Replace text below pictures with “A 65-year-old father sits down over lime rickeys to regale his young adult son with fantastical tales from another time. “Wild women” in wooden pits! Eccentric uncles in insane asylums! Cattle-stealing revolutionaries! Cider-drunk real estate agents! Stag parties at the White House! All of these adventures, and so many more, explode across the screen with frisky adrenaline and good humor. This is the foundation of “MY ADVENTURES AS AN ILLUSTRATOR,” our television series adaptation of Norman Rockwell’s enchantingly clever autobiography. It’s a bit of a Big Fish set-up... writ TRUE.

The son is TOM ROCKWELL, a fledgling author who will go on to write the children’s bestseller “How To Eat Fried Worms.” And the father spinning his life story for the sake of penning his autobiography... well, that’s NORMAN ROCKWELL himself.

His Dickens meets Cagney boyhood in New York, his painfully awkward days as an apprentice artist, his life-changing visit to the Saturday Evening Post, his troubled first marriage, his high-society escapades abroad, his transformative move to rural Vermont, his patriotic role as a “war hero with a brush” in WWII, his undervalued place in the civil rights movement -- all recounted with Norman’s signature blend of razor-sharp perception, child-like wonder, droll wit... and unforgettably enchanting IMAGERY.