About this season
American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
Episodes (12)
1. The Skin of Our Teeth
7.0Aired 18 January 1983 • 60 min
The Skin of Our Teeth is the 1983 biographical drama TV episode of American Playhouse TV Series.
2. Miss Lonelyhearts
7.0Aired 25 January 1983 • 60 min
A young Depression-era reporter is assigned to write his newspaper's advice column on the insistence of his mocking editor. Unhappy in the demeaning assignment, he begins to take an interest in one of the readers sending letters.
3. Family Business
Aired 1 February 1983 • 60 min
4. Keeping On
Aired 8 February 1983 • 60 min
5. The File on Jill Hatch (1)
Aired 15 February 1983 • 60 min
Part 1 of 3: The story deals with the marriage of a black American soldier and a white British woman. Spanning four decades and two decades with drama also introduces their rebellious daughter, Jill, who eventually becomes civil rights activist. Beginning in the war-torn England of the 1940 where the couple meet and fall in love.
6. The File on Jill Hatch (2)
Aired 22 February 1983 • 60 min
7. The File on Jill Hatch (3)
Aired 1 March 1983 • 60 min
8. For Us, the Living
Aired 22 March 1983 • 60 min
9. Verse Person Singular
Aired 29 March 1983 • 60 min
10. Until She Talks
Aired 5 April 1983 • 60 min
11. Wings
Aired 26 April 1983 • 60 min
12. The Rothko Conspiracy
Aired 3 May 1983 • 60 min