Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie Executive producers Roy Huggins, Jo Swerling Jr. Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series Similar Once an Eagle, Rich Man - Poor Man, Guyana Tragedy: The Story, City of Angels, The Rockford Files |
Best Sellers (also known as NBC Best Sellers) was a television series broadcast by NBC during the 1976–77 season. It consisted of several mini-series based on best-selling novels, shown in a rotating series of several episodes each. The theme music was composed by Elmer Bernstein, who also scored Captains and the Kings.
The concept was similar to 1950s television serialised dramas, when plays and novels were formatted into several broadcast episodes under a single umbrella program title. It was one of the earliest examples of the modern mini-series format. The format, however, apparently did not seem to work for NBC in the mid-1970s, which ended the series after one season.
The series included the following:
Note: In Britain ITV screened numerous miniseries in addition to the ones above under the Best Sellers banner until the mid-1980s, such as 79 Park Avenue, Studs Lonigan, A Man Called Intrepid, Condominium and Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls. Although it maintained the overall title, most were not produced by Universal Television (but 79 Park Avenue and Condominium were).
DVD releases
On 13 January 2009, Koch Vision released a 3-DVD set of "Captains and the Kings" on DVD in Region 1. The three-disc boxset features all eight episodes.
On 31 August 2010, Timeless Media Group released a 2-DVD set of "Once an Eagle" on DVD in Region 1. The two-disc boxset features all seven episodes.
On 31 July 2007, Universal Studios released "The Rhinemann Exchange" on DVD in Region 1. All three episodes are on one disk.
Seventh Avenue is not available on Home Video.