Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

Aired 1987-09-30

Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.

Aired 1987-10-07

Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.

Aired 1987-10-14

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.