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The '60s

0.0 2 Eps Drama   1999
Lynda Obst Productions   NBC Studios  

Release Date: 07 Sun, Feb 1999

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

  

Seasons (1)

Season 1

Season 1

2 Episodes

Casts of Season 1

Josh Hamilton

as Michael Herlihy

Julia Stiles

as Katie Herlihy

Jerry O'Connell

as Brian Herlihy

Jeremy Sisto

as Kenny Klein

Jordana Brewster

as Sarah Weinstock

Leonard Roberts

as Emmet Taylor

Bill Smitrovich

as Bill Herlihy

Annie Corley

as Mary Herlihy

Donovan Leitch

as Neal Reynolds

David Alan Grier

as Fred Hampton

Charles S. Dutton

as Reverend Willie Taylor

Cliff Gorman

as Father Daniel Berrigan

April Mills

as Constance

Marc Blucas

as Buddy Wells

Jenna Byrne

as Melissa

Carnie Wilson

as Mama Earth

Kimberly Scott

as Althea Taylor

Sara Van Horn

as Sister Elisabeth

Chonique Sneed

as Dancer

John C. Meier

as Cop #3

David Denman

as SDS Radical

Ronald William Lawrence

as Civil Rights Leader #1

Monti Sharp

as Civil Rights Leader #2

Brian Donovan

as Chicago Delegate / Reed Student

Raynor Scheine

as Sheriff

Gibbs Tolsdorf

as Marine

James Arone

as Father Monahan

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