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American Playhouse

Season 5 1986

  • 1986-01-20T05:00:00Z on PBS
  • 1h
  • 19h (19 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Drama
American Playhouse was an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. It premiered on January 12, 1982 with The Shady Hill Kidnapping, written and narrated by John Cheever and directed by Paul Bogart. Its final broadcast, In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway, a rerun of a behind-the-scenes look at Tony Kushner's award-winning play in two parts, aired on January 1, 1994. The series proved to be the springboard for the careers of numerous performers, including David Marshall Grant, Laura Linney, A Martinez, Conchata Ferrell, Eric Roberts, Lynne Thigpen, John Malkovich, Peter Riegert, Lupe Ontiveros, Ben Stiller, and Megan Mullally.

19 episodes

Season Premiere

1986-01-20T05:00:00Z

5x01 The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket

Season Premiere

5x01 The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket

  • 1986-01-20T05:00:00Z1h

1986-01-27T05:00:00Z

5x02 The Roommate

5x02 The Roommate

  • 1986-01-27T05:00:00Z1h

1986-02-03T05:00:00Z

5x03 Valentine's Revenge

5x03 Valentine's Revenge

  • 1986-02-03T05:00:00Z1h

1986-03-17T05:00:00Z

5x08 Tell Me a Riddle

5x08 Tell Me a Riddle

  • 1986-03-17T05:00:00Z1h

1986-04-07T05:00:00Z

5x09 The Little Sister

5x09 The Little Sister

  • 1986-04-07T05:00:00Z1h

5x10 The House of Ramon Iglesia

  • 1986-04-14T05:00:00Z1h

1986-04-21T05:00:00Z

5x11 A Flash of Green

5x11 A Flash of Green

  • 1986-04-21T05:00:00Z1h

1986-04-28T04:00:00Z

5x12 Damien

5x12 Damien

  • 1986-04-28T04:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1986-05-05T04:00:00Z

5x13 Rocket to the Moon

Season Finale

5x13 Rocket to the Moon

  • 1986-05-05T04:00:00Z1h

In 1938 New York, a dentist finds his business failing and his marriage on the rocks. He is a hen-pecked husband with little drive left for success. That is, until he starts getting involved with his lively assistant, a free spirit with a penchant for tall tales and a hidden loneliness.

1986-05-12T04:00:00Z

5x14 A Case of Libel

5x14 A Case of Libel

  • 1986-05-12T04:00:00Z1h

1986-05-19T04:00:00Z

5x15 Painting Churches

5x15 Painting Churches

  • 1986-05-19T04:00:00Z1h

1986-05-26T04:00:00Z

5x16 Roanoak (1)

5x16 Roanoak (1)

  • 1986-05-26T04:00:00Z1h

1986-06-02T04:00:00Z

5x17 Roanoak (2)

5x17 Roanoak (2)

  • 1986-06-02T04:00:00Z1h

1986-06-09T04:00:00Z

5x18 Roanoak (3)

5x18 Roanoak (3)

  • 1986-06-09T04:00:00Z1h

5x19 Sunday in the Park with George

  • 1986-06-16T04:00:00Z1h

Video production of the Pulitzer-prize winning musical stage production. In the first act, "George", a fictionalized Georges Seurat paints his lover, Dot, and "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Le Grande Jatte." Characters who become figures and vice versa walk through the story. In Act 2, George's descendant, a sculptor, comes to terms with his grandmother, Life, and Art.

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