American Playhouse
Season 3
198417 episodes
Episode 1
The Ghost Writer
Jan 17, 19841h 18m
TMDB rating 8.0TMDB
Aspiring writer Nathan Zuckerman visits the secluded home of his literary idol, E.I. Lonoff. While there, Zuckerman becomes entangled in the author's complex domestic life and becomes captivated by a mysterious young woman.
Episode 2
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Jan 24, 19841h 30m
A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.
Episode 3
True West
Jan 31, 19841h 50m
Estranged brothers, screenwriter Austin and drifter Lee, clash while staying at their mother's house in suburban Southern California, leading to a chaotic role reversal that explores themes of identity, family, and the American Dream.
Episode 4
Nothing But a Man
Feb 7, 19841h 35m
Railroad laborer Duff Anderson struggles to maintain his dignity and marriage to a preacher's daughter in the racially segregated South.
Episode 5
Popular Neurotics
Feb 14, 19841h
Two young urban professionals, Lynne and Murray, meet by happenstance and begin an on-again, off-again relationship in which they struggle to transcend modern-day neuroses concerning courtship.
Episode 6
The Cafeteria
Feb 21, 198452m
Esther Mirkin, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.
Episode 7
Refuge
Feb 28, 19841h 30m
On a remote island off the coast of Maine, four people attempt to relax but the isolated refuge fails to protect them from their own insecurities and jealousies.
Episode 8
The Gin Game
Mar 6, 19841h
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey reside at a nursing home, and they strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin rummy, and engage in lengthy conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world.
Episode 9
Haunted (aka Vengeance Is Mine)
Mar 20, 19841h
A recently divorced woman returns to her dysfunctional Rhode Island family home and gets involved in drama with her neighbors.
Episode 10
The Killing Floor
Apr 10, 19841h 58m
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.
Episode 11
Heartland
Apr 17, 198452m
Miraculous occurrences happen to people throughout the world every day. God's Miracles presents personal experiences as well as unvarnished scientific and factual evidence, allowing the viewer to draw their own conclusions as to whether it is possible for God to grant miracles.
Episode 12
City News
Apr 24, 19841h 5m
The struggles of Tom Domino, publisher and editor of a seemingly doomed, underground newspaper in New York City's East Village are chronicled in this dark comedy.
Episode 13
Hughie
May 1, 19841h
In the lobby of a small hotel in midtown New York, small-time hustler Erie Smith talks to the hotel's new night clerk Charlie Hughes, lamenting how Smith's luck has worsened since the death of Hughie, Hughes' predecessor.
Episode 14
Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion
May 7, 198455m
A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.
Episode 15
Concealed Enemies, Part II: Accusation
May 8, 198455m
A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.
Episode 16
Concealed Enemies, Part III: Investigation
May 9, 198455m
A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.
Episode 17
Concealed Enemies, Part IV: Verdict
May 9, 198455m
A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.