Season 2
12 episodes · Jan 18, 1983
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- S2E1
The Skin of Our Teeth
Jan 18, 1983113mThe Antrobus family and their housekeeper Lilly Sabina face various global disasters, including a new ice age, a great flood, and a devastating war.
- S2E2
Miss Lonelyhearts
Jan 25, 198360mA 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.
- S2E3
Family Business
Feb 1, 198350mIsaiah Stern is a wealthy, but dying, toy manufacturer. Once more, Stern has gathered his grown sons to revise his will. Three of the four are used to these idiosyncratic changes, and have come to accept them: however, the fourth, a married psychologist, is heavily in debt and doesn't like his thin share, 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.
- S2E4
Keeping On
Feb 8, 198375mA low-key drama exploring the struggles of an impoverished sharecropping family in the rural South with themes of Southern identity, morality, and family.
- S2E5
The File on Jill Hatch (1)
Feb 15, 198358mA decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.
- S2E6
The File on Jill Hatch (2)
Feb 22, 198358mA decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.
- S2E7
The File on Jill Hatch (3)
Mar 1, 198358mA decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.
- S2E8
For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story
Mar 22, 198390mDuring the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi, Medgar Evers rose from insurance agent to one of the most integral activists of the era. From boycotting white merchants in the mid-'50s to being a key figure in desegregating the University of Mississippi in 1962, Evers met success, and with it, many enemies. When racists swarm his house, his life and the lives of his wife and children are threatened.
- S2E9
Verse Person Singular
Mar 29, 198360mActor Richard Kiley takes on the personae of thirteen different characters as he reads his favorite poems written in the first-person.
- S2E10
Until She Talks
Apr 5, 198360mThe story of a young woman imprisoned for declining to testify before a grand jury; comprised from real courtroom transcripts and based on the experiences of individuals jailed for their refusal to testify.
- S2E11
Wings
Apr 26, 198360mFormer 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.
- S2E12
The Rothko Conspiracy
May 3, 198360mA dramatization of the fight over the estate of artist Mark Rothko, who killed himself in 1970.