John Adams

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TV Specials: 0
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Season 1 Guide (2008)

	1x01 Part 1 - Join or Die Adams' reputation as a crusader for justice is enforced after the Boston Massacre in 1770, and is invited to join as a member of the Continental Congress ...	Mar. 16, 2008
	1x02 Part 2 - Independence Debates are spurred among the Continental Congress after the British attacks on Lexington and Concord in 1775, but Adams is met with skepticism by some ...	Mar. 16, 2008
	1x03 Part 3 - Don't Tread on Me In an effort to land support the colonist's revolt against the British, John Adams and Ben Franklin head to France. Finding only mixed results in Paris, ...	Mar. 23, 2008
	1x04 Part 4 - Reunion In 1781, while recovering from an illness in Holland, Adams is informed of Cornwallis's surrender to Washington and is eventually reunited with Abigail ...	Mar. 30, 2008
	1x05 Part 5 - Unite or Die Having been elected as the country's first vice president, Adams is disappointed by the small role in the government he has been given, and sees his friendship ...	Apr. 06, 2008
	1x06 Part 6 - Unnecessary War President Adams struggles to keep the U.S. out of a war with France. But his retention of Washington's cabinet and his support for the Alien and Sedition ...	Apr. 13, 2008
	1x07 Part 7 - Peacefield In retirement, John Adams begins to write his memoirs and works on mending his relationship with Thomas Jefferson through a series of correspondence. John ...	Apr. 20, 2008

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Season 1 Characters

John Adams	played by Paul Giamatti
Abigail Adams	played by Laura Linney
Thomas Jefferson	played by Stephen Dillane
Benjamin Rush	played by John Dossett
Nabby Adams Smith	played by Sarah Polley
Thomas Adams	played by Samuel Barnett
Colonel William Smith	played by Andrew Scott
George Washington	played by David Morse
Samuel Adams	played by Danny Huston
Young John Quincy Adams	played by Steven Hinkle
John Quincy Adams	played by Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Sally Smith Adams	played by Mamie Gummer
Charles Adams	played by Kevin Trainor
Young Nabby Adams	played by Madeline Taylor
Benjamin Franklin	played by Tom Wilkinson
Young Charles Adams	played by Michael Hall D'Addario
The Senator	played by Landon Ashworth
Alexander Hamilton	played by Rufus Sewell
John Dickinson	played by Zeljko Ivanek
John Hancock	played by Justin Theroux
Madame Helv�tius	played by Judith Magre
Elbridge Gerry	played by Tom Beckett
Robert Treat Paine	played by Brennan Brown

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Season 1 Videos

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Season 1 Quotes

Season 1 / Episode 4: - Part 4 - Reunion

John Adams: [before King George III; softly] The United States of America... [pause] [harder] The United States of America have appointed me Minister plenipotentiary to your Majesty. I think myself more fortunate than all of my fellow citizens in having the distinguishing honor, to be the first to stand in your Majesty's presences in a diplomatic character. I shall esteem myself the happiest of men if I can be instrumental in restoring the confidence and affection, or in better words the good old nature and good old humour, between peoples who, though separated by an ocean and under different governments, have the same language, same religion and kindred blood. [steps forward] I beg your Majesty's permission to add that, though I have been before entrusted by my country, it was never in my whole life in a manner more agreeable to myself.

Season 1 / Episode 4: - Part 4 - Reunion

King George III: The circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary, the language you have now held is so extremely proper and the feelings you have discovered so justly adapted to the occasion, that I not only receive with pleasure the assurance of the friendly disposition of the United States, but that I am very glad that the choice has fallen on you to be their Minister. [pause] I will be very frank with you: I was the *last* to consent to separation. But the separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
John Adams: [emotionally touched] Thank you, your Majesty. [a brief exchange of smiles ensues]

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Season 1 Trivia

Episode 07 - In real life, Adams and Jefferson had resumed their friendship through correspondence while Abigail was still alive.
Episode 04 - Following the cost-saving tradition of both Titanic (1997) and Evan Almighty (2007), the ship (dockside scene) was fully detailed only on her starboard side; the port side was left rough.

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