David Susskind Movies

The 1973 program that explored Howard Hughes’ connection to Watergate and the alleged $100,000 bribe to Nixon that may have precipitated the...

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for...

A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry," "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches," and "This Property Is...

Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo...

"An after-dinner farrago" featuring British writers and performers Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.

In 1961, David Susskind conducted a series of interviews with former President Harry Truman in Truman's hometown of Independence, Missouri. After...

A biography of President Harry S. Truman.

Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit....

In this charming TV adaptation of the 1947 film classic, a kindly old gentleman (Ed Wynn) working as a Macy's department store Santa causes a...

A cynical, self-hating, failed actor visits the gruff, earthy daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer and passes a soul-baring night of...

The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed,...

A happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, drifts into a romance with one of his customers who has been having troubles...

Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't...

The historic interview that stopped JFK in his tracks...

A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.