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American Playhouse: Season 2

12 episodes · first aired Jan 18, 1983

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  1. 1 The Skin of Our Teeth Jan 18, 1983 · 1h 53m The Antrobus family and their housekeeper Lilly Sabina face various global disasters, including a new ice age, a great flood, and a devastating war.
  2. 2 Miss Lonelyhearts Jan 25, 1983 · 1h 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…
  3. 3 Family Business Feb 1, 1983 · 50m Isaiah Stern is a wealthy, but dying, toy manufacturer. Once more, Stern has gathered his grown sons to revise his will. Three of the four are used to these idiosyncratic changes, and have…
  4. 4 Keeping On Feb 8, 1983 · 1h 15m A low-key drama exploring the struggles of an impoverished sharecropping family in the rural South with themes of Southern identity, morality, and family.
  5. 5 The File on Jill Hatch (1) Feb 15, 1983 · 58m A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.
  6. 6 The File on Jill Hatch (2) Feb 22, 1983 · 58m A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.
  7. 7 The File on Jill Hatch (3) Mar 1, 1983 · 58m A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.
  8. 8 For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story Mar 22, 1983 · 1h 30m During the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi, Medgar Evers rose from insurance agent to one of the most integral activists of the era. From boycotting white merchants in the mid-'50s to…
  9. 9 Verse Person Singular Mar 29, 1983 · 1h Actor Richard Kiley takes on the personae of thirteen different characters as he reads his favorite poems written in the first-person.
  10. 10 Until She Talks Apr 5, 1983 · 1h The story of a young woman imprisoned for declining to testify before a grand jury; comprised from real courtroom transcripts and based on the experiences of individuals jailed for their…
  11. 11 Wings Apr 26, 1983 · 1h Former aviatrix Emily Stilson suffers a stroke and is plunged into a world of disorientation and grief. Memories flood in between painful attempts to re-learn the basic functions of…
  12. 12 The Rothko Conspiracy May 3, 1983 · 1h A dramatization of the fight over the estate of artist Mark Rothko, who killed himself in 1970.