TV Show Details
Air Date:April 5th, 1981
Last Air Date:April 8th, 1981
Network:ABC
Status:Ended
Genres:Action & Adventure , Drama
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Arnon Milchan Productions, Universal Television
Masada (1981)
TV ShowABC
Miniseries
Audience Score
WriterJoel Oliansky
Plot
Masada is a 1981 American historical drama television miniseries aired on ABC under the tentpole ABC Novel for Television. The screenplay by Joel Oliansky is based on Ernest Gann's 1971 novel The Antagonists. A dramatization of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Roman Palestine by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73. A siege that ended when the Roman armies entered the fortress, only to discover the mass suicide by the Jewish defenders when defeat became imminent.
