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Season 1


Season 1, Episode 5: Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine

Original Air Date—9 February 1982
The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens' makes a magical and lasting change in the lives of an imaginative 12-year-old boy and a loving young woman.

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Blue Window

Original Air Date—9 June 1987
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.

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Original Air Date—23 February 1982
A unique award-winning tale of the African-American woman's journey in America.

Hallelujah

Original Air Date—22 December 1993

Hot Summer Winds

Original Air Date—22 May 1991

In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway

Original Air Date—11 June 1993

Land of Little Rain

Original Air Date—1 June 1989
In 1900, if you wanted to be a writer in California, you had better be a man. Mary Austin sought to prove herself against incredible odds as a poet, novelist, and playwright, teaching feminist ideals and becoming one of the foremost writers to document the complex culture and heritage of the American Southwest.

Life Under Water

Original Air Date—????

Painting Churches

Original Air Date—19 May 1986

Seguin

Original Air Date—26 January 1982

Sensibility and Sense

Original Air Date—24 January 1990
Two women and a man start out their adult life with all good intentions to change the world and keep their love alive and vital, but as time shows them (and us) it's not that easy.

The Great Whodunit

Original Air Date—1 March 1983
The viewer is led through crime mysteries by the stars and encouraged to outwit them. The viewer decides at home....Whodunit!

The Killing Floor

Original Air Date—January 1985
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement. He becomes prominent as a leader of fellow African-Americans in the union, though many, including his best friend, view him as a sell-out.

The Meeting

Original Air Date—3 May 1989
Fictional meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in Harlem in the early '60's.

The Price of Life

Original Air Date—1987

The Prodigious Hickey

Original Air Date—26 January 1987

The Shady Hill Kidnapping

Original Air Date—12 January 1982

The Sunset Gang

Original Air Date—5 April 1991
Three stories about the Jewish elderly in Florida: in "Yiddish," a man and a woman, both married to others, form a bond through their native language; in "The Detective," a married couple who have grown apart come together again as they pursue a thief in the neighborhood; and in "The Home," a woman struggles against her grown children, who want to place her in a nursing facility.

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

Original Air Date—27 May 1985

Tru

Original Air Date—23 November 1992

True West

Original Air Date—31 January 1984
A videotaped stage performance of Sam Shepard's play

Under the Biltmore Clock

Original Air Date—31 March 1986

Who Am I This Time?

Original Air Date—2 February 1982
From a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on screen. Susan Sarandon is new in town, a lonely itenerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Walken's Stanley when the theater group does A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the problem, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.

Working

Original Air Date—13 April 1982
A musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's book celebrating the lives of everyday working-class people.

Zora Is My Name!

Original Air Date—????

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