Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution,…

An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member’s plan to kidnap her young son from the boy’s wealthy grandfather.

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

After suffering a brutal trauma, Julia uses an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself.