1977

Eleanor and Franklin - The White House Years
ABC miniseries
Daniel Petrie, director
Edward Teets, unit production manager
Wolfgang Glattes, first assistant director
Jack Frost Sanders, second assistant director

The second time around was just as good as the first as Petrie and the same production team and largely the same cast from the previous year's original took the nation's midcentury first couple in more detail through the Depression years and into the World War II years. Petrie and the show, presented as a David Susskind production on ABC Theatre, again won Emmy Awards, and Edward Herrmann and Jane Alexander again received nominations for their work as FDR and Eleanor. Rosemary Murphy, Mark Harmon and Walter McGinn were also nominated, and the cast included Blair Brown, Anna Lee and Donald Moffat.