About this season
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Episodes (7)
1. Doctor Fischer of Geneva
7.5Aired 11 October 1985
2. Three by Three
Aired 18 October 1985
3. Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
Aired 7 December 1984 • 140 min
4. The Importance of Being Ernest
8.0Aired 29 November 1985
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
13. Heartbreak House
Aired 24 April 1985 • 122 min
Re-creation of the Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's 1920 comedy of manners. The troubles of England are parallel with the domestic troubles of Captain Shotover's household.
23. Early Days
Aired 18 April 1986
24. Grown-Ups
Aired 25 November 1986 • 60 min
A middle-aged journalist has, at last, grown up - only to find he's trapped in a world of emotional infants.