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 - Testament
Release Date: 1984-11-26 -
Episode 2 - A Matter of Principle
Release Date: 1984-12-03 -
Episode 3 - Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Release Date: 1984-12-10Solomon 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.
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Episode 4 - Tomorrow
Release Date: 1984-12-17 -
Episode 5 - Go Tell It On the Mountain
Release Date: 1985-01-14 -
Episode 6 - Noon Wine
Release Date: 1985-01-21 -
Episode 7 - The Joy That Kills
Release Date: 1985-01-28The 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.
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Episode 8 - Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Release Date: 1985-02-04 -
Episode 9 - The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski
Release Date: 1985-02-11 -
Episode 10 - Some Men Need Help
Release Date: 1985-02-18 -
Episode 11 - Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Release Date: 1985-02-25 -
Episode 12 - Breakfast with Les and Bess
Release Date: 1985-03-11 -
Episode 13 - Nightsongs
Release Date: 1985-04-15 -
Episode 14 - Under the Biltmore Clock
Release Date: 1985-04-25F. 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.
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Episode 15 - Displaced Person
Release Date: 1985-05-06 -
Episode 16 - The Europeans
Release Date: 1985-05-15 -
Episode 17 - El Norte
Release Date: 1985-05-20 -
Episode 18 - Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part I
Release Date: 1985-05-27 -
Episode 19 - Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part II
Release Date: 1985-06-03 -
Episode 20 - Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part III
Release Date: 1985-06-10 -
Episode 21 - Paper Angels
Release Date: 1985-06-15 -
Episode 22 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Release Date: 1985-06-24