American Playhouse

Season 2

12 episodes · Jan 18, 1983

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  • S2E1

    The Skin of Our Teeth

    Jan 18, 1983113m

    The Antrobus family and their housekeeper Lilly Sabina face various global disasters, including a new ice age, a great flood, and a devastating war.

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  • S2E2

    Miss Lonelyhearts

    Jan 25, 198360m

    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.

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  • S2E3

    Family Business

    Feb 1, 198350m

    Isaiah 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.

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  • S2E4

    Keeping On

    Feb 8, 198375m

    A low-key drama exploring the struggles of an impoverished sharecropping family in the rural South with themes of Southern identity, morality, and family.

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  • S2E5

    The File on Jill Hatch (1)

    Feb 15, 198358m

    A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.

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  • S2E6

    The File on Jill Hatch (2)

    Feb 22, 198358m

    A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.

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  • S2E7

    The File on Jill Hatch (3)

    Mar 1, 198358m

    A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.

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  • S2E8

    For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story

    Mar 22, 198390m

    During 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.

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  • S2E9

    Verse Person Singular

    Mar 29, 198360m

    Actor Richard Kiley takes on the personae of thirteen different characters as he reads his favorite poems written in the first-person.

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  • S2E10

    Until She Talks

    Apr 5, 198360m

    The 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.

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  • S2E11

    Wings

    Apr 26, 198360m

    Former 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.

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  • S2E12

    The Rothko Conspiracy

    May 3, 198360m

    A dramatization of the fight over the estate of artist Mark Rothko, who killed himself in 1970.

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