Paul Bogart
Director
American Playhouse (1982)
Season 6
American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
Released Jan. 12, 1982
Episode 60 min
None+
Keywords: imdb.anthology, imdb.1980s, imdb.satire-comedy, awards.emmy-award-winner, awards.emmy-award-nominated
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S6E1 - All My Sons
Jan. 19, 1987, midnight
S6E2 - The Lawrenceville Stories 1: The Prodigious Hickey
Jan. 26, 1987, midnight
S6E3 - The Wide Net
Feb. 2, 1987, midnight
S6E5 - A Mistaken Charity
Feb. 16, 1987, midnight
S6E6 - Eleanor: In Her Own Words
March 9, 1987, midnight
S6E7 - The Innocents Abroad
March 23, 1987, midnight
S6E12 - Charley's Aunt
Charley 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
May 11, 1987, midnight
S6E14 - The House of Blue Leaves
Zoo 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 ...
May 25, 1987, midnight
S6E15 - Blue Window
In 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.
June 1, 1987, midnight
S6E16 - Dottie
June 8, 1987, midnight
S6E17 - Waiting for the Moon
Fictionalized 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.
June 15, 1987, midnight
S6E13 - Gal Young 'Un
May 18, 1987, midnight
S6E4 - Smooth Talk
Feb. 9, 1987, midnight
S6E8 - Story of a Marriage (1)
April 6, 1987, midnight
S6E9 - Story of a Marriage (2)
April 13, 1987, midnight
S6E10 - Story of a Marriage (3)
April 13, 1987, midnight
S6E11 - A Case of Libel
May 4, 1987, midnight
Network: PBS
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 10620 min.
Released: Jan. 12, 1982
Last Air Date: Sept. 29, 1996, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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