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American Playhouse is an American anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). [1] [2] [3] Overview. It premiered on January 12, 1982, with The Shady Hill Kidnapping, written and narrated by John Cheever and directed by Paul Bogart.
American Playhouse: With Jeffrey DeMunn, Elizabeth Franz, Edward Herrmann, Sada Thompson. Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- 2 min
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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.
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One of PBS's most distinguished series, mounting superb dramas and musicals by the likes of (to name just a few) Eugene O'Neill, John Cheever, Lanford Wilson, Mark Twain, Thornton...
A middle-aged Greek immigrant visits his native village, with his American-born son in tow. The older finds that the place he remembered as paradise on earth now seems like a desolate wasteland, while the son, who has mede this journey reluctantly, falls in love with his ancestral homeland.
Season 9 of American Playhouse premiered on March 7, 1990. American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
