Dorian Harewood Dan Ammerman Bob Banks Tom Bosley Georg Stanford Brown LeVar Burton
Theme music composer
Michel Legrand
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
Production
Executive producer
Harve Bennett
Producer
Harold Gast
Production locations
Columbus, Ohio Dallas, Texas
Cinematography
Charles Correll
Editors
Richard Bracken Robert F. Shugrue
Running time
174 min.
Production companies
Harve Bennett Productions Paramount Television Domestic Distribution
Original release
Network
Syndication
Release
July 9 (1984-07-09) – July 10, 1984 (1984-07-10)
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The Jesse Owens Story is a 1984 American two-part, four-hour[1] made-for-television[2] biographical film about the black athlete[3] Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood[4] plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more.[5] It originally premiered in syndication[6] on July 9 and 10, 1984 as part of Operation Prime Time's syndicated programming.[7]
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^Marill, Alvin H. (30 December 2008). Sports on Television. p. 56. ISBN 9780313351068.
^Kafka, Alexander (July 18, 1984). "'Nadia': Possible Dream". The Washington Post.
^Gross, Terry (July 6, 1984). "Telling Jesse Owens' Story". Fresh Air Archive.
^"The Jesse Owens Story". Television Academy. Retrieved June 14, 2018.
^Unger, Arthur (July 9, 1984). "'The Jesse Owens Story': TV tells of a black star in a white world". The Christian Science Monitor.
^Farber, Stephen (June 26, 1984). "THE MAKING OF 'JESSE OWENS'". The New York Times.
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