American Playhouse (1982)
American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
📺 Seasons & Episodes
Season 125 episodes
1. The Shady Hill Kidnapping
⏱ 60 minJohn Cheever's comedy of a supposedly kidnapped 5-year-old boy. At first the police aren't interested until a ransom note is discovered. Then the town goes into action to support the finding of Toby.
2. King of America
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3. Seguin
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
4. Who Am I This Time?
⏱ 60 minFrom a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on screen. Susan Sarandon is new in town, a lonely itenerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Walken's Stanley when the theater group does A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the problem, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.
5. Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
6. Come Along With Me
⏱ 60 minMabel Lederer is a recently widowed woman who sells all her belongings and leaves her home to start a new life. Mabel believes she has powers to see into the future and to conduct seances. She changes her name to 'Angela Motorman' and moves into a boarding house where she interacts with the strange residents.
7. For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
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8. Echoes and Silences
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
9. Fifth of July
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
10. The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
⏱ 60 minThe Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters is a 1982 comedy drama TV movie written by Jean Shepherd and directed by Richard Bartlett.
11. Pilgrim Farewell
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12. Northern Lights
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
13. Medal of Honor Rag
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
14. Working
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
15. Weekend
⏱ 60 minWeekend is a TV episode of American Playhouse directed by Paul Bogart.
16. Private Contentment
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
17. My Palikari
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
18. Oppenheimer (1)
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19. Oppenheimer (2)
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20. Oppenheimer (3)
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21. Oppenheimer (4)
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
22. Oppenheimer (5)
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
23. Oppenheimer (6)
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
24. Oppenheimer (7)
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
25. The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
Season 212 episodes
1. The Skin of Our Teeth
⏱ 60 minThe Skin of Our Teeth is the 1983 biographical drama TV episode of American Playhouse TV Series.
2. Miss Lonelyhearts
⏱ 60 minA young Depression-era reporter is assigned to write his newspaper's advice column on the insistence of his mocking editor. Unhappy in the demeaning assignment, he begins to take an interest in one of the readers sending letters.
3. Family Business
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4. Keeping On
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
5. The File on Jill Hatch (1)
⏱ 60 minPart 1 of 3: The story deals with the marriage of a black American soldier and a white British woman. Spanning four decades and two decades with drama also introduces their rebellious daughter, Jill, who eventually becomes civil rights activist. Beginning in the war-torn England of the 1940 where the couple meet and fall in love.
6. The File on Jill Hatch (2)
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7. The File on Jill Hatch (3)
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
8. For Us, the Living
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
9. Verse Person Singular
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
10. Until She Talks
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
11. Wings
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
12. The Rothko Conspiracy
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
Season 317 episodes
1. The Ghostwriter
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
2. Pudd'nhead Wilson
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
3. True West
⏱ 60 minA videotaped stage performance of Sam Shepard's play
4. Nothing But a Man
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
5. Popular Neurotics
⏱ 60 minTwo young urban professionals, each with their own neuroses, make the fatal mistake one day of meeting by chance at an automatic bank teller machine and making a date for the movies.
6. The Cafeteria
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7. Refuge
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8. The Gin Game
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
9. Haunted
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
10. The Killing Floor
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
11. Heartland
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
12. City News
⏱ 60 minCity News is an independent, American comedy film, written and directed by David Fishelson and Zoe Zinman in New York City in 1983, which was nationally broadcast on PBS in 1984, exhibited theatrically in the U.S. and Canada in 1983, and selected for 12 international film festivals in 1983-4.
13. Hughie
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
14. Concealed Enemies (1)
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
15. Concealed Enemies (2)
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
16. Concealed Enemies (3)
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
17. Concealed Enemies (4)
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Season 422 episodes
1. Testament
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2. A Matter of Principle
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3. Solomon Northup's Odyssey
⏱ 60 minSolomon Northup's Odyssey, reissued as Half Slave, Half Free, is a 1984 American television film based on the autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The film, which aired on PBS, was directed by Gordon Parks with Avery Brooks starring as the titular character. It was the second film to be funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, following Denmark Vesey's Rebellion in 1982. Parks returned to direct the film after years of absence. He chose to work in the Deep South and to collaborate with a crew of mixed races. The film first aired on PBS on December 10, 1984 and as part of PBS's American Playhouse anthology television series in the following year. It was released on video under the title Half Slave, Half Free.
4. Tomorrow
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5. Go Tell It On the Mountain
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
6. Noon Wine
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
7. The Joy That Kills
⏱ 60 minThe Joy that Kills is a 1984 television film adaptation of Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." It was directed by Tina Rathborne and co-written by Rathbone and Nancy Dyer. It was released in 1984 as a part of the PBS series American Playhouse.
8. Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
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9. The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski
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10. Some Men Need Help
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11. Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
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12. Breakfast with Les and Bess
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13. Nightsongs
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14. Under the Biltmore Clock
⏱ —F. Scott Fitzgerald's comedy of a stylish young flapper (Sean Young) who chooses a husband (Lenny Von Dohlen), but finds she can't compete with his family.
15. Displaced Person
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16. The Europeans
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17. El Norte
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18. Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part I
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19. Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part II
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20. Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part III
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21. Paper Angels
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22. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Season 519 episodes
1. The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
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2. The Roommate
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3. Valentine's Revenge
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part I
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part II
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
6. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part III
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part IV
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
8. Tell Me a Riddle
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
9. The Little Sister
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
10. The House of Ramon Iglesia
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
11. A Flash of Green
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
12. Damien
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
13. Rocket to the Moon
⏱ 60 minIn 1938 New York, a dentist finds his business failing and his marriage on the rocks. He is a hen-pecked husband with little drive left for success. That is, until he starts getting involved with his lively assistant, a free spirit with a penchant for tall tales and a hidden loneliness.
14. A Case of Libel
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15. Painting Churches
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16. Roanoak (1)
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17. Roanoak (2)
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18. Roanoak (3)
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19. Sunday in the Park with George
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Season 617 episodes
1. All My Sons
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2. The Lawrenceville Stories 1: The Prodigious Hickey
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3. The Wide Net
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4. Smooth Talk
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5. A Mistaken Charity
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
6. Eleanor: In Her Own Words
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
7. The Innocents Abroad
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
8. Story of a Marriage (1)
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9. Story of a Marriage (2)
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10. Story of a Marriage (3)
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11. A Case of Libel
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12. Charley's Aunt
⏱ 60 minCharley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney. - Written by Ed
13. Gal Young 'Un
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
14. The House of Blue Leaves
⏱ 60 minZoo attendant Artie Shaughnessy dreams of being a successful songwriter. What his mistress, Bunny Flingus, who lives downstairs from his Queens apartment won't tell him -- and what his insane wife, Bananas, tries to get through to him -- is that Artie's songs stink. On Oct. 4, 1965, the day Pope Paul visits New York City, Bunny convinces Artie to call his old school buddy Billy Einhorn, a famous film director from Los Angeles, to finagle a job writing music for Billy's movies. (After all, Bunny feels that with the Pope here, there must be "miracles in the air.") But ...
15. Blue Window
⏱ 60 minIn an affluent area of downtown New York City, a Sunday evening dinner party is taking place. Hosted by Libby, an insecure thirty-something widow who lost her husband in an unfortunate accident, her guest of honor is downstairs neighbor Alice, a successful novelist, and Alice's lesbian lover, Boo, a family therapist. The other guests are Griever, Libby's best friend from group therapy; Norbert, Libby's gentle skydiving instructor; Tom, an old high-school boyfriend of Libby's now working as a jazz musician and composer, and Emily, Tom's current live-in girlfriend.
16. Dottie
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
17. Waiting for the Moon
⏱ 60 minFictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.
Season 716 episodes
1. Strange Interlude: Part 1
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2. Strange Interlude: Part 2
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3. Strange Interlude: Part 3
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4. The Lawrenceville Stories 2: The Return of Hickey
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5. Lemon Sky
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6. The Revolt of Mother
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7. Pigeon Feathers
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8. Billy Galvin
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9. A Flash of Green
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10. Journey Into Genius
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11. Suspicion
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12. The Trial of Bernhard Goetz
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13. The Land of Little Rain
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14. I Never Sang for My Father
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15. Native Son
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16. The Big Knife
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Season 816 episodes
1. A Raisin in the Sun
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2. Ask Me Again
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3. Stacking
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4. My American Cousin
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5. Love and Other Sorrows
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6. Stand and Deliver
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7. The Silence at Bethany
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8. The Lawrenceville Stories 3: The Beginning of the Firm
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9. Life Under Water
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10. The Diaries of Adam and Eve
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11. The Meeting
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12. A Walk in the Woods
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13. Big Time
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14. The Thin Blue Line
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15. Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
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16. Imagining America
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Season 96 episodes
Season 106 episodes
Season 1110 episodes
1. Fool's Fire
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2. Tales from Hollywood
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3. Tru
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4. Tru
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5. Fires in the Mirror
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6. In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway
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7. La Carpa
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8. Porgy and Bess
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9. Tales of the City
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10. Hallelujah
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Season 125 episodes
Season 136 episodes
1. The Making of Angels and Insects
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2. Fires in the Mirror
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3. Blown Sideways Through Life
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4. Drawn from Memory
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5. The Beans of Egypt, Maine
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6. Passion
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