About this season
American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
Episodes (17)
1. The Ghostwriter
8.0Aired 17 January 1984 • 60 min
2. Pudd'nhead Wilson
Aired 24 January 1984 • 60 min
3. True West
Aired 31 January 1984 • 60 min
A videotaped stage performance of Sam Shepard's play
4. Nothing But a Man
Aired 7 February 1984 • 60 min
5. Popular Neurotics
Aired 14 February 1984 • 60 min
Two young urban professionals, each with their own neuroses, make the fatal mistake one day of meeting by chance at an automatic bank teller machine and making a date for the movies.
6. The Cafeteria
Aired 21 February 1984 • 60 min
7. Refuge
Aired 28 February 1984
8. The Gin Game
Aired 6 March 1984 • 60 min
9. Haunted
Aired 20 March 1984 • 60 min
10. The Killing Floor
Aired 10 April 1984 • 60 min
11. Heartland
Aired 17 April 1984 • 60 min
12. City News
Aired 24 April 1984 • 60 min
City News is an independent, American comedy film, written and directed by David Fishelson and Zoe Zinman in New York City in 1983, which was nationally broadcast on PBS in 1984, exhibited theatrically in the U.S. and Canada in 1983, and selected for 12 international film festivals in 1983-4.
13. Hughie
Aired 1 May 1984 • 60 min
14. Concealed Enemies (1)
Aired 7 May 1984 • 60 min
15. Concealed Enemies (2)
Aired 8 May 1984 • 60 min
16. Concealed Enemies (3)
Aired 9 May 1984 • 60 min
17. Concealed Enemies (4)
Aired 9 May 1984