E01 · Episode 1 50m
10/29/1980
1938: Robert Oppenheimer meets and decides to marry the hard-drinking, much-divorced Kitty, although his friends and relatives dislike her.
E02 · Episode 2 50m
11/3/1980
1942: America is at war. Now in charge of the top-secret Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer's left-wing politics mean that he's constantly under surveillance by the FBI and others.
E03 · Episode 3 50m
11/12/1980
1943: Oppenheimer is appointed director of Los Alamos, but his past Communist associations alert the FBI. Meanwhile, his extramarital relationship with the neurotic Jean Tatlock comes to a tragic end.
E04 · Episode 4 50m
11/19/1980
Summer 1944: With the death of President Roosevelt, the future of the Manhattan Project seems doubtful. Oppenheimer finds himself more and more at loggerheads with Teller.
E05 · Episode 5 50m
11/27/1980
May 1945: The European war is over but the conflict with Japan rages on. Oppenheimer discusses the almost completed atomic bomb with the Secretary of War. However, his colleagues have misgivings.
E06 · Episode 6 50m
12/3/1980
1949: A few years after the war, Oppenheimer finds himself regarded as a security risk, and must face the HUAC committee.
E07 · Episode 7 50m
12/10/1980
December 1953: Oppenheimer's examination by the committee proves disastrous and his career with the AEC is finished, whilst that of his rival Teller flourishes.