Picks and Pans Review: Lbj

By David Hiltbrand

UPDATED 09/30/1991 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 09/30/1991 at 01:00 AM EDT

PBS (Mon., Sept. 30, 9 P.M. ET)

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Airing over two nights, this season premiere of The American Experience is an insightful, extensively detailed portrait of Lyndon Johnson as both consummate politician and confounding personality. Directed by David Grubin, the program ranges from LBJ's barnstorming congressional campaigns through Texas in the '30s and '40s to his turbulent years in the White House.