From the Archives
With Ossie & Ruby: Solo Song for Doc
Special | 29m 18s
a 1940s-era drama about Doc Craft, a dining car waiter who realizes his company wants him to retire.
This variety series features Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. In “Solo Song for Doc,” it’s man versus “the system” in this television adaptation of a short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Alan McPherson. The 1940s-era drama is about Doc Craft, a dining car waiter who realizes that the railroad company, for whom he has worked for many years, wants him to retire to hire younger, cheaper help.
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From the Archives is a local public television program presented by KERA
From the Archives
With Ossie & Ruby: Solo Song for Doc
Special | 29m 18s
This variety series features Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. In “Solo Song for Doc,” it’s man versus “the system” in this television adaptation of a short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Alan McPherson. The 1940s-era drama is about Doc Craft, a dining car waiter who realizes that the railroad company, for whom he has worked for many years, wants him to retire to hire younger, cheaper help.
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