The Washington Post, May 18th, 1997
Airing Sunday and Monday at 9, NBC's "The Odyssey" -- a term now synonymous with a long, adventure-filled journey -- has much to keep viewers interested, and it should. At $40 million, it is said by its producers to be the most expensive television production per-hour ever made. Indeed, they show you the money in animatronics and special effects, exotic location shooting and the large, star-filled international cast. This account of Homer's epic story-poem, written about 720 B.C. and based on events that occurred about 1230 B.C., begins with the birth of Odysseus and Penelope's son, Telemachus...
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