![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While historical dramas and especially TV films have the potential to be deadly earnest or overly consumed with facts, there's very little dry or uninteresting in what's been assembled in this look at the fictional town of Centennial, Colorado from the formation of the Earth through to the then-present days of the 1970s. By every measure, Centennial is a towering achievement, but if it were not for the (mostly) consistent quality of the episodes, all that expenditure of time and talent would be meaningless. Browne) and included over 100 speaking parts in 26 hours of broadcast time - sans commercials, Centennial runs closer to 21 hours. Short, Duke Callaghan, Jacques Marquette and Ronald W. The series premiered on Octoon NBC and continued through February 4, 1979, cost several million dollars ($25 million, in fact, by most estimates), used four different directors (Harry Falk, Paul Krasny, Bernard McEveety and Virgil Vogel), four different cinematographers (Charles W. ![]() Michener's novel of the same name, often feels like a museum exhibit come to life - in a good way. One of television's finest achievements, the sprawling 12-part miniseries Centennial, adapted from author James A. ![]()
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