Season 9
18 episodes · Jan 24, 1990
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- S9E1
Sensibility and Sense
Jan 24, 1990137mThree friends, once bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s, reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of them wrote.
- S9E2
Women and Wallace
Jan 31, 199080mAfter his mother's suicide, Wallace Kirkman struggles in his relationships with the women in his life.
- S9E3
The Wizard of Loneliness
Feb 7, 1990111mAfter his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, young Wendall Oler moves in with his aunt and uncle in the countryside. Lonely, he starts believing he has superpowers. Then a 'dead' man shows up.
- S9E4
Zora Is My Name!
Feb 14, 199079mA celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th-century and grew to be an important voice with her written portrayals of Black American life in the rural south of the 1930s and 40s, and the stories, songs and folklore that were her heritage and inspiration.
- S9E5
In a Shallow Grave
Feb 21, 199092mDisfigured WWII veteran Garnet Montrose returns from Guadacanal and enlists a drifter to court his former sweetheart through letters, leading to a complex love triangle with unexpected romantic developments.
- S9E6
Andre's Mother
Mar 7, 199048mKatherine Gerard has lost her son Andre to AIDS. At his memorial service, we follow Katherine confronting the death of her son, the anguish of his lover Cal Porter, and, in flashbacks, the key moments of denial and miscommunication with those closest to her.
- S9E7
The Wash
Mar 21, 199094mNobu Matsumoto is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife Masi gradually encounters a widower, a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the transition to leave her husband and go to this fellow.
- S9E8
Triple Play
Mar 28, 199056mA trio of short films by Chanticleer Films and Columbia Pictures: Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (an older widower accidentally stumbles into a lively, eccentric male dance class in a desolate mall, finding a new lease on life); Teach 109 (futuristic surgeons practice their skill on androids designed to imitate patients, but Dr. Garrett sees this as pointless since she cares little about fake robotic patients; however, her latest patient changes her mind); and Homesick (a young boy named Sam navigates family changes during the 1920s).
- S9E9
Break of Dawn
Apr 11, 1990105mIn 1930s Los Angeles, Mexican immigrant Pedro J. González becomes a pioneering Spanish-language radio star before being wrongly convicted and imprisoned at San Quentin.
- S9E10
Prisoners of Inertia
Apr 25, 199092mIndecisive newlyweds get into a series of misadventures while on a day trip from Manhattan to Hoboken, New Jersey.
- S9E11
Eat a Bowl of Tea
May 2, 1990102mAn American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a living and adjusting to a new life, plus the attentions of a gambler threaten their marriage.
- S9E12
All God's Dangers
May 9, 199088mNed Shaw recounts his life as an illiterate Black tenant farmer born into a society of former slaves and slaveholders. The story ends in December 1932 when he courageously stood his ground against white deputy sheriffs who were attempting to seize a neighbor's livestock.
- S9E13
Sidewalk Stories
May 16, 1990102mA New York City street artist rescues a baby girl after her father is murdered. He then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to care for the child. Ultimately, he ends up in a horse-drawn chase for the murderers.
- S9E14
Bloodhounds of Broadway
May 23, 199093mOn New Year's Eve 1928, in the New York underworld, a gambler sells his body to science, a gangster needs a transfusion, and a gambler is on the run
- S9E15
Where the Spirit Lives
Jun 6, 199096mIn 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. Taken to a boarding school where she's forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment, she has the support of one sympathetic white teacher.
- S9E16
An Enemy of the People
Jun 13, 199090mWhen a scientist learns that his town's lucrative springs present a serious health threat, the community refuses to listen to him.
- S9E17
Separation
Jun 27, 199080mWhen neurologically ill American actress Sarah calls emotionally crippled English playwright Joe, they begin a very special relationship conducted through trans-Antlantic phone calls. In order to face reality, both must overcome their conditions.
- S9E18
Hyde in Hollywood
Jul 6, 1990114mIn 1939, closeted director/actor Julian Hyde finds himself targeted by vicious and unscrupulous attacks by a gossip column by the name of Hollywood Confidential.