This seven-part series highlights scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer from 1938 to 1953 as he develops the Atomic bomb.
Oppenheimer (Season 1)
Episode 1 (Episode 1)
Writer: Peter Prince
Air date: 1980-10-29
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: 1938: Robert Oppenheimer meets and decides to marry the hard-drinking, much-divorced Kitty, although his friends and relatives dislike her.
Episode 2 (Episode 2)
Writer: Peter Prince
Air date: 1980-11-03
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: 1942: America is at war. Now in charge of the top-secret Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer's left-wing politics mean that he's constantly under surveillance by the FBI and others.
Episode 3 (Episode 3)
Writer: Peter Prince
Air date: 1980-11-12
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: 1943: Oppenheimer is appointed director of Los Alamos, but his past Communist associations alert the FBI. Meanwhile, his extramarital relationship with the neurotic Jean Tatlock comes to a tragic end.
Episode 4 (Episode 4)
Writer: Peter Prince
Air date: 1980-11-19
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: Summer 1944: With the death of President Roosevelt, the future of the Manhattan Project seems doubtful. Oppenheimer finds himself more and more at loggerheads with Teller.
Episode 5 (Episode 5)
Writer: Peter Prince
Air date: 1980-11-27
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: May 1945: The European war is over but the conflict with Japan rages on. Oppenheimer discusses the almost completed atomic bomb with the Secretary of War. However, his colleagues have misgivings.
Episode 6 (Episode 6)
Writer: Peter Prince
Air date: 1980-12-03
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: 1949: A few years after the war, Oppenheimer finds himself regarded as a security risk, and must face the HUAC committee.
Episode 7 (Episode 7)
Writer: Peter Prince
Air date: 1980-12-10
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: December 1953: Oppenheimer's examination by the committee proves disastrous and his career with the AEC is finished, whilst that of his rival Teller flourishes.
Seasons
Episodes 7