COLLECTION · Series · 1982
American Playhouse
American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
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* 6.6 (7)ComedyDramaUnited States
Countries
United States
Studios
PBS
Runtime
60 min/ep
Release
12/01/1982
Score
6.6 / 10 (7)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
25 episodes · 1982
Episode 1. The Shady Hill Kidnapping
1982-01-12 · 60 min
John 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.
Episode 2. King of America
1982-01-19 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. Seguin
1982-01-26 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. Who Am I This Time?
1982-02-02 · 60 min
From 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,…
Episode 5. Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine
1982-02-09 · 60 min
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Episode 6. Come Along With Me
1982-02-16 · 60 min
Mabel 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…
Episode 7. For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
1982-02-23 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 8. Echoes and Silences
1982-03-02 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 9. Fifth of July
1982-03-09 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 10. The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
1982-03-16 · 60 min
The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters is a 1982 comedy drama TV movie written by Jean Shepherd and directed by Richard Bartlett.
Episode 11. Pilgrim Farewell
1982-03-23 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 12. Northern Lights
1982-03-30 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 13. Medal of Honor Rag
1982-04-06 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 14. Working
1982-04-13 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 15. Weekend
1982-04-20 · 60 min
Weekend is a TV episode of American Playhouse directed by Paul Bogart.
Episode 16. Private Contentment
1982-04-27 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 17. My Palikari
1982-05-04 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 18. Oppenheimer (1)
1982-05-11 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 19. Oppenheimer (2)
1982-05-18 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 20. Oppenheimer (3)
1982-05-25 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 21. Oppenheimer (4)
1982-06-01 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 22. Oppenheimer (5)
1982-06-08 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 23. Oppenheimer (6)
1982-06-15 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 24. Oppenheimer (7)
1982-06-22 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 25. The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1982-06-29 · 60 min
No synopsis
Season 2
12 episodes · 1983
Episode 1. The Skin of Our Teeth
1983-01-18 · 60 min
The Skin of Our Teeth is the 1983 biographical drama TV episode of American Playhouse TV Series.
Episode 2. Miss Lonelyhearts
1983-01-25 · 60 min
A 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.
Episode 3. Family Business
1983-02-01 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. Keeping On
1983-02-08 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 5. The File on Jill Hatch (1)
1983-02-15 · 60 min
Part 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…
Episode 6. The File on Jill Hatch (2)
1983-02-22 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 7. The File on Jill Hatch (3)
1983-03-01 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 8. For Us, the Living
1983-03-22 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 9. Verse Person Singular
1983-03-29 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 10. Until She Talks
1983-04-05 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 11. Wings
1983-04-26 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 12. The Rothko Conspiracy
1983-05-03 · 60 min
No synopsis
Season 3
17 episodes · 1984
Episode 1. The Ghostwriter
1984-01-17 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 2. Pudd'nhead Wilson
1984-01-24 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. True West
1984-01-31 · 60 min
A videotaped stage performance of Sam Shepard's play
Episode 4. Nothing But a Man
1984-02-07 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 5. Popular Neurotics
1984-02-14 · 60 min
Two 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.
Episode 6. The Cafeteria
1984-02-21 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 7. Refuge
1984-02-28
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Episode 8. The Gin Game
1984-03-06 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 9. Haunted
1984-03-20 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 10. The Killing Floor
1984-04-10 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 11. Heartland
1984-04-17 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 12. City News
1984-04-24 · 60 min
City 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…
Episode 13. Hughie
1984-05-01 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 14. Concealed Enemies (1)
1984-05-07 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 15. Concealed Enemies (2)
1984-05-08 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 16. Concealed Enemies (3)
1984-05-09 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 17. Concealed Enemies (4)
1984-05-09
No synopsis
Season 4
22 episodes · 1984
Episode 1. Testament
1984-11-26 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 2. A Matter of Principle
1984-12-03 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. Solomon Northup's Odyssey
1984-12-10 · 60 min
Solomon 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…
Episode 4. Tomorrow
1984-12-17 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 5. Go Tell It On the Mountain
1985-01-14 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 6. Noon Wine
1985-01-21 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 7. The Joy That Kills
1985-01-28 · 60 min
The 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…
Episode 8. Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
1985-02-04
No synopsis
Episode 9. The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski
1985-02-11
No synopsis
Episode 10. Some Men Need Help
1985-02-18
No synopsis
Episode 11. Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985-02-25
No synopsis
Episode 12. Breakfast with Les and Bess
1985-03-11
No synopsis
Episode 13. Nightsongs
1985-04-15
No synopsis
Episode 14. Under the Biltmore Clock
1985-04-25
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.
Episode 15. Displaced Person
1985-05-06
No synopsis
Episode 16. The Europeans
1985-05-15
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Episode 17. El Norte
1985-05-20
No synopsis
Episode 18. Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part I
1985-05-27
No synopsis
Episode 19. Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part II
1985-06-03
No synopsis
Episode 20. Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part III
1985-06-10
No synopsis
Episode 21. Paper Angels
1985-06-15
No synopsis
Episode 22. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1985-06-24
No synopsis
Season 5
19 episodes · 1986
Episode 1. The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
1986-01-20 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 2. The Roommate
1986-01-27 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. Valentine's Revenge
1986-02-03 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part I
1986-02-10 · 60 min
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Episode 5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part II
1986-02-17 · 60 min
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Episode 6. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part III
1986-02-24 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part IV
1986-03-03 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 8. Tell Me a Riddle
1986-03-17 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 9. The Little Sister
1986-04-07 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 10. The House of Ramon Iglesia
1986-04-14 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 11. A Flash of Green
1986-04-21 · 60 min
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Episode 12. Damien
1986-04-28 · 60 min
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Episode 13. Rocket to the Moon
1986-05-05 · 60 min
In 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…
Episode 14. A Case of Libel
1986-05-12
No synopsis
Episode 15. Painting Churches
1986-05-19
No synopsis
Episode 16. Roanoak (1)
1986-05-26
No synopsis
Episode 17. Roanoak (2)
1986-06-02
No synopsis
Episode 18. Roanoak (3)
1986-06-09
No synopsis
Episode 19. Sunday in the Park with George
1986-06-16
No synopsis
Season 6
17 episodes · 1987
Episode 1. All My Sons
1987-01-19 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 2. The Lawrenceville Stories 1: The Prodigious Hickey
1987-01-26 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. The Wide Net
1987-02-02 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. Smooth Talk
1987-02-09
No synopsis
Episode 5. A Mistaken Charity
1987-02-16 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 6. Eleanor: In Her Own Words
1987-03-09 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 7. The Innocents Abroad
1987-03-23 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 8. Story of a Marriage (1)
1987-04-06
No synopsis
Episode 9. Story of a Marriage (2)
1987-04-13
No synopsis
Episode 10. Story of a Marriage (3)
1987-04-13
No synopsis
Episode 11. A Case of Libel
1987-05-04
No synopsis
Episode 12. Charley's Aunt
1987-05-11 · 60 min
Charley 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…
Episode 13. Gal Young 'Un
1987-05-18 · 60 min
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Episode 14. The House of Blue Leaves
1987-05-25 · 60 min
Zoo 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 --…
Episode 15. Blue Window
1987-06-01 · 60 min
In 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…
Episode 16. Dottie
1987-06-08 · 60 min
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Episode 17. Waiting for the Moon
1987-06-15 · 60 min
Fictionalized 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 7
16 episodes · 1988
Episode 1. Strange Interlude: Part 1
1988-01-13
No synopsis
Episode 2. Strange Interlude: Part 2
1988-01-19
No synopsis
Episode 3. Strange Interlude: Part 3
1988-01-20
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Lawrenceville Stories 2: The Return of Hickey
1988-02-03
No synopsis
Episode 5. Lemon Sky
1988-02-10
No synopsis
Episode 6. The Revolt of Mother
1988-02-17
No synopsis
Episode 7. Pigeon Feathers
1988-02-17
No synopsis
Episode 8. Billy Galvin
1988-02-24
No synopsis
Episode 9. A Flash of Green
1988-03-23
No synopsis
Episode 10. Journey Into Genius
1988-04-06
No synopsis
Episode 11. Suspicion
1988-04-13
No synopsis
Episode 12. The Trial of Bernhard Goetz
1988-05-11
No synopsis
Episode 13. The Land of Little Rain
1988-06-01
No synopsis
Episode 14. I Never Sang for My Father
1988-06-15
No synopsis
Episode 15. Native Son
1988-06-29
No synopsis
Episode 16. The Big Knife
1988-07-27
No synopsis
Season 8
16 episodes · 1989
Episode 1. A Raisin in the Sun
1989-02-01
No synopsis
Episode 2. Ask Me Again
1989-02-08
No synopsis
Episode 3. Stacking
1989-02-15
No synopsis
Episode 4. My American Cousin
1989-02-22
No synopsis
Episode 5. Love and Other Sorrows
1989-03-01
No synopsis
Episode 6. Stand and Deliver
1989-03-15
No synopsis
Episode 7. The Silence at Bethany
1989-03-22
No synopsis
Episode 8. The Lawrenceville Stories 3: The Beginning of the Firm
1989-04-05
No synopsis
Episode 9. Life Under Water
1989-04-12
No synopsis
Episode 10. The Diaries of Adam and Eve
1989-04-26
No synopsis
Episode 11. The Meeting
1989-05-03
No synopsis
Episode 12. A Walk in the Woods
1989-05-10
No synopsis
Episode 13. Big Time
1989-05-17
No synopsis
Episode 14. The Thin Blue Line
1989-05-24
No synopsis
Episode 15. Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
1989-05-31
No synopsis
Episode 16. Imagining America
1989-06-07 · 60 min
No synopsis
Season 9
6 episodes · 1990
Episode 1. Sensibility and Sense
1990-01-24
No synopsis
Episode 2. Women & Wallace
1990-01-31
No synopsis
Episode 3. Zora Is My Name!
1990-02-14
No synopsis
Episode 4. Andre's Mother
1990-03-07 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 5. Bloodhounds of Broadway
1990-05-23
No synopsis
Episode 6. Hyde in Hollywood
1990-07-06
No synopsis
Season 10
6 episodes · 1991
Episode 1. Into the Woods
1991-03-15
No synopsis
Episode 2. The Grapes of Wrath
1991-03-22
No synopsis
Episode 3. Three Hotels
1991-03-29
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Sunset Gang
1991-04-05
No synopsis
Episode 5. Hot Summer Winds
1991-05-22
No synopsis
Episode 6. The Hollow Boy
1991-06-12 · 55 min
A lonely German-American boy, whose bigoted parents want him to constantly work in their bakery, finds solace in a close-knit, musically-gifted Jewish-American family in the apartment across from his.
Season 11
10 episodes · 1992
Episode 1. Fool's Fire
1992-03-25
No synopsis
Episode 2. Tales from Hollywood
1992-10-19
No synopsis
Episode 3. Tru
1992-11-23
No synopsis
Episode 4. Tru
1993-01-17
No synopsis
Episode 5. Fires in the Mirror
1993-04-28
No synopsis
Episode 6. In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway
1993-06-11
No synopsis
Episode 7. La Carpa
1993-06-16
No synopsis
Episode 8. Porgy and Bess
1993-10-06
No synopsis
Episode 9. Tales of the City
1993-11-15
No synopsis
Episode 10. Hallelujah
1993-12-22
No synopsis
Season 12
5 episodes · 1994
Episode 1. Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
1994-01-10
No synopsis
Episode 2. The Sunset Gang
1994-03-21
No synopsis
Episode 3. Long Shadow
1994-08-26
No synopsis
Episode 4. Break of Dawn
1994-09-09
No synopsis
Episode 5. La Carpa
1994-09-23
No synopsis
Season 13
6 episodes · 1995
Episode 1. The Making of Angels and Insects
1995-01-02
No synopsis
Episode 2. Fires in the Mirror
1995-02-03
No synopsis
Episode 3. Blown Sideways Through Life
1995-07-19
No synopsis
Episode 4. Drawn from Memory
1995-10-30
No synopsis
Episode 5. The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1996-08-11
No synopsis
Episode 6. Passion
1996-09-29
No synopsis
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