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American Playhouse

1982 – 1996Show13 seasons · 211 episodesTV-PGEnded1 award

ComedyDrama
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IMDb7.2
69
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb7.2

Summary

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Good for

  • Family movie night
  • Friends night
  • Kids

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  • Feels like real life.
  • Teaches you something.
  • Makes you care deeply.

Not for scares, adrenaline or brutality.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

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Tropes

Court Jesterin 64 titlesJulie Taymor's episode, "Fool's Fire" is a heavily stylized adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Hop-Frog".Intermissionin 215 titlesThe show used a title card saying "Intermission" halfway through their longer episodes, complete with voiceover saying that the production would return afterwards.All 5 tropes

American Playhouse episodes

13 seasons · 211 episodes

  1. S1 E1 The Shady Hill Kidnapping, 7.8
  2. S1 E2 King of America, 4.2
  3. S1 E3 Seguin, 6.3
  4. S1 E4 Who Am I This Time?, 7.6
  5. S1 E5 Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine, 7.0
  6. S1 E6 Come Along with Me, 6.0
  7. S1 E7 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, 8.1
  8. S1 E8 Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences, 7.0
  9. S1 E9 Fifth of July, 8.1
  10. S1 E10 The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters, 7.6
  11. S1 E11 Pilgrim, Farewell, 7.5
  12. S1 E13 Medal of Honor Rag, 7.6
  13. S1 E14 Working, 7.2
  14. S1 E16 Private Contentment, 7.7
  15. S1 E17 My Palikari, 7.6
  16. S1 E25 The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, 7.0
  1. S2 E1 The Skin of Our Teeth, 7.9
  2. S2 E2 Miss Lonelyhearts, 6.9
  3. S2 E3 Family Business, 8.5
  4. S2 E4 Keeping On, 5.5
  5. S2 E5 The Files on Jill Hatch: Part I, 8.7
  6. S2 E8 For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story, 7.4
  7. S2 E11 Wings, 7.8
  8. S2 E12 The Rothko Conspiracy, 7.4
  1. S3 E1 The Ghost Writer, 7.1
  2. S3 E2 Pudd'nhead Wilson, 7.0
  3. S3 E3 True West, 8.5
  4. S3 E5 Popular Neurotics, 8.6
  5. S3 E6 The Cafeteria, 8.4
  6. S3 E9 Vengeance Is Mine, 6.8
  7. S3 E10 The Killing Floor, 7.3
  8. S3 E12 City News, 6.2
  9. S3 E13 Hughie, 9.3
  10. S3 E14 Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion, 8.3
  1. S4 E2 A Matter of Principle, 6.9
  2. S4 E3 Solomon Northup's Odyssey, 7.3
  3. S4 E5 Go Tell It on the Mountain, 7.8
  4. S4 E6 Noon Wine, 7.2
  5. S4 E7 The Joy That Kills, 6.6
  6. S4 E9 The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski, 8.2
  7. S4 E10 Some Men Need Help, 6.6
  8. S4 E11 Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom, 7.5
  9. S4 E12 Breakfast with Les and Bess, 8.2
  10. S4 E13 Nightsongs, 7.4
  11. S4 E14 Under the Biltmore Clock, 6.9
  12. S4 E15 Displaced Person, 7.8
  13. S4 E18 Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part I, 7.5
  14. S4 E19 Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part II, 7.6
  15. S4 E20 Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part III, 9.0
  1. S5 E1 The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, 7.1
  2. S5 E4 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part 1, 7.0
  3. S5 E5 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part II, 7.5
  4. S5 E6 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part III, 7.1
  5. S5 E7 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part IV, 7.2
  6. S5 E13 Rocket to the Moon, 7.0
  7. S5 E15 Painting Churches, 9.0
  8. S5 E16 Roanoak: Part I, 7.5
  9. S5 E19 Sunday in the Park with George, 8.3
  1. S6 E1 All My Sons, 7.6
  2. S6 E2 The Prodigious Hickey, 7.9
  3. S6 E3 The Wide Net, 8.8
  4. S6 E5 Eleanor: In Her Own Words, 9.6
  5. S6 E7 Charley's Aunt, 9.3
  6. S6 E8 The House of Blue Leaves, 8.2
  7. S6 E9 Blue Window, 8.9
  8. S6 E10 Dottie, 7.6
  1. S7 E1 Strange Interlude: Part 1, 8.3
  2. S7 E6 The Revolt of Mother, 7.4
  3. S7 E7 Pigeon Feathers, 6.9
  4. S7 E10 Journey Into Genius, 6.9
  5. S7 E11 Suspicion, 5.2
  6. S7 E12 The Trial of Bernhard Goetz, 6.9
  7. S7 E13 I Never Sang for My Father, 8.1
  8. S7 E15 The Big Knife, 6.1
  1. S8 E1 A Raisin in the Sun, 7.4
  2. S8 E2 Ask Me Again, 8.8
  3. S8 E5 Love and Other Sorrows, 6.9
  4. S8 E8 Life Under Water, 5.2
  5. S8 E9 The Diaries of Adam and Eve, 8.3
  6. S8 E10 The Meeting, 8.8
  7. S8 E13 Land of Little Rain, 8.0
  8. S8 E14 Imagining America, 7.2
  1. S9 E1 Sensibility and Sense, 8.0
  2. S9 E2 Women & Wallace, 7.5
  3. S9 E3 Zora Is My Name!, 6.4
  4. S9 E4 Andre's Mother, 7.7
  1. S10 E1 Into the Woods, 8.7
  2. S10 E2 The Grapes of Wrath, 7.6
  3. S10 E4 The Hollow Boy, 8.1
  4. S10 E5 O Pioneers!, 8.0
  5. S10 E6 Hot Summer Winds, 7.4
  6. S10 E7 The Sunset Gang, 8.8
  1. S11 E1 Fires in the Mirror, 7.6
  2. S11 E3 The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess, 7.8
  3. S11 E5 Hallelujah, 7.6
  1. S12 E1 Tru, 9.3
  2. S12 E7 In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway, 8.4

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