American Playhouse (1982)
American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
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Episode 1 - All My Sons
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Episode 2 - The Prodigious Hickey
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Episode 3 - The Wide Net
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Episode 4 - A Mistaken Charity
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Episode 5 - Eleanor: In Her Own Words
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Episode 6 - The Innocents Abroad
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Episode 7 - Charley's Aunt
Release Date: 1987-05-11Charley 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
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Episode 8 - The House of Blue Leaves
Release Date: 1987-05-25Zoo 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 ...
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Episode 9 - Blue Window
Release Date: 1987-06-01In 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.
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Episode 10 - Dottie
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Episode 11 - Waiting for the Moon
Release Date: 1987-06-15Fictionalized 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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Episode 12 - Gal Young 'Un
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Episode 14 - Charley's Aunt
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Episode 16 - The House of Blue Leaves
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Episode 17 - Blue Window
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Episode 18 - Dottie
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Episode 19 - Waiting for the Moon
Release Date: 1987-06-15Fictionalized 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.