1982

S3.E1 ∙ The Ghost Writer

Mon, Jan 16, 1984

Nathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff, an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes. Also staying in the Lonoff home is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past whom the narrator apparently comes to suspect of being Anne Frank, living in the United States anonymously, having survived the Holocaust.

7 /10

S3.E2 ∙ Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mon, Jan 23, 1984

A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.

7.1 /10

S3.E3 ∙ True West

Mon, Jan 30, 1984

A videotaped stage performance of Sam Shepard's play

8.5 /10

S3.E4 ∙ Nothing But a Man

Mon, Feb 06, 1984

0 /10

S3.E5 ∙ Popular Neurotics

Mon, Feb 13, 1984

Lynne and Murray meet by happenstance while in line at an automated teller machine and begin an on-again, off-again relationship in which they struggle to transcend modern-day neuroses concerning courtship.

8.8 /10

S3.E6 ∙ The Cafeteria

Mon, Feb 20, 1984

Esther, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.

8.5 /10

S3.E7 ∙ Refuge

Mon, Feb 27, 1984

On a remote island off the coast of Maine four people attempt to relax but the isolated refuge fails to protect them from their own insecurities and jealousies.

0 /10

S3.E8 ∙ The Gin Game

Mon, Mar 05, 1984

0 /10

S3.E9 ∙ Haunted

Mon, Mar 19, 1984

6.9 /10

S3.E10 ∙ The Killing Floor

Mon, Apr 09, 1984

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement. He becomes prominent as a leader of fellow African-Americans in the union, though many, including his best friend, view him as a sell-out.

7.4 /10

S3.E11 ∙ Heartland

Mon, Apr 16, 1984

Miraculous occurrences happen to people throughout the world every day. God's Miracles presents personal experiences as well as unvarnished scientific and factual evidence, allowing the viewer to draw their own conclusions as to whether it is possible for God to grant miracles.

0 /10

S3.E12 ∙ City News

Fri, Mar 18, 1983

The struggles of Tom Domino, publisher and editor of a seemingly doomed, underground newspaper in New York City's East Village are chronicled in this dark comedy by Zoe Zinman.

6.6 /10

S3.E13 ∙ Hughie

Mon, Apr 30, 1984

Set in the lobby of a small hotel in midtown New York. A small-time hustler named Erie Smith talks to the hotel's new night clerk Charlie Hughes, lamenting how Smith's luck has gone bad since the death of Hughie, Hughes' predecessor.

9.4 /10

S3.E14 ∙ Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion

Sun, May 06, 1984

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

8.5 /10