American PlayhouseSezon 2

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Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.

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12 Episodes

The Skin of Our Teeth
E1
The Skin of Our TeethA 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 are dinosaurs--and having characters speak directly to the audience and criticize the way their own dialogues were written.
Miss Lonelyhearts
E2
Miss LonelyheartsA 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.
Family Business
E3
Family BusinessIsaiah 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.
Keeping On
E4
Keeping OnA low-key 90-minute drama about unionizing a small southern mill town, a process which affects the whole town, not only the textile workers.
The File on Jill Hatch (1)
E5
The File on Jill Hatch (1)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.
The File on Jill Hatch (2)
E6
The File on Jill Hatch (2)
The File on Jill Hatch (3)
E7
The File on Jill Hatch (3)
For Us, the Living
E8
For Us, the Living
Verse Person Singular
E9
Verse Person SingularActor Richard Kiley takes on the personae of thirteen different characters as he reads his favorite poems written in the first-person.
Until She Talks
E10
Until She TalksThe 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.
Wings
E11
WingsFormer 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.
The Rothko Conspiracy
E12
The Rothko ConspiracyA drama based on the fight over the estate of artist Mark Rothko, who killed himself in 1970.