Between Slattery's People and The West Wing

One of the most worthwhile- if brief- series in TV history

Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Joseph Campanella in A Clear and Present Danger (1970)

Robert Reed and E.G. Marshall in The Defenders (1961)

Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, and Susannah York in The Silent Partner (1978)

Hal Holbrook

Michael Tolan

Kate Hawley

S.S. Schweitzer

A.J. Russell

Hays Stowe is a new senator who comes to Washington DC with his wife Erin and daughter Norma. He arrives full of optimism that being on the side of justice can help him change things for the better.

The Bold Ones: The Senator

Between Slattery&apos;s People and The West Wing

It is ironic that the world&apos;s most successful democracy has produced only three good Television shows about democracy. In 1964 and 1965, Richard Crenna starred in the highly praised Slattery&apos;s People,about the minority leader of a state legislature.Sadly, Slattery&apos;s People was crushed in the ratings and is little remembered today, other than by TV buffs and political junkies. Much later came the much more successful The West Wing, which focused on the travails of a President and his staff. In between these two shows came a segment of The Bold Ones called The Senator. Hal Holbrook played Hayes Stowe, an idealistic, crusading junior senator from an unknown state, who combined elements of Birch Bayh, Bobby Kennedy and Mark Hatfield. I still remember some episodes of The Senator, and I understand that The Bold Ones is rerun on the Retro TV network, Perhaps the nice folks at Retro could get around to eventually rerunning Slattery&apos;s People as well.

It is ironic that the world's most successful democracy has produced only three good Television shows about democracy. In 1964 and 1965, Richard Crenna starred in the highly praised Slattery's People,about the minority leader of a state legislature.Sadly, Slattery's People was crushed in the ratings and is little remembered today, other than by TV buffs and political junkies. Much later came the much more successful The West Wing, which focused on the travails of a President and his staff. In between these two shows came a segment of The Bold Ones called The Senator. Hal Holbrook played Hayes Stowe, an idealistic, crusading junior senator from an unknown state, who combined elements of Birch Bayh, Bobby Kennedy and Mark Hatfield. I still remember some episodes of The Senator, and I understand that The Bold Ones is rerun on the Retro TV network, Perhaps the nice folks at Retro could get around to eventually rerunning Slattery's People as well.

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