April 16, 1978 –
Directed by Marvin Chomsky and written by Gerald Green, the television mini-series, Holocaust, starring Fritz Weaver, Joseph Bottoms, Michael Moriarty, David Warner, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, Ian Holm, George Rose, Meryl Streep, James Woods, Blanche Baker, and Sam Wanamaker, recounts the Nazi genocide of European Jewry through two fictional families in Berlin: the Weisses, who are Jewish, and the Dorfs, who are Christian, premiered on NBC on this date.
So many people watched this mini-series in New York City when first broadcast, that when commercials were on, the local water pressure dropped, due to so many people using their toilets at once.
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