Host: Fred Astaire                   

A 1966 television film adapted from a play by Arthur Miller. 
Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock re-create their Broadway roles in Arthur Miller's contemporary tragedy about the downfall and defeat of a man and his way of life.  

Willy Loman, 63, is a Brooklyn salesman who has always talked and thought big. The important things in his life are to be "well liked" and to make money. But after 36 years of devoting his life to the company, Willy is tired, and exhausted in mind, body and spirit. He has begun talking to himself. And, during the next two days, he talks out his entire life. 

"Death of a Salesman" opened in 1949, and won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize. 

Produced by David Susskind.                      

An American and British narrator relate their countries differing perspectives of the events leading up to American independence.