Call to Glory: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Call to Glory was intended as an ABC mini-series, deplicting the turbelent 1960's as seen through the eyes of an Air Force family, a pre-Coach Craig T Nelson stars as Col. Raynor Sarnac and Cindy Picket as his wife Vanessa and Elisabeth Shue and Gabriel Damon with David Hollander and C Thomas Howell and the late Keenam Wynn as the Sarnac family. The two hour pilot focuses on the Cuban Missle crisis of 1962. This pilot and the mini series itself were originally intended to be aired on ABC in the spring of 1984, but ABC smelled potential in the project and ordered that it be expanded into a thirteen week series. The premiere was moved up to August 13, 1984 with the pilot unveiled right after ABC'S Olympics coverage. Call To Glory was an immediate ratings success at the outset; alas ABC'S decision to move away from the historical aspects of the show to concentrate on the soapish goings on with the Sarnac family prompted a severe viewer dropoff.

Series details

• Title: Call to Glory
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 1984-08-13
• Final broadcast date listed: 1985-06-30
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ABC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 65 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 42735
• IMDb ID: tt0086678
• TVDB ID: 75247

Cast and credited roles

• Craig T. Nelson — Colonel Raynor Sarnac
• Cindy Pickett — Vanessa Sarnac
• Elisabeth Shue — Jackie Sarnac
• Gabriel Damon — R.H. Sarnac
• David Hollander — Wesley Sarnac
• Keenan Wynn — Carl Sarnac
• Tom O'Brien — Patrick Thomas
• J.D. Cannon — Major General Mike Hampton
• Priscilla Pointer — Lillie
• David Baker — Tom Bonelli

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1984-08-13; final listed air date 1985-06-30; episode order: 23.

Source and licence

Adapted from Call to Glory on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.