The Powers That Be (TV series)
The Powers That Be was a United States television show created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman. At the center of the series is U.S. Senator William Powers, his status-hungry wife, Margaret, his aides Jordan Miller and Bradley Grist. The family included the wacky Caitlyn Van Horne, her husband Theodore a Congressman and their son Pierce, Charlotte, their maid, and Sophie Lipkin, the Senator's illegitimate daughter.
Time
- 19 episodes - 17x30 min. 2x60 min.
- US dates: 7 March, 1992-16 January, 1993
Producers
- Marta Kauffman - Creator
- David Crane - Creator
- Norman Lear - Executive Producer
- Charlotte Brown - Executive Producer
- Mark E Pollack - Executive Producer
- Patricia Fass Palmer - Producer
Cast
- John Forsythe - Sen. William Powers
- Holland Taylor - Margaret Powers
- Eve Gordon - Jordan Miller
- Peter MacNicol - Bradley Grist
- Valerie Mahaffey - Caitlyn Van Horne
- David Hyde Pierce - Theodore Van Horne
- Elizabeth Berridge - Charlotte
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Pierce Van Horne
- Robin Bartlett - Sophie Lipkin