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Best Episodes of Captains and the Kings
Chapter IV
S1 Ep4
7.5
28th Oct 1976
Tensions escalate between the labor unions and the railroad, as Joseph Armagh fathers four children with Bernadette even as he seeks to avenge himself on her father for depriving him of the two great loves of his life.
Chapter III
S1 Ep3
7.0
14th Oct 1976
Joseph Armagh rejects the love of Elizabeth Healey, learns of the dying Katherine Hennessey's unrequited love, promising to wed her daughter Bernadette before Katherine's jealous husband goes too far in a salacious attack on Joseph.
Worst Episodes of Captains and the Kings
Chapter I
S1 Ep1
5.4
30th Sep 1976
Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh and his two younger siblings Sean and Mary escape a ship on the harbor of New York. The situation ashore is problematic, jobs are scarce and food equally scarce. Aboard the ship their mother has died from disease, but they have a hope; their father is in Philadelphia awaiting them. The siblings run away, and discovers their father to be dead to, and young teenager Joseph places his siblings in an Orphanage while he himself goes to make money, become rich and get them out of poverty. The first episode follows Joseph for a few years through a series of struggles, and how he starts earning his first dollars and setting off into speculation in oil, together with his new-won friend, the Lebanese Haroun Al-Zieff (later: Harry Seff). The beginnings of a true rags-to-riches-story.
Chapter V
S1 Ep5
6.0
4th Nov 1976
Joseph Armagh's attempted blackmail of an upstanding senator results in suicide and a lasting curse.
Captains and the Kings Episode Guide
Chapter I
S1 Ep1
5.4
30th Sep 1976
Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh and his two younger siblings Sean and Mary escape a ship on the harbor of New York. The situation ashore is problematic, jobs are scarce and food equally scarce. Aboard the ship their mother has died from disease, but they have a hope; their father is in Philadelphia awaiting them. The siblings run away, and discovers their father to be dead to, and young teenager Joseph places his siblings in an Orphanage while he himself goes to make money, become rich and get them out of poverty. The first episode follows Joseph for a few years through a series of struggles, and how he starts earning his first dollars and setting off into speculation in oil, together with his new-won friend, the Lebanese Haroun Al-Zieff (later: Harry Seff). The beginnings of a true rags-to-riches-story.
Chapter II
S1 Ep2
7.0
7th Oct 1976
A few years of successful gun running and Joseph Armagh becomes a partner in the oil company of Ed Healey.
Chapter III
S1 Ep3
7.0
14th Oct 1976
Joseph Armagh rejects the love of Elizabeth Healey, learns of the dying Katherine Hennessey's unrequited love, promising to wed her daughter Bernadette before Katherine's jealous husband goes too far in a salacious attack on Joseph.
Chapter IV
S1 Ep4
7.5
28th Oct 1976
Tensions escalate between the labor unions and the railroad, as Joseph Armagh fathers four children with Bernadette even as he seeks to avenge himself on her father for depriving him of the two great loves of his life.
Chapter V
S1 Ep5
6.0
4th Nov 1976
Joseph Armagh's attempted blackmail of an upstanding senator results in suicide and a lasting curse.
Chapter VI
S1 Ep6
6.5
11th Nov 1976
Rory Armagh romances Marjorie Chisholm while his sister Anne-Marie's relationship with Courtney Wickersham crashes and burns through no fault of their own.
Chapter VII
S1 Ep7
6.5
18th Nov 1976
While his son Rory searches for brother Kevin with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the jungles of Cuba, Joseph Armagh quietly orchestrates the annulment of Rory's marriage to Marjorie Chisholm.
Chapter VIII
S1 Ep8
6.5
25th Nov 1976
Rory Armagh seeks the Democratic nomination for President over Woodrow Wilson, while his father ponders a lifetime without love.
The best rated episodes of Captains and the Kings are:
Chapter IV S1E4 rated 7.5
Chapter III S1E3 rated 7.0
The lowest rated episodes of Captains and the Kings are:
Chapter I S1E1 rated 5.4
Chapter V S1E5 rated 6.0
The first episode of Captains and the Kings aired on September 30, 1976.
The last episode of Captains and the Kings aired on November 25, 1976.
