''Seventh Avenue'' is a six-part American television

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broadcast in 1977. It is based on the 1967

Norman Bogner Norman Bogner (November 13, 1935 – December 12, 2022) was a New York Times Bestselling- author whose range of work has included several novels such as '' Seventh Avenue'', ''The Deadliest Art'', ''To Die in Provence'' and ''The Madonna Compl ...

novel of the same name. The miniseries was directed by Richard Irving and Russ Marberry, and produced by Franklin Barton and Richard Irving. The music is by

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. ''Seventh Avenue'' was broadcast on

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from February 10 to February 24, 1977 as six episodes in three two-hour blocks, as part of NBC's weekly miniseries series, '' Best Sellers''. It stars

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and

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. The storyline deals with a poor young man (Keats) from

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who is determined to rise to the top of the garment industry on Seventh Avenue.

Cast

- Jay Blackman *

- Rhoda Gold Blackman *

- Eva Myers *

- Myrna Gold *

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- Al Blackman *

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- Joe Vitelli * Richard Dimitri - Frank Topo *

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- Finklestein *

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- Morris Blackman *

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- Harry Lee *

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- Douglas Fredericks *

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- Dave Shaw *

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- Gus Farber *

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- John Myers * John Pleshette - Marty Cass *

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- Edward Gold * Anne Berger - Celia Blackman * Joshua Freund - Neal Blackman *

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- Moll *

Brock Peters Brock Peters (born George Fisher; July 2, 1927 – August 23, 2005) was an American actor, best known for playing the villainous "Crown" in the 1959 film version of ''Porgy and Bess'', and Tom Robinson in the 1962 film ''To Kill a Mockingbird ...

- Sgt. Rollins *

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- Paula Cass *

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- Horton * Lou Cristolo - Creeden *

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- Ray Boone *

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- Det. Clever

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