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Chiefs is a 1983 CBS television miniseries adapted from Stuart Woods's novel of the same name. Set across several decades in the fictional Georgia town of Delano, it follows successive police chiefs investigating disappearances connected to a long-running series of murders. The crime drama features Charlton Heston, Keith Carradine, Stephen Collins, Billy Dee Williams, and a young John Goodman, and received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Limited Series.
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What mystery connects the three generations in Chiefs?
Each police chief in the Georgia town of Delano encounters evidence connected to missing boys and an uncaught serial killer. The investigation stretches across decades because prejudice, limited forensic methods and local power repeatedly obstruct the truth.
Who plays the three police chiefs in the 1983 miniseries?
Wayne Rogers plays Will Henry Lee, Brad Davis plays Sonny Butts and Billy Dee Williams plays Tyler Watts. Their successive tenures show how policing and race relations change in Delano across the twentieth century.
Is Chiefs based on a true story?
No, it adapts Stuart Woods's 1981 novel Chiefs and uses the fictional town of Delano, Georgia. Its historical background, including segregation and the changing role of Black police officers in the South, draws on real social conditions.
How long is Chiefs, and was it originally a television series?
Chiefs was produced as a three-part CBS miniseries and first broadcast in 1983. It was later circulated in home-video and syndicated versions whose running times can differ because of edits and commercial breaks.
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