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 (10)
1. Episode 1
9.0Aired 23 January 1974
2. June Moon
Aired 30 January 1974
In a nod to the days of classic American comedy, a 1929's Tin Pan Alley lyricist meets a composer who has a big hit: "Paprika... the Spice of My Life."
3. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
Aired 8 May 1974
Mr. Holroyd is an alcoholic, abusive miner in pre-WWI England who terrorizes his family. Mrs. Holroyd plans to run away with her would-be lover when Mr. Holroyd dies in a mining accident, leaving the family torn with guilt over their hatred of the dead man. Geraldine Page and Rex Robins star.
4. Antigone
Aired 13 February 1974
5. King Lear
Aired 20 February 1974 • 175 min
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
6. Episode 6
7.0Aired 20 March 1974
7. Episode 7
4.8Aired 27 March 1974
8. Episode 8
8.0Aired 8 May 1974
9. Episode 9
Aired 22 May 1974
10. Episode 10
Aired 25 December 1974