Is a television program airing on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television stations in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history. Season 18 - Episode 5 - John & Abigail Adams First Aired: January 23, 2006 First Aired: January 23, 2006“John & Abigail Adams,” an engrossing portrait of the second U.S. president and first lady, costars Simon Russell Beale and Linda Emond. Included: the friendship (and enmity) between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (James Barbour), who both died on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence; the Adamses' “great love story”; their bouts with depression; his troubled presidency. Interspersed are comments from historians. David Ogden Stiers narrates. Cast: David Ogden Stiers...Narrator (voice) Simon Russell Beale...John Adams Linda Emond...Abigail Adams James Barbour...Thomas Jefferson