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With Ossie & Ruby: Solo Song for Doc

a 1940s-era drama about Doc Craft, a dining car waiter who realizes his company wants him to retire.

08/18/2025

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.

08/18/2025

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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.

08/18/2025

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