Saturday, January 13, 2007

.:: The "Centennial TV Miniseries" - 1978 ::.

Marked as on of the longest and most ambitious television project at that time with huge budget ($25 Million) most complicated (employed four directors, five cinematographers, five producers with almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras and spanning 26 & 1/2 hours of television viewing.

Centennial was based on the best-selling novel with the same title by James A. Michener, a story history of a fictional town of Centennial, Colorado under settling of American West from late 18th century to the present (1970). People came to Centennial for gold, freedom and crime for many generations among memorable frontiersmen, trappers, Indians, ranchers, cowboys, and farmers from long ago and took a 100 years for murder cases to be solved. Packed with various adventures, affairs, opportunists, tragedy, violence, dubious Western progress and racial injustice just for the name of destiny.

Full 26 & 1/2 hours tv miniseries of Centennial now on DVD available at TVAddicts.tv