1982

S2.E1 ∙ The Skin of Our Teeth

Mon, Jan 17, 1983

Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play about mankind's triumph over chaos, which wildly altered dramatic conventions in freely shifting between modern-day New Jersey and the ice age - the Antrobus family pets being dinosaurs; and having characters speaking directly to the audience and criticizing the way their own dialogue was written.

8 /10

S2.E2 ∙ Miss Lonelyhearts

Mon, Jan 24, 1983

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.

6.8 /10

S2.E3 ∙ Family Business

Mon, Jan 31, 1983

Isaiah Stern is a wealthy, but dying, toy manufacturer. Once more Stern has gathered together his grown sons to once more revise his will. Three of the four boys are used to these idiosyncratic changes, and have come to accept them: the fourth son , a married psychologist, is heavily in debt and doesn't like his thin share of the pie, which sparks a confrontation. The remaining sons, are a bachelor who runs the family store, an indecisive sort who still lives at home, and daddy's favorite, a closet homosexual.

8.7 /10

S2.E4 ∙ Keeping On

Mon, Feb 07, 1983

A low-key 90-minute drama about unionizing a small southern mill town, a process which affects the whole town, not only the textile workers.

5.8 /10

S2.E5 ∙ The Files on Jill Hatch: Part I

Mon, Feb 14, 1983

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 activist. Beginning in the war-torn England of the 1940 where the couple meet and fall in love.

8.9 /10

S2.E6 ∙ The Files on Jill Hatch: Part II

Mon, Feb 21, 1983

0 /10

S2.E7 ∙ The Files on Jill Hatch: Part III

Mon, Feb 28, 1983

0 /10

S2.E8 ∙ For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story

Mon, Mar 21, 1983

Based on the life and times of NAACP field secretary and Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers, assassinated in 1963.

7.3 /10

S2.E9 ∙ Verse Person Singular

Mon, Mar 28, 1983

Actor Richard Kiley takes on the personae of thirteen different characters as he reads his favorite poems written in the first-person.

0 /10

S2.E10 ∙ Until She Talks

Mon, Apr 04, 1983

The story of a young woman who is imprisoned for refusing to testify before a grand jury; the program uses dialogue from courtroom transcripts and is based on the experiences of individuals jailed for their refusal to testify.

0 /10

S2.E11 ∙ Wings

Mon, Apr 25, 1983

Former aviatrix Emily Stilson suffers a stroke and is plunged into a world of disorientation and grief. Memories flood in between painful attempts to re-learn the basic functions of everyday life.

8 /10