Broadcast: Jan. 2-Feb. 6, 1972. A dramatization of the marital misadventures of England's Henry VIII who established the Church of England in his attempts to disentangle himself from his first wife, only to marry five more women in an attempt to have a male son as heir to the throne: Catherine of Aragon, the strong-willed widow of Henry's brother; Anne Boleyn, the witty and beautiful woman who is beheaded on a charge of adultery; Jane Seymour, who dies after bearing the sickly Edward; Anne of Cleves; Catherine Howard; and Catherine Parr. Keith Michell stars as Henry VIII. See January 1972 Prime Time Program Guide for cover story.
