About this season
American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
Episodes (17)
1. All My Sons
Aired 19 January 1987 • 60 min
2. The Lawrenceville Stories 1: The Prodigious Hickey
Aired 26 January 1987 • 60 min
3. The Wide Net
Aired 2 February 1987 • 60 min
4. Smooth Talk
Aired 9 February 1987
5. A Mistaken Charity
Aired 16 February 1987 • 60 min
6. Eleanor: In Her Own Words
Aired 9 March 1987 • 60 min
7. The Innocents Abroad
Aired 23 March 1987 • 60 min
8. Story of a Marriage (1)
Aired 6 April 1987
9. Story of a Marriage (2)
Aired 13 April 1987
10. Story of a Marriage (3)
Aired 13 April 1987
11. A Case of Libel
Aired 4 May 1987
12. Charley's Aunt
Aired 11 May 1987 • 60 min
Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney. - Written by Ed
13. Gal Young 'Un
Aired 18 May 1987 • 60 min
14. The House of Blue Leaves
Aired 25 May 1987 • 60 min
Zoo attendant Artie Shaughnessy dreams of being a successful songwriter. What his mistress, Bunny Flingus, who lives downstairs from his Queens apartment won't tell him -- and what his insane wife, Bananas, tries to get through to him -- is that Artie's songs stink. On Oct. 4, 1965, the day Pope Paul visits New York City, Bunny convinces Artie to call his old school buddy Billy Einhorn, a famous film director from Los Angeles, to finagle a job writing music for Billy's movies. (After all, Bunny feels that with the Pope here, there must be "miracles in the air.") But ...
15. Blue Window
Aired 1 June 1987 • 60 min
In an affluent area of downtown New York City, a Sunday evening dinner party is taking place. Hosted by Libby, an insecure thirty-something widow who lost her husband in an unfortunate accident, her guest of honor is downstairs neighbor Alice, a successful novelist, and Alice's lesbian lover, Boo, a family therapist. The other guests are Griever, Libby's best friend from group therapy; Norbert, Libby's gentle skydiving instructor; Tom, an old high-school boyfriend of Libby's now working as a jazz musician and composer, and Emily, Tom's current live-in girlfriend.
16. Dottie
Aired 8 June 1987 • 60 min
17. Waiting for the Moon
Aired 15 June 1987 • 60 min
Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.