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American Playhouse — Storyline

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Cast & Crew

American Playhouse — Series Details

American Playhouse — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: The Shady Hill Kidnapping (1982-01-12) — John Cheever's comedy of a supposedly kidnapped five-year-old boy. At first, the police aren't interested until a ransom note is discovered. Then the town goes into action to suppo
• E2: King of America (1982-01-19) — Hot-tempered Greek immigrant Andreas arrives in 1915 America, and finds work on a railroad. However, after giving his corrupt foreman Mekakis a savage beating, Andreas flees and ma
• E3: Seguin (1982-01-26) — In 19th-century Texas, soldier Juan Nepomuceno Seguin fought at the Alamo and became a highly respected politician to insure better living conditions for his people. Frustration ar
• E4: Who Am I This Time? (1982-02-02) — Shy hardware store employee Harry Nash decides to step out of his comfort zone, and takes part in a local amateur theatre troupe, where he becomes the character he plays—literally.
• E5: Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine (1982-02-09) — 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 w
• E6: Come Along with Me (1982-02-16) — Recently widowed Mabel Lederer sells all her belongings and leaves home to start a new life. Mabel believes she has powers to see into the future and to conduct seances. She change
• E7: For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (1982-02-23) — Nameless women identified by color (e.g., Lady in Red, Lady in Blue) share their experiences with racism, sexism, abuse, and abandonment, ultimately finding strength and sisterhood
• E8: Echoes and Silences (1982-03-02) — In search of Carl Sandburg, actor John Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, IL, speaking with close friends and family. Through a remarkable recently discovered tro
• E9: Fifth of July (1982-03-09) — Ken Talley is 32, strong, goodlooking and a Vietnam vet with both legs shot off seven years earlier. His lover Jed is bigger and stronger, a gardner, a good listener. On Independen
• E10: The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters (1982-03-16) — Teenage Ralph recounts the Fourth of July and similar chaoses with his family and friends. Based on the writings of Jean Shepherd.
• E11: Pilgrim, Farewell (1982-03-23) — A woman suffering from terminal cancer determines to resolve several relationships in her life, especially with her daughter.
• E12: Northern Lights (1982-03-30) — On a North Dakota wheat farm at the turn of the 20th century, Ray Sorenson builds his world around childhood sweetheart Inga. Then Ray sees his plans come apart when the bank forec
• E13: Medal of Honor Rag (1982-04-06) — A Medal of Honor-winning Vietnam vet has difficulty readjusting to civilian life, and turns to a psychiatrist for help when he finds himself descending to robbery.
• E14: Working (1982-04-13) — A musical following American workers from diverse backgrounds, from gravediggers to studio heads, exploring their feelings, frustrations, and search for meaning in their jobs.
• E15: Weekend (1982-04-20) — A drifting, affluent couple spend a weekend at their country home, where the husband cheats on his complacent wife as they host guests for their son's first birthday.
• E16: Private Contentment (1982-04-27) — A young soldier attends his mother's funeral just before he's shipped out to serve in World War II.
• E17: My Palikari (1982-05-04) — A middle-aged Greek immigrant visits his native village, with his American-born son in tow. The elder finds that the place he remembered as paradise on Earth now seems like a desol
• E18: Oppenheimer (1) (1982-05-11) — 1938: Robert Oppenheimer meets and decides to marry the hard-drinking, much-divorced Kitty, although his friends and relatives dislike her.
• E19: Oppenheimer (2) (1982-05-18) — 1942: America is at war. Now in charge of the top-secret Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer's left-wing politics mean that he's constantly under surveillance by the FBI and others.
• E20: Oppenheimer (3) (1982-05-25) — 1943: Oppenheimer is appointed director of Los Alamos, but his past Communist associations alert the FBI. Meanwhile, his extramarital relationship with the neurotic Jean Tatlock co
• E21: Oppenheimer (4) (1982-06-01) — Summer 1944: With the death of President Roosevelt, the future of the Manhattan Project seems doubtful. Oppenheimer finds himself more and more at loggerheads with Teller.
• E22: Oppenheimer (5) (1982-06-08) — May 1945: The European war is over but the conflict with Japan rages on. Oppenheimer discusses the almost completed atomic bomb with the Secretary of War. However, his colleagues h
• E23: Oppenheimer (6) (1982-06-15) — 1949: A few years after the war, Oppenheimer finds himself regarded as a security risk, and must face the HUAC committee.
• E24: Oppenheimer (7) (1982-06-22) — December 1953: Oppenheimer's examination by the committee proves disastrous and his career with the AEC is finished, whilst that of his rival Teller flourishes.
• E25: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982-06-29) — In 1901, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez is forced on the run from Texas Rangers, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days following a heated misunderstanding leads

Season 2

• E1: The Skin of Our Teeth (1983-01-18) — The Antrobus family and their housekeeper Lilly Sabina face various global disasters, including a new ice age, a great flood, and a devastating war.
• E2: Miss Lonelyhearts (1983-01-25) — 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 a
• E3: Family Business (1983-02-01) — Isaiah Stern is a wealthy, but dying, toy manufacturer. Once more, Stern has gathered his grown sons to revise his will. Three of the four are used to these idiosyncratic changes,
• E4: Keeping On (1983-02-08) — A low-key drama exploring the struggles of an impoverished sharecropping family in the rural South with themes of Southern identity, morality, and family.
• E5: The File on Jill Hatch (1) (1983-02-15) — A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.
• E6: The File on Jill Hatch (2) (1983-02-22) — A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.
• E7: The File on Jill Hatch (3) (1983-03-01) — A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.
• E8: For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983-03-22) — During the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi, Medgar Evers rose from insurance agent to one of the most integral activists of the era. From boycotting white merchants in the mid
• E9: Verse Person Singular (1983-03-29) — Actor Richard Kiley takes on the personae of thirteen different characters as he reads his favorite poems written in the first-person.
• E10: Until She Talks (1983-04-05) — The story of a young woman imprisoned for declining to testify before a grand jury; comprised from real courtroom transcripts and based on the experiences of individuals jailed for
• E11: Wings (1983-04-26) — 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 o
• E12: The Rothko Conspiracy (1983-05-03) — A dramatization of the fight over the estate of artist Mark Rothko, who killed himself in 1970.

Season 3

• E1: The Ghost Writer (1984-01-17) — Aspiring writer Nathan Zuckerman visits the secluded home of his literary idol, E.I. Lonoff. While there, Zuckerman becomes entangled in the author's complex domestic life and beco
• E2: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1984-01-24) — A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.
• E3: True West (1984-01-31) — Estranged brothers, screenwriter Austin and drifter Lee, clash while staying at their mother's house in suburban Southern California, leading to a chaotic role reversal that explor
• E4: Nothing But a Man (1984-02-07) — Railroad laborer Duff Anderson struggles to maintain his dignity and marriage to a preacher's daughter in the racially segregated South.
• E5: Popular Neurotics (1984-02-14) — Two young urban professionals, Lynne and Murray, meet by happenstance and begin an on-again, off-again relationship in which they struggle to transcend modern-day neuroses concerni
• E6: The Cafeteria (1984-02-21) — Esther Mirkin, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.
• E7: Refuge (1984-02-28) — 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.
• E8: The Gin Game (1984-03-06) — Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey reside at a nursing home, and they strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company.
• E9: Haunted (aka Vengeance Is Mine) (1984-03-20) — A recently divorced woman returns to her dysfunctional Rhode Island family home and gets involved in drama with her neighbors.
• E10: The Killing Floor (1984-04-10) — 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.
• E11: Heartland (1984-04-17) — Miraculous occurrences happen to people throughout the world every day. God's Miracles presents personal experiences as well as unvarnished scientific and factual evidence, allowin
• E12: City News (1984-04-24) — 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.
• E13: Hughie (1984-05-01) — In the lobby of a small hotel in midtown New York, small-time hustler Erie Smith talks to the hotel's new night clerk Charlie Hughes, lamenting how Smith's luck has worsened since
• E14: Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion (1984-05-07) — 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 result
• E15: Concealed Enemies, Part II: Accusation (1984-05-08) — 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 result
• E16: Concealed Enemies, Part III: Investigation (1984-05-09) — 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 result
• E17: Concealed Enemies, Part IV: Verdict (1984-05-09) — 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 result

Season 4

• E1: Testament (1984-11-26) — It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Sea
• E2: A Matter of Principle (1984-12-03) — Flag Purdy, a 'man of many principles', must learn the hard lesson of compromisation in order to keep his wife and children. The 'final straw' comes when the family bring a Christm
• E3: Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984-12-10) — A free Black man from New York is tricked, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South, where he endures twelve years of brutal servitude before finding a way to contact his fami
• E4: Tomorrow (1984-12-17) — A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.
• E5: Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985-01-14) — Over a single, pivotal Saturday in 1930s Harlem, 14-year-old John Grimes wrestles with his religious calling and his fraught relationship with his abusive, hypocritical stepfather,
• E6: Noon Wine (1985-01-21) — On a hot day in 1890s Texas, a stranger arrives at the small dairy farm of Royal and Ellie Thompson, seeking work. A taciturn, English-speaking Swede from North Dakota, Olaf Helton
• E7: The Joy That Kills (1985-01-28) — Louise dreams of traveling the world, but her weak heart and husband Brently's overbearing concern prevent her from doing so. However, news of a train accident changes everything.
• E8: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1985-02-04) — Computer programmer Aram Fingal's virtual vacation in the classic film Casablanca is removed by a totalitarian government and accidentally trapped in the virtual reality simulation
• E9: The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (1985-02-11) — Ralph Parker navigates his first serious romance with his new Polish neighbor, Josephine Cosnowski, during a Thanksgiving setting.
• E10: Some Men Need Help (1985-02-18) — An oddball Good Samaritan parable as ex Mafioso tries to save his drunk neighbor from himself.
• E11: Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985-02-25) — Charlotte Forten is a young Black woman who became an integral part of President Lincoln's 'Great Experiment'. During the Civil War, Southern troops were forced off the Sea Islands
• E12: Breakfast with Les and Bess (1985-03-11) — An eccentric couple broadcast their morning radio talk show from their New York apartment in the 1960s.
• E13: Nightsongs (1985-04-15) — A Chinese refugee from Vietnam emigrates to America, where she prepares to meet several relatives for the first time.
• E14: Under the Biltmore Clock (1985-04-25) — In 1915 Chicago, 21-year-old Myra Harper sets her sights on the wealthy and reserved Knowleton Whitney. All goes well, but later when Myra meets his wacky parents, it turns out to
• E15: Displaced Person (1985-05-06) — A young Black boy comes of age in an all-white German orphanage run by white nuns. Townspeople tease him that his father is an American GI named Joe Louis. Told of a 'sighting' of
• E16: The Europeans (1985-05-15) — The Countess Eugenia and her brother Robert, expatriate Americans who have grown up in Europe, return to prosperous relatives in New England. Eugenia hopes to make an advantageous
• E17: El Norte (1985-05-20) — Indigenous Guatemalan siblings Rosa and Enrique flee their village after a government massacre and undertake a perilous journey to the United States ('El Norte') seeking a new life
• E18: Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1) (1985-05-27) — In 1703 Salem, accused witch Sarah Cloyce, seeking justice for her sisters, recounts the events leading up to the trials, focusing on feuding neighbors and the girls' accusations,
• E19: Three Sovereigns for Sarah (2) (1985-06-03) — In 1703 Salem, accused witch Sarah Cloyce, seeking justice for her sisters, recounts the events leading up to the trials, focusing on feuding neighbors and the girls' accusations,
• E20: Three Sovereigns for Sarah (3) (1985-06-10) — In 1703 Salem, accused witch Sarah Cloyce, seeking justice for her sisters, recounts the events leading up to the trials, focusing on feuding neighbors and the girls' accusations,
• E21: Paper Angels (1985-06-15) — Chinese immigrants are detained on Angel Island in 1915 during the Chinese Exclusion era. The new arrivals express their hopes and anxieties as they try to reconcile their Chinese
• E22: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985-06-24) — An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous acc

Season 5

• E1: The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket (1986-01-20) — A young boy is ridiculed by his schoolmates for his eccentric behavior and assertions that he can fly. Little do they know…
• E2: The Roommate (1986-01-27) — In 1952, two polar opposites at Northwestern University are assigned to the same dorm room.
• E3: Valentine's Revenge (1986-02-03) — A convict serving five years writes stories under the name 'O. Henry'. He encounters a convicted safecracker and is inspired to write the story of Jimmy Valentine, a man invincible
• E4: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1) (1986-02-10) — Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Missi
• E5: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (2) (1986-02-17) — Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Missi
• E6: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (3) (1986-02-24) — Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Missi
• E7: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (4) (1986-03-03) — Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Missi
• E8: Tell Me a Riddle (1986-03-17) — Aging couple David and Eva have lost the spark that once infused their marriage. After nearly four decades together, the elderly duo is feel disconnected and lost. When they discov
• E9: The Little Sister (1986-04-07) — A Boston probation officer tries to help a troubled teenager from a rich Boston family.
• E10: The House of Ramon Iglesia (1986-04-14) — Ramón Iglesias plans to retire from his janitorial job, sell his house in a Long Island suburb and return to Puerto Rico with his wife and three sons. Unfortunately, he doesn't hol
• E11: A Flash of Green (1986-04-21) — Jimmy Wing is a Florida journalist and long-time friend of Elmo Bliss, a local businessman and politician involved in real-estate development. Bliss reveals his ruthless side, thre
• E12: Damien (1986-04-28) — Father Damien de Vuester, a 19th-century Roman Catholic priest who worked with lepers confined to the island of Molokai, discusses his experiences.
• E13: Rocket to the Moon (1986-05-05) — In 1938 New York, a dentist finds his business failing and his marriage on the rocks. Turning 40, he's a henpecked husband with little drive left for success. That is, until he sta
• E14: A Case of Libel (1986-05-12) — A former World War II reporter gets a lawyer and takes a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist to court.
• E15: Painting Churches (1986-05-19) — Gardner and Fanny Church prepare to move out of their Beacon Hill home to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Once a famous poet, the now-retired Gardner slips in and out of senility
• E16: Roanoak (1) (1986-05-26) — In 1584, a small band of Englishmen reached Roanoak Island off the coast of North Carolina, set up camp, and make contact with the residing Native Americans, calling on them for he
• E17: Roanoak (2) (1986-06-02) — In 1584, a small band of Englishmen reached Roanoak Island off the coast of North Carolina, set up camp, and make contact with the residing Native Americans, calling on them for he
• E18: Roanoak (3) (1986-06-09) — In 1584, a small band of Englishmen reached Roanoak Island off the coast of North Carolina, set up camp, and make contact with the residing Native Americans, calling on them for he
• E19: Sunday in the Park with George (1986-06-16) — The days leading up to the completion of his most famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat is struggling to make meaningful art and main

Season 6

• E1: All My Sons (1987-01-19) — Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years. Love and death play equal roles in determining the outcome of
• E2: The Prodigious Hickey (1987-01-26) — In 1905, at the prestigious Lawrenceville School, chief prankster William 'Hickey' Hicks comes up with a scheme to make his shy, unpopular roommate a legend.
• E3: The Wide Net (1987-02-02) — William Wallace searches for his pregnant wife, Hazel, who has withdrawn from him, using a net in the Pearl River during the vernal equinox, a ritualistic search that delves into t
• E4: Smooth Talk (1987-02-09) — Bored with family life, 15-year-old Connie spends her summer at the mall and with friends, but her carefree attitude is shattered by a dangerous encounter with a menacing stranger
• E5: A Mistaken Charity (1987-02-16) — Two elderly, impoverished women are forced from the family farm by well-meaning neighbors. Ensconced and miserable at a Home for Elderly Ladies, the duo begin their journey back ho
• E6: Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1987-03-02) — A widowed mother, convinced by a fortune teller she will die soon, pressures her youngest daughter to marry, while the daughter feels guilty about leaving her alone, creating a sub
• E7: Eleanor: In Her Own Words (1987-03-09) — A one-woman show featuring Lee Remick as former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who gives forth with her views — many controversial at the time and which infuriated the right wing of
• E8: The Innocents Abroad (1987-03-23) — Reporter Mark Twain tours Europe and the Holy Land for a San Francisco newspaper in 1867.
• E9: Story of a Marriage: Courtship (1987-04-13) — In the early 1900s, a young couple in love struggle with their deeply divided families. Elizabeth Vaughn hails from a wealthy, strict Methodist household. Horace Robedaux is viewed
• E10: Story of a Marriage: On Valentine's Day (1987-04-13) — When Elizabeth and Horace elope, the resulting familial estrangement establish independent life, build a marriage, and navigate early parenthood.
• E11: Story of a Marriage: 1918 (1987-05-04) — During the height of World War I, Horace faces immense pressure to enlist, all while the deadly Spanish Influenza outbreak descends on the small Texas community.
• E12: Charley's Aunt (1987-05-11) — 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 v
• E13: Gal Young 'Un (1987-05-18) — In 1930s rural Florida, a middle-aged widow marries a younger, charming bootlegger who uses her for her money and property, leading to a story of exploitation and resilience as she
• E14: The House of Blue Leaves (1987-05-25) — 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
• E15: Blue Window (1987-06-01) — In an affluent area of downtown New York City, a Sunday evening dinner party is hosted by Libby, an insecure thirty-something widow who lost her husband in an unfortunate accident.
• E16: Dottie (1987-06-08) — Middle-aged recluse Dottie McCann, suffering from agoraphobia, is forced to confront her illness when she must make the difficult journey to travel to see her estranged sister, who
• E17: Waiting for the Moon (1987-06-15) — A fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples, Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas. During a 1930s summer in France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit F

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How many seasons does American Playhouse have? 13 season(s) with 211 episodes.

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