Episodes
Anastasia: Her True Story
January 9, 1997
Andy Griffith: Hollywood's Homespun Hero
January 16, 1997
Augustus: First of the Emperors
January 23, 1997
Ayatollah Khomeini: Holy Terror
January 30, 1997
Caligula: Reign of Madness
February 6, 1997
Charles Kuralt: A Life on the Road
February 13, 1997
Constantine: The Christian Emperor
February 20, 1997
David Copperfield: Master of Illusion
February 27, 1997
Diana: The People's Princess
March 6, 1997
Dow and Jones: Wizards of Wall Street
March 13, 1997
Dutch Schultz: Menace to Society
March 20, 1997
Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Psychic
March 27, 1997
Edward R. Murrow: Voice of America
April 3, 1997
Eliot Ness: Untouchable
April 10, 1997
Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen
April 17, 1997
Elizabeth: The Reluctant Monarch
April 24, 1997
Erwin Rommel: The Last Knight
May 1, 1997
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer
May 8, 1997
Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Mob
May 15, 1997
General George C. Marshall: Soldier and Statesman
May 22, 1997
George Armstrong Custer: America's Golden Cavalier
May 29, 1997
Hadrian: Emperor of the Golden Age
June 5, 1997
Ivan the Terrible: Might and Madness
June 12, 1997
J.C. Penney: Main Street Millionaire
June 19, 1997
JFK: A Personal Story
June 26, 1997
Jimmy Stewart: His Wonderful Life
July 3, 1997
Joseph Kennedy: Father of an American Dynasty
July 10, 1997
Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World
July 17, 1997
Justinian: The Last of the Romans
July 24, 1997
Katharine Graham: Pillar of the Post
July 31, 1997
Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance Master
August 7, 1997
Lucrezia Borgia: Pretty Poison
August 14, 1997
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man and the Dream
August 21, 1997
Meyer Lansky: Mob Tycoon
August 28, 1997
Mother Teresa: A Life of Devotion
September 4, 1997
Nancy Reagan: The President's Leading Lady
September 11, 1997
Neiman Marcus: Last of the Merchant Kings
September 18, 1997
Nelson Rockefeller: Passionate Millionaire
September 25, 1997
Nero: The Power and the Madness
October 2, 1997
Pancho Villa: Outlaw Hero
October 9, 1997
R.H. Macy: Merchant Prince
October 16, 1997
Sam Giancana
October 23, 1997
Sam Walton: Bargain Billionaire
October 30, 1997
Samuel Bronfman: Whiskey Man
November 6, 1997
Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind
November 13, 1997
Stanley & Livingstone: The Mercenary and the Missionary
November 20, 1997
The Gambinos: First Family of Crime
September 21, 1997
A profile of New York's Gambino crime family examines the rise of its founder, Carlo Gambino, and that of his successors, Paul Castellano and John Gotti.
The Marshall Fields: A Chicago Tradition
December 4, 1997
The Woolworths: Five-and-Dime Fortune and Failure
December 11, 1997
Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All
December 18, 1997
Vladimir Lenin: Voice of the Revolution
December 25, 1997