• 1982
  • 1h 1m
American Playhouse

Summary Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s. View more details

  • 1982
  • 1h 1m

American Playhouse

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Edward Herrmann Sada Thompson Jeffrey DeMunn Elizabeth Franz

All cast & crew

7.3

Details

Genres : Comedy Sci-Fi Drama Romance

Release date : Jan 11, 1982

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Summary Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Sci-Fi Drama Romance

Release date : Jan 11, 1982

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

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American Playhouse (1980) Danielle Ferland in Into the Woods (1991) Suspicion (1987) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1986) American Playhouse The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982) The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982) Haunted (1984) Haunted (1984) Haunted (1984) Haunted (1984) Haunted (1984) Haunted (1984)

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Episode 1 • Jan 11, 1982
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
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 • Jan 18, 1982
King of America
Hot-tempered Greek immigrant Andreas arrives in America in 1915. He finds work on a railroad, but soon gives his corrupt foreman Mekakis a savage beating. Making his way west across the country, Andreas eventually comes upon another railroad looking for workers. It turns out Mekakis has gone westward, too. He offers Andreas the only job suitable for him, a "moutain mover" on the suicide squad: He must grapple down the face of a cliff, position sticks of dynamite and then climb back up again before the lit fuses reach the explosive.
Episode 3 • Jan 25, 1982
Seguin
Seguin was not at the Alamo. All defender at the Alamo were killed. Seguin lived in go become the vice president under President Sam Houston of the Republic of Texas.
Episode 4 • Feb 01, 1982
Who Am I This Time?
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 stage. Susan Sarandon is new in town, a lonely itinerant 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 growing affection between Helene and Stanley, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.
Episode 5 • Feb 08, 1982
Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine
The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens' makes a magical and lasting change in the lives of an imaginative 12-year-old boy and a loving young woman.
Episode 6 • Feb 15, 1982
Come Along with Me
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 moves into a boarding house where she interacts with the strange residents.
Episode 7 • Feb 22, 1982
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
A unique award-winning tale of the African-American woman's journey in America.
Episode 8 • Mar 01, 1982
Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
"Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and to play the young Sandburg in short dramatic sequences. In search of Sandburg, Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, Illinois speaking with close friends and family of the writer. Through a remarkable recently discovered trove of period photographs of Galesburg, the small-town America of Sandburg's childhood - the horse carriages, the ice-man delivering ice, a Fourth of July celebration - is revived in vivid detail." (Perry Miller Adato website)
Episode 9 • Mar 08, 1982
Fifth of July
Ken Talley is 32, strong, goodlooking and a Vietnam vet with both legs shot off seven years earlier. He is somewhat cynical. His lover Jed is bigger and stronger, a gardner, a good listener. On Independence Day 1977 Ken's home in Lebanon Missouri is visted by the others. Much of their past relationships, pre- and post-Vietnam, must be pulled up and examined before any of them can decide their future.
Episode 10 • Mar 15, 1982
The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
Matt Dillon plays a young Jean Shepherd (author and narrator of A Christmas Story). Through Matt, Shep tells several humorous stories about his teen years in an Indiana steel town.
Episode 11 • Mar 22, 1982
Pilgrim, Farewell
A woman suffering from terminal cancer determines to resolve several relationships in her life, especially with her daughter.
Episode 12 • Mar 29, 1982
Northern Lights
On a North Dakota wheat farm at the turn of the 20th century, Ray Sorenson builds his world around childhood sweetheart Inga. But then Ray sees his plans come apart when the bank forecloses on his family's farm.
Episode 13 • Apr 05, 1982
Medal of Honor Rag
A Medal of Honor-winning Vietnam veteran has difficulty readjusting to civilian life, and turns to a psychiatrist for help when he finds himself descending to robbery.
Episode 14 • Apr 12, 1982
Working
A musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's book celebrating the lives of everyday working-class people.
Episode 15 • Apr 19, 1982
Weekend
Episode 16 • Apr 26, 1982
Private Contentment
A young soldier goes home to attend his mother's funeral just before being shipped out to serve in World War II.
Episode 17 • May 03, 1982
My Palikari
A middle-aged Greek immigrant visits his native village, with his American-born son in tow. The older finds that the place he remembered as paradise on earth now seems like a desolate wasteland, while the son, who has mede this journey reluctantly, falls in love with his ancestral homeland.
Episode 18 • May 10, 1982
Oppenheimer: Part I
Episode 19 • May 17, 1982
Oppenheimer: Part II
Episode 20 • May 24, 1982
Oppenheimer: Part III
Episode 21 • May 31, 1982
Oppenheimer: Part IV
Episode 22 • Jun 07, 1982
Oppenheimer: Part V
Episode 23 • Jun 14, 1982
Oppenheimer: Part VI
Episode 24 • Jun 21, 1982
Oppenheimer: Part VII
Episode 25 • Jun 28, 1982
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
The retelling of an incident in Gonzales, Texas in 1901 revolving around a stolen horse, mistaken identity and a killing. An unusual story of the all too usual exploitation of the powerless in Texas history.
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