1976

Eleanor and Franklin
ABC miniseries
Daniel Petrie, director
Edward Teets, unit production manager
Lynn Guthrie, first assistant director
Jack Frost Sanders, second assistant director

Joseph P. Lash's Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller about the Roosevelts from their teen years through FDR's unprecedented presidency was remarkably realized in this outstanding production, relying on the perceptive and uncanny performances by Edward Herrmann and Jane Alexander in the leads. The film won Emmy Awards for outstanding special, Petrie's direction, James Costigan's telepay and Rosemary Murphy's performance as Sara Delano Roosevelt, and Herrmann and Alexander were nominated. The production also featured Ed Flanders, Pamela Franklin, Linda Purl and Mackenzie Phillips..