Captains and the Kings - Season 1

Captains and the Kings - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes8
DatesSept. 30, 1976 - Nov. 25, 1976

Episodes

Chapter I
Season 1Episode 160 min

Chapter I

Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh and his two younger siblings Sean and Mary escape a ship on the harbor of New York. The situation ashore is problematic, jobs are scarce and food equally scarce. Aboard the ship their mother has died from disease, but they have a hope; their father is in Philadelphia awaiting them. The siblings run away, and discovers their father to be dead to, and young teenager Joseph places his siblings in an Orphanage while he himself goes to make money, become rich and get them out of poverty. The first episode follows Joseph for a few years through a series of struggles, and how he starts earning his first dollars and setting off into speculation in oil, together with his new-won friend, the Lebanese Haroun Al-Zieff (later: Harry Seff). The beginnings of a true rags-to-riches-story.
Sept. 30, 1976
Chapter II
Season 1Episode 260 min

Chapter II

A few years of successful gun running and Joseph Armagh becomes a partner in the oil company of Ed Healey.
Okt. 7, 1976
Chapter III
Season 1Episode 360 min

Chapter III

Joseph Armagh rejects the love of Elizabeth Healey, learns of the dying Katherine Hennessey's unrequited love, promising to wed her daughter Bernadette before Katherine's jealous husband goes too far in a salacious attack on Joseph.
Okt. 14, 1976
Chapter IV
Season 1Episode 460 min

Chapter IV

Tensions escalate between the labor unions and the railroad, as Joseph Armagh fathers four children with Bernadette even as he seeks to avenge himself on her father for depriving him of the two great loves of his life.
Okt. 28, 1976
Chapter V
Season 1Episode 560 min

Chapter V

Joseph Armagh's attempted blackmail of an upstanding senator results in suicide and a lasting curse.
Nov. 4, 1976
Chapter VI
Season 1Episode 660 min

Chapter VI

Rory Armagh romances Marjorie Chisholm while his sister Anne-Marie's relationship with Courtney Wickersham crashes and burns through no fault of their own.
Nov. 11, 1976
Chapter VII
Season 1Episode 760 min

Chapter VII

While his son Rory searches for brother Kevin with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the jungles of Cuba, Joseph Armagh quietly orchestrates the annulment of Rory's marriage to Marjorie Chisholm.
Nov. 18, 1976
Chapter VIII
Season 1Episode 860 min

Chapter VIII

Rory Armagh seeks the Democratic nomination for President over Woodrow Wilson, while his father ponders a lifetime without love.
Nov. 25, 1976

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