Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow - Miniseries
1 - Episode One
Air Date: September 30, 1987
Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.
2 - Episode Two
Air Date: October 7, 1987
Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.
3 - Episode Three
Air Date: October 14, 1987
The great Keaton revival began in 1949 with a tribute in Life Magazine to the silent comics. By the time Keaton died in 1966 he had been acclaimed as one of the giants of the cinema.