American Playhouse

Season 10

Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.

Where to Watch Season 10

6 Episodes

  • Into the Woods
    E1
    Into the WoodsA childless baker and his wife cannot have a child until they follow the bidding of the witch next door to get a cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, and the slipper as pure as gold. Good thing, then that they've got neighbors named Jack, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Cinderella to help them before (and after) Happily Ever After.
  • The Grapes of Wrath
    E2
    The Grapes of WrathA poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
  • Three Hotels
    E3
    Three HotelsThe deteriorating lives of a married couple are presented in a series of monologues delivered in a series of three Mexican hotel rooms.
  • The Sunset Gang
    E4
    The Sunset GangThree stories about the Jewish elderly in Florida: in "Yiddish," a man and a woman, both married to others, form a bond through their native language; in "The Detective," a married couple who have grown apart come together again as they pursue a thief in the neighborhood; and in "The Home," a woman struggles against her grown children, who want to place her in a nursing facility.
  • Hot Summer Winds
    E5
    Hot Summer WindsBased on two short stories by Hisaye Yamamoto this play details the domestic tension between an illiterate Japanese immigrant farmer and his educated wife in 1930s California
  • The Hollow Boy
    E6
    The Hollow BoyA lonely German-American boy, whose bigoted parents want him to constantly work in their bakery, finds solace in a close-knit, musically-gifted Jewish-American family in the apartment across from his.

 

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