The Bold Ones: The Senator

Season

1970

7.8

Hays Stowe is a new senator who comes to Washington DC with his wife Erin and daughter Norma. He arrives full of optimism that being on the side of justice can help him change things for the better.

Episode List

S1 • E1

To Taste of Death But Once

Notwithstanding a threat on his life, Senator Hays Stowe is determined to deliver his speech "The Practical Uses of Dissent in the 1970s" at Garbury College.

S1 • E2

The Day the Lion Died

Senator Hays Stowe questions the mental abilities of powerful committee chairman Homer Wydell and his ability to conduct good public policy. His wife Jean and Majority Leader Thad Brown prefer to ignore his decline for reasons of their own.

S1 • E3

Power Play

Political powerbroker George P. Mallon tests the integrity Senator Hays Stowe to support Louis Masterson. This causes Stowe to second guess how his Father played the political game when he was a Senator.

S1 • E4

A Continual Roar of Musketry: Part 1

Sen. Stowe chairs a commission that is investigating the shooting deaths of two college students by National Guard troops during an anti-war protest at a university. His task is complicated by the fact that the students, the administrators and the National Guardsmen all give different versions of what happened.

S1 • E5

A Continual Roar of Musketry: Part 2

This episode of "The Bold Ones: The Senator" shows Senator Hays Stowe (Hal Holbrook) heading an investigation into a Kent State-like incident at a University. As at Kent State, National Guard soldiers under the command of a nervous young officer (Randolph Mantooth) fire on anti-war protesters.

S1 • E6

Some Day, They'll Elect a President

When a memo by Jordan Boyle, Stowe's chief aide, get released and misinterpreted Hays pays for it. A columnist for a tabloid accuses the Senator of taking money from the syndicate.

S1 • E7

George Washington Told a Lie

A project Stowe sponsored is about to force Indians from their homes.

S1 • E8

A Single Blow of a Sword

Senator Stowe has a bill that would increase welfare to the black community, but there is a worry that the funds will be controlled by black radical Isaac Johnson. At the same time government bureaucrat Frank Dixon develops a computer program to track the money.