YOU ARE THERE: THE DEATH OF SOCRATES (399 B.C.) (TV)

Summary

One in this series of dramas re-enacting major historical events and covering them as current news stories. This episode, anchored by Walter Cronkite, examines the controversy surrounding the sentencing of Socrates to death, and Socrates' subsequent drinking of the poison.

Cataloging of this program has been made possible by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.

Details

• NETWORK: CBS
• DATE: May 3, 1953 Sunday 6:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:29:28
• COLOR/B&W: B&W
• CATALOG ID: T77:0248
• GENRE: Docudrama
• SUBJECT HEADING: Docudrama; History
• SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1953-1957
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• William Dozier … Executive Producer
• Charles W. Russell … Producer
• Sidney Lumet … Director
• Kate Nickerson (see also: Arnold Manoff) … Writer
• Walter Cronkite … Narrator
• Harry Marble … Correspondent
• Allan Jackson … Correspondent
• E.G. Marshall … Cast, Aristophanes
• Joseph Anthony … Cast, Crito
• Dan Morgan … Cast, Meletus
• Paul Newman … Cast, Plato
• Robert M. Culp … Cast, Xenophon
• Philip Bourneuf … Cast, Anytus
• James Gregory … Cast, Polycrates
• Richard Kiley … Cast, Apollodorus
• John Baragrey … Cast, Phaedo
• Barry Jones … Cast, Socrates
• Victor Thorley … Cast, the Jailer