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Joseph Armagh
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Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1976
Captains and the Kings
Season 1
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Episode 1120 min1976-09-30
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.
Episode 260 min1976-10-07
Chapter II
A few years of successful gun running and Joseph Armagh becomes a partner in the oil company of Ed Healey.
Episode 360 min1976-10-14
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.
Episode 460 min1976-10-28
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.
Episode 560 min1976-11-04
Chapter V
Joseph Armagh's attempted blackmail of an upstanding senator results in suicide and a lasting curse.
Episode 660 min1976-11-11
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.
Episode 760 min1976-11-18
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.
Episode 8120 min1976-11-25
Chapter VIII
Rory Armagh seeks the Democratic nomination for President over Woodrow Wilson, while his father ponders a lifetime without love.
Season Cast
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Cast
Harvey Jason
Harry Zieff
Patty Duke
Bernadette Hennessey Armagh
Blair Brown
Elizabeth Healey Hennessey
Robert Vaughn
Charles Desmond
Perry King
Rory Armagh
Katherine Crawford
Mary Armagh
Jane Seymour
Marjorie Chisholm Armagh
Cynthia Sikes
Claudia
Charles Durning
Ed Healey
David Huffman
Sean Armagh
Terry Kiser
Courtney Wickersham
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