Air date: 1987-09-30

Runtime: 53 min

Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.

Air date: 1987-10-07

Runtime: 53 min

Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.

Air date: 1987-10-14

Runtime: 52 min

The great Keaton revival began in 1949 with a tribute in Life Magazine to the silent comics. By the time Keaton died in 1966 he had been acclaimed as one of the giants of the cinema.