* The Elegant Universe — a three-hour miniseries with Brian Greene on the series Nova ( original PBS broadcast dates: October 28, 8 – 10 p. m. and November 4, 8 – 9 p. m., 2003 ).

*-Released in conjunction with the 2006 PBS miniseries The War that Made America.

* Carrier ( documentary ), a ten-part documentary miniseries that aired on PBS in April 2008

* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.

In 2000, the BBC and the PBS station WGBH of Boston produced a miniseries, titled Gormenghast, based on the first two books of the series.

There was also a 1978 television miniseries production that aired on PBS and that starred Joan Hackett and Roberta Maxwell.

In 2006, Jemison participated in African American Lives, a PBS television miniseries hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., that traced the family history of eight famous African Americans using historical research and genetic techniques.

It was recently adapted as a television miniseries, shown in both the UK and in the U. S. as a PBS presentation.

* Dickens ( TV miniseries ), 2002 PBS miniseries

Webb also played the part of Mona Ramsey in the first miniseries of the PBS adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.

He also played the role of Ulysses S. Grant in The Legend of the Lone Ranger ( 1981 ) and supplied the Union General's voice in the PBS miniseries The Civil War ( 1990 ).

** Birdsong ( TV miniseries ), BBC / PBS, a 2012 miniseries adaptation of the novel

* The Story of English with Robert McCrum ( also seen as a PBS miniseries in 1986 )

In 1976, he reprised the role as the middle-aged and elder John Quincy Adams in the acclaimed PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles ( George Grizzard played John Adams ).

In 1993 the first book was made into a television miniseries, produced by Channel 4 in the UK and screened by PBS in the U. S. the next year.

One episode of Robert Reich's 1992 PBS miniseries Made In America focused on the then-yet-to-be-released LH's development and its role in reversing Chrysler's flagging fortunes.

The tune was later used as the title theme of the 1990 PBS television miniseries, The Civil War, as well as the 1991 compilation album, Songs of the Civil War.

In the 1980s, his notable starring TV roles included: Alexander the Great's close companion Hephaistion in the PBS miniseries The Search for Alexander the Great ; serial killer Neville Heath in an episode of the murder-trial reenactment series Ladykillers ( 1981 ); naive Scot turned powerful South African magnate Jamie MacGregor in the miniseries Master of the Game ( 1984 ); Bonnie Prince Charlie in Scotland's Story ( 1984 ); romantic lead Clarence Dandridge in the period miniseries Louisiana ( 1984 ) opposite Margot Kidder ; and protagonist Victor Geary in the stylish and clever Oxbridge Blues ( 1984 ), written by Frederic Raphael, directed by James Cellan Jones, and co-starring Amanda Redman, Rosalyn Landor, and Malcolm Stoddard.

He repeated some of this criticism in the 1982 miniseries Bernstein / Beethoven, a PBS miniseries containing performances of all nine symphonies, several overtures, one of the string quartets, and the Missa Solemnis.

On television, Kathryn Walker and Leora Dana in the 1976 PBS mini-series The Adams Chronicles.

His feature film debut was in The All-American Boy ( 1973 ), and his first television appearance was in the PBS The Adams Chronicles ( 1976 ).

He went on to write notable adaptations of such literary classics as Great Expectations, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Phantom of the Opera and The Last Giraffe-a contemporary show about the Rothschilds giraffe, as well as the PBS series The Adams Chronicles ( Emmy Award ).

* The Adams Chronicles ( PBS Series )-Writer 1976

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** The Adams Chronicles ( PBS )

He also co-hosted the PBS TV show The Computer Chronicles.

This story is detailed from Microsoft and IBM's point of view in the PBS series Triumph of the Nerds and from Gary Kildall's friends and coworkers point of view on The Computer Chronicles.

The event was later on a segment of the TV series Wild Chronicles which airs on PBS.

Bixby also hosted Once Upon A Classic on PBS from 1976 to 1980.

Television credits include choreographing Sue's Leg ( 1976 ) for the inaugural episode of the PBS program Dance in America ,; co-producing and directing Making Television Dance ( 1977 ), which won the Chicago International Film Festival Award ; and directing The Catherine Wheel ( 1983 ) for BBC Television.

Also in America, in 1976, PBS broadcast a videotaped version of William Ball's 1976 American Conservatory Theater production for their Great Performances series, starring Marc Singer and Fredi Olster.

André Previn ( 1976 – 84 ) succeeded Steinberg and brought the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to a national audience with a PBS television series, Previn and the Pittsburgh.

In 1971 he began working for the Public Broadcasting System ( PBS ), hosting a news program called Bill Moyers Journal, which ran until 1981 with a hiatus from 1976 to 1977.

Selected PBS outlets showed surviving kinescopes of the original Question in Summer 1976, as a run-up to a new version of the show called The $ 128, 000 Question, which ran for two years.

Baryshnikov made his American television dancing debut in 1976, on the PBS program In Performance Live from Wolf Trap.

Bremer served as the inspiration for the character Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, in Taxi Driver ( 1976 ).< ref name =" PBS ">

In 1976, she both conducted and directed Il barbiere di Siviglia ( with Sills and Alan Titus ), which was televised over PBS, and did the same for Falstaff ( with Donald Gramm ) in 1979.

KTVR was unique in the Pacific time zone because as a repeater of a Mountain time zone station, its " prime-time " schedule was broadcast from 6 to 9 p. m. OEPBS bought KTVR on August 31, 1976 and converted it to PBS programming on February 1, 1977.

OEPBS purchased the station on February 19, 1976, and turned the station into a PBS affiliate, rebroadcasting OEPBS programming that was already available from KOAC and KOAP ( now KOPB ).

The PBS live music television show Austin City Limits began in 1976 and has featured, as of 2005, over 500 artists of various genres, including rock, folk, country, bluegrass and zydeco.

* 1976: A PBS television adaptation directed by Stacy Keach, and starring Andy Griffith, John Houseman, and Stacy's brother James Keach ; now available on DVD

OEPBS ( now Oregon Public Broadcasting ) bought KTVR on August 31, 1976, and converted it to PBS programming on February 1, 1977.

While this move assured north-central Florida and southwest Georgia of PBS service, it also meant that Tallahassee would have a long wait for full service from all three major commercial networks — another commercial station wouldn't sign on in Tallahassee until WTXL-TV opened in 1976.

( 1976 ), Little Murders ( 1971 ), Barbara ( 1970 ), Arthur Kopit's Indians on Broadway, and a 1971 PBS television drama, They.

* 1976: Upstairs, Downstairs ( PBS )