The Awakening Land (1978-TV; Part I: The Trees) Elizabeth Montgomery, Hal Holbrook, Jane Seymour

Part One of the made-for-television miniseries based upon Conrad Richter's pioneer trilogy, "The Awakening Land". Aired from Feb. 19 to Feb. 21, 1978, on NBC. Nominated for several Emmy Awards. The Awakening Land was a series of three novels that explore the lives of a frontier family in the Ohio Valley from the late 18th century to the middle of the 19th. The series consists of The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950); the third novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. First film or television role of actor William H. Macy.