Buster Keaton as Self (archive footage)
Episodes 3
Episode One
September 30, 1987
• 53m
1x1
Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.
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October 7, 1987
• 53m
1x2
Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.
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Season Finale
October 14, 1987
• 52m
1x3
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.
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