 19, 196960 mins

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Episode 14

The Chase Sequence

Fri, Dec 26, 196960 mins

Tragedy results when Davey permits another stuntman, suffering from a hangover, to perform a dangerous stunt.

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Episode 15

Focus on a Gun

Fri, Jan 2, 197060 mins

Diane Waring is playing with fire, romancing a gangster (Joe Don Baker).

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Episode 16

Money Men

Fri, Jan 9, 197060 mins

Bracken is heading off a "hostile takeover", while Sylvia prepares to marry and leave her job as his assistant. This was Eleanor Parker's last episode.

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Episode 17

Meanwhile Back at the Studio

Fri, Jan 16, 197060 mins

Kevin Grant has a devil of a time getting a film underway given a hypersensitive Native American.

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Episode 18

A Perfect Piece of Casting

Fri, Jan 30, 197060 mins

An actor portrays a murderer, and gets too into the role.

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Episode 19

Super-Star

Fri, Feb 6, 197060 mins

A super-star football player (Lee Majors) with no movie experience is cast in a major picture. The director has his doubts.

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Episode 20

Whatever Happened to Happy Endings?

Fri, Feb 13, 197060 mins

A Hollywood columnist uses a free-thinking young actress to make things difficult for Kevin Grant.

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Episode 21

Fallen, Fallen Is Babylon

Fri, Feb 20, 197060 mins

Starlet Rachel Holt (Jensen) is kidnapped and held captive in a hidden place on the studio lot by an obsessed fan (Thomas).

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Episode 22

Papa Never Spanked Me

Fri, Feb 27, 197060 mins

Martin Sheen portrays a comedian trying to play a serious role in a movie. His father (Jack Albertson) shows up on the set, creating additional complications.

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Episode 23

A Beginning, a Middle and an End

Fri, Mar 6, 197060 mins

The studio is adapting the novel of a famous author, Samson Wilkes, but Kevin soon finds himself clashing with the author when he tries to change the ending.

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Episode 24

Diffusion

Fri, Mar 13, 197060 mins

An aging actress is seriously uncomfortable with her looks while filming a movie.

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Episode 25

Day for Night

Fri, Mar 20, 197060 mins

Rachel Holt's foster parents, who she thought were dead, suddenly show up in her life.

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Episode 26

One, Two, Three... Cry

Fri, Mar 27, 197060 mins

Paulette is having trouble getting acting jobs from the studio, so she hires a coach (Barry Sullivan), who has a reputation for thinking of more than acting.

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