Join or Die
- Episode aired Mar 16, 2008
- TV-14
- 1h 11m
Firebrand Sam Adams tries to dissuade cousin John from defending redcoats in the Boston Massacre, but later John changes his mind and joins the revolutionary cause.Firebrand Sam Adams tries to dissuade cousin John from defending redcoats in the Boston Massacre, but later John changes his mind and joins the revolutionary cause.Firebrand Sam Adams tries to dissuade cousin John from defending redcoats in the Boston Massacre, but later John changes his mind and joins the revolutionary cause.
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- TriviaBy 1770, when the series starts, John Adams and Abigail, his wife, had been married for 5 years. They were 35 years old and 25 years old respectively.
- GoofsAt the end of Episode 1, when John Adams is leaving to attend the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1775, Abigail is very pregnant, presumably with their son, Thomas. But Thomas was actually born three years prior, in 1772, and it's too early for what would be the (still) birth of Elizabeth, which was 1777. The Adamses had four living children in 1775, not three.
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[John Adams has agreed to defend Captain Thomas Preston and the Boston Soldiers]
Samuel Adams: You haven't much of a case, John.
John Adams: Do I not?
Samuel Adams: No Boston Jury will ever vote for aquittal.
John Adams: Thank you for your kind advice, Sam.
Samuel Adams: This is not a time for showing how clever you are, cousin.
[Approaches John and hands him a pamphlet]
Samuel Adams: This is a time for choosing sides.
John Adams: I am for the law, cousin. Is there another side?
Samuel Adams: [shouts to the crowd while John looks at the pamphlet depicting the Boston Massacre] There are those who fight for our rights as natural-born Englishmen, and those that would strip us of those rights!
John Adams: I do not have the luxury of your birth or your purse, Sam, to spend my days fomenting dissension.
[Calls out to Samuel]
John Adams: I intend to prove this colony is governed by law. Whatever you or your Sons of Liberty may say on the matter!
Samuel Adams: We're all Sons of Liberty here.
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Written by William Billings
For my part I find this an engrossing legal procedural and one of the strongest episodes.
- CubsandCulture
- Apr 9, 2021
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- Runtime1 hour 11 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1