The Glittering Prizes was a critical sensation when it premiered on PBS in the lat 1970s. Frederic Raphael's tale portrays the hopes and frustrations of an entire generation through the story of a group of friends who meet at the prestigious Cambridge University in the 1950s. Tom Conti and Barbara Kellerman lead an outstanding ensemble cast in a series of six 80 minute episodes that follow the evolution of these privileged, idealistic college students through the turbulent 1960s and into the 1970s where their lives diverge and they struggle with emotional disillusionment and varying levels of worldly success.