
American Playhouse (1982)
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Patrick Dromgoole — Producer
Episodes 112
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
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King of America
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Seguin
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Who Am I This Time?
From a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on screen. Susan Sarandon is new in town, a lonely itenerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Walken's Stanley when the theater group does A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the problem, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.
Read MoreAny Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine
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Come Along With Me
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For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
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Echoes and Silences
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Fifth of July
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The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters is a 1982 comedy drama TV movie written by Jean Shepherd and directed by Richard Bartlett.
Read MorePilgrim Farewell
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Northern lights
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Medal of Honor Rag
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Working
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Private Contentment
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My Palikari
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Oppenheimer (1)
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Oppenheimer (2)
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Oppenheimer (3)
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Oppenheimer (4)
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Oppenheimer (5)
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Oppenheimer (6)
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Oppenheimer (7)
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
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The Skin of Our Teeth
The Skin of Our Teeth is the 1983 biographical drama TV episode of American Playhouse TV Series.
Read MoreMiss Lonelyhearts
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 an interest in one of the readers sending letters.
Read MoreFamily Business
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Keeping On
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The File on Jill Hatch (1)
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The File on Jill Hatch (2)
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The File on Jill Hatch (3)
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For Us, the Living
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Verse Person Singular
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Until She Talks
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Wings
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The Rothko Conspiracy
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The Ghostwriter
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Nothing But a Man
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Popular Neurotics
Two young urban professionals, each with their own neuroses, make the fatal mistake one day of meeting by chance at an automatic bank teller machine and making a date for the movies.
Read MoreThe Cafeteria
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Refuge
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The Gin Game
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Haunted
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The Killing Floor
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Heartland
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City News
City News is an independent, American comedy film, written and directed by David Fishelson and Zoe Zinman in New York City in 1983, which was nationally broadcast on PBS in 1984, exhibited theatrically in the U.S. and Canada in 1983, and selected for 12 international film festivals in 1983-4.
Read MoreHughie
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Concealed Enemies (1)
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Concealed Enemies (2)
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Concealed Enemies (3)
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Concealed Enemies (4)
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Testament
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A Matter of Principle
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Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Solomon Northup's Odyssey, reissued as Half Slave, Half Free, is a 1984 American television film based on the autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The film, which aired on PBS, was directed by Gordon Parks with Avery Brooks starring as the titular character. It was the second film to be funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, following Denmark Vesey's Rebellion in 1982. Parks returned to direct the film after years of absence. He chose to work in the Deep South and to collaborate with a crew of mixed races. The film first aired on PBS on December 10, 1984 and as part of PBS's American Playhouse anthology television series in the following year. It was released on video under the title Half Slave, Half Free.
Read MoreTomorrow
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Go Tell It On the Mountain
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Noon Wine
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The Joy That Kills
The Joy that Kills is a 1984 television film adaptation of Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." It was directed by Tina Rathborne and co-written by Rathbone and Nancy Dyer. It was released in 1984 as a part of the PBS series American Playhouse.
Read MoreOverdrawn at the Memory Bank
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The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski
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Some Men Need Help
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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
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Breakfast with Les and Bess
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Nightsongs
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Under the Biltmore Clock
F. Scott Fitzgerald's comedy of a stylish young flapper (Sean Young) who chooses a husband (Lenny Von Dohlen), but finds she can't compete with his family.
Read MoreDisplaced Person
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The Europeans
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El Norte
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Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part I
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Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part II
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Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part III
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Paper Angels
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
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The Roommate
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Valentine's Revenge
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part I
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part II
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part III
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part IV
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Tell Me a Riddle
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The Little Sister
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The House of Ramon Iglesia
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A Flash of Green
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Damien
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Rocket to the Moon
In 1938 New York, a dentist finds his business failing and his marriage on the rocks. He is a hen-pecked husband with little drive left for success. That is, until he starts getting involved with his lively assistant, a free spirit with a penchant for tall tales and a hidden loneliness.
Read MoreA Case of Libel
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Painting Churches
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Roanoak (1)
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Roanoak (2)
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Roanoak (3)
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Sunday in the Park with George
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All My Sons
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The Lawrenceville Stories 1: The Prodigious Hickey
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The Wide Net
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Smooth Talk
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A Mistaken Charity
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Eleanor: In Her Own Words
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The Innocents Abroad
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Story of a Marriage (1)
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Story of a Marriage (2)
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Story of a Marriage (3)
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A Case of Libel
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Charley's Aunt
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 visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney. - Written by Ed
Read MoreGal Young 'Un
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The House of Blue Leaves
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 his insane wife, Bananas, tries to get through to him -- is that Artie's songs stink. On Oct. 4, 1965, the day Pope Paul visits New York City, Bunny convinces Artie to call his old school buddy Billy Einhorn, a famous film director from Los Angeles, to finagle a job writing music for Billy's movies. (After all, Bunny feels that with the Pope here, there must be "miracles in the air.") But ...
Read MoreBlue Window
In an affluent area of downtown New York City, a Sunday evening dinner party is taking place. Hosted by Libby, an insecure thirty-something widow who lost her husband in an unfortunate accident, her guest of honor is downstairs neighbor Alice, a successful novelist, and Alice's lesbian lover, Boo, a family therapist. The other guests are Griever, Libby's best friend from group therapy; Norbert, Libby's gentle skydiving instructor; Tom, an old high-school boyfriend of Libby's now working as a jazz musician and composer, and Emily, Tom's current live-in girlfriend.
Read MoreDottie
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Waiting for the Moon
Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.
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