Episode list

Helen Hayes recreates some of her most famous stage roles, such as Mary Stuart in "Mary of Scotland", Queen Victoria in "Victoria Regina", Nora Melody in "A Touch of the Poet" and Grandma in "The American Dream".

A religious devout woman falls in love with a married man.

Two short plays are featured in this episode. In the first, a widow struggles to keep her family from splintering; in the second, a secretary who is sent to a lonely apartment to take her boss's dictation from a tape recording is terrified by what she encounters.

This episode features two wildly different segments. In the first, ten short plays exposing the devastating effects of pollution are performed, including "The Beautiful Fish" about a couple's unhappy experience fishing in the Hudson River; "Play for Trees" concerning two pine trees about to be chopped down for Christmas and "Kissing Sweet" about industrial pollution. In the second segment Gwen Verdon and Cyril Ritchard read pieces written by Lewis Carroll, including a portion of "Alice in Wonderland".

Two short Tennessee Williams plays: 'Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen' and 'I Can't Imagine Tomorrow.'

The last days of Christ, from the raising of Lazarus from the dead through the Last Supper, his trail before Pilate, crucifixion and resurrection.

The story of the Wright Brothers' personal lives, and their labors in designing, building and testing airplanes.