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3 unusual facts about One Summer


One Summer

One Summer is a 1983 British television drama serial written by Willy Russell and directed by Gordon Flemyng.

One Summer: America 1927

For example, the rapid rise and equally rapid fall of the business empire of the Van Sweringen brothers is discussed, with its glimpses of future suburbia (at Shaker Heights, Ohio) and future shopping malls (at Union Terminal), as well as the brothers' penurious ends.

The events include the nonstop transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh; the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; the amazing season played by Babe Ruth and the rest of the 1927 New York Yankees; the transition from the Ford Model T to the new Model A; the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti; and the advent of the talking-picture era with the release of The Jazz Singer.



see also

A Summer Evening with Floating di Morel

Filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios follow the group through one "summer evening" in the style of Direct Cinema.

Goodbye, Columbus

One summer, Neil meets and falls for Brenda Patimkin, a student at Radcliffe College who is from a wealthy family living in the affluent suburb of Short Hills.

Hilary Knight

Returning to New York, he studied architectural drafting (at Delahanty Institute), interior design and theatre design, working for one summer as an assistant designer at an Ogunquit, Maine theater.

Iona Banks

She played Mrs. Roberts in Our Day Out (1977), Mrs Roberts in Part 2 of Willy Russell's 1983 TV series One Summer and barmaid Gwladys Lake in the Welsh television soap opera Pobol y Cwm.

Josh Pahigian

The mystery, set in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, crosses the story-line of a billionaire adventurer, who arrives in Old Orchard Beach under unusual circumstances one summer, with the stories of several townies.

Michele Fawdon

She played the role of Australian 19th-century painter Jane Sutherland in the 1985 ABC-TV mini-series One Summer Again.

Split Training Option

This program allows individuals to attend United States Army Basic Training during one summer, then attend Advance Individual Training the next.

ZJ Boarding House

One summer they set up an outdoor showing of the surfing film, Five Summer Stories.