Reel 746

HERMAN WOUK'S WORLD WAR II BLOCKBUSTER BEGINS Debut: Launching Herman Wouk's sequel to "The Winds of War," a 30-hour TV blitz interweaving personal dramas with recreations of events in Europe and the Pacific from 1941 to 1945. Several original cast members reprise their roles, notably Robert Mitchum as U.S. Navy Capt. Victor "Pug" Henry. In Part 1, Pug takes command of a cruiser in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But Pug doesn't take the lead in the first chapter, which revolves around . . . Pug's son Byron (Hart Bochner), embroiled in submarine warfare in the South China Sea; Pug's lover Pamela (Victoria Tennant), entangled in the Japanese invasion of the Malay States; Byron's Jewish wife Natalie (Jane Seymour), trying to flee Europe and the Holocaust; and the plight of Auschwitz inmates, dramatized in painful scenes filmed at the actual site of the concentration camp in Poland. The miniseries continues in six more installments this week and next. The concluding segments (totaling 12 hours) will air later this season.

Volume I. Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. A son named Anthony Jr. A mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home. A hot-headed uncle. A not-too-secret mistress. And a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss. These days, it's getting tougher and tougher to make a killing in the killing business. Just because you're "made" ... doesn't mean you've got it made.

THE WORLD WAR II BLOCKBUSTER BEGINS Debut: Launching Herman Wouk's sequel to "The Winds of War," a 30-hour TV blitz interweaving personal dramas with recreations of events in Europe and the Pacific from 1941 to 1945. Several original cast members reprise their roles, notably Robert Mitchum as U.S. Navy Capt. Victor "Pug" Henry. In Part 1, Pug takes command of a cruiser in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But Pug doesn't take the lead in the first chapter, which revolves around Pug's son Byron (Hart Bochner), embroiled in submarine warfare in the South China Sea; Pug's lover Pamela (Victoria Tennant), entangled in the Japanese invasion of the Malay States; Byron's Jewish wife Natalie (Jane Seymour), trying to flee Europe and the Holocaust, and the plight of Auschwitz inmates, dramatized in painful scenes filmed at the actual site of the concentration camp in Poland. The miniseries continues in six more installments this week and next. The concluding segments (totaling 12 hours) will air later this season.

HERMAN WOUK'S; THE WORLD WAR II BLOCKBUSTER BEGINS; Debut: Launching Herman Wouk's sequel to "The Winds of War," a 30-hour TV blitz interweaving personal dramas with recreations of events in Europe and the Pacific from 1941 to 1945. Several original cast members reprise their roles, notably Robert Mitchum as U.S. Navy Capt. Victor "Pug" Henry. In Part 1, Pug takes command of a cruiser in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But Pug doesn't take the lead in the first chapter, which revolves around . . . Pug's son Byron (Hart Bochner), embroiled in submarine warfare in the South China Sea; Pug's lover Pamela (Victoria Tennant), entangled in the Japanese invasion of the Malay States; Byron's Jewish wife Natalie (Jane Seymour), trying to flee Europe and the Holocaust; and the plight of Auschwitz inmates, dramatized in painful scenes filmed at the actual site of the concentration camp in Poland. The miniseries continues in six more installments this week and next. The concluding segments (totaling 12 hours) will air later this season.