Air Date
October 29, 1980
Episodes
7 episodes
Oppenheimer
Season 1
Episodes
1. Episode 1
1938: Robert Oppenheimer's life is changed by the discovery of nuclear fission and the appearance of Kitty Harrison.
2. Episode 2
1942: America is at war. Oppenheimer is engaged in the race to produce an atomic bomb.
3. Episode 3
1943: Oppenheimer is director of Los Alamos, but his past Communist associations alert the FBI.
4. Episode 4
Summer 1944: Oppenheimer has problems with his staff and the development of the bomb.
5. Episode 5
May 1945: The European war is over but the war with Japan continues. Oppenheimer discusses the use of the almost completed atomic bomb with the secretary of War. His colleagues have misgivings.
6. Episode 6
1949 - The Oppenheimer family becomes a target of the HUAC hearings.
7. Episode 7
December 1953 - Oppenheimer falls foul of the Communist witch hunt.
Sam Waterston
Robert Oppenheimer
John Carson
Narrator
Shane Rimmer
Ed Condon
Alexander Knox
Henry Stimson
Jana Shelden
Kitty Oppenheimer
Phil Brown
Lewis Strauss
Edward Hardwicke
Enrico Fermi
David Suchet
Edward Teller
James Maxwell
Lloyd Garrison
Milton Johns
George Kistiakowsky
Barry Dennen
Isidor Rabi
Bob Sherman
Ernest Lawrence
Matthew Guinness
Hans Bethe
Christopher Malcolm
Steve Nelson
Garrick Hagon
Frank Oppenheimer
David Baxt
Colonel John Lansdale
Peter Banks
Joseph Volpe
Ron Berglas
John Manley
Colin Bennett
Seth Neddermeyer
Christopher Muncke
Colonel Kenneth Nichols