Television continues to count on real-life stories...
Television continues to count on real-life stories as inspiration for much of its high-profile programming. In this week’s two new docudramas, those stories center on espionage and civil rights.
Powers Boothe (in the right photo with Jeroen Krabbe) stars in “Family of Spies,” a two-part, five-hour drama airing Sunday (9-11 p.m.) and Tuesday (8-11 p.m.) on CBS (Channels 2 and 8).
“Spies” focuses on John Walker Jr. (played by Boothe), the former Navy officer who established an espionage organization over two decades and sold secret information to the Soviets.
Lesley Ann Warren co-stars as Walker’s wife.
On Monday, NBC offers “Murder in Mississippi,” a two-hour TV movie airing at 9 p.m. on Channels 4, 36 and 39.
Tom Hulce, Blair Underwood and Josh Charles (in the left photo) play three young civil rights workers helping blacks register to vote in 1964 who were murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Cover photos taken on location in Georgia and Vienna
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