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{{Short description|Anthology television series}}









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    Overview

    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.As part of WGBH’s development of the Descriptive Video Service (DVS), American Playhouse was one of the first U.S. television programs to air with audio description for the visually impaired on the Secondary audio program (SAP). After trialing the system during previous seasons, the 1990 season was the first to offer it as part of their wider rollout of DVS, initially through 32 member stations.WEB,www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-12-29-8903210625-story.html, Words worth 1,000 pictures, Gibson, Gwen, Chicago Tribune, 29 December 1989, en-US, 2019-04-22, NEWS,www.nytimes.com/1988/01/13/arts/new-tv-system-offers-descriptions-for-blind.html, New TV System Offers Descriptions for Blind, Molotsky, Irvin, 1988-01-13, The New York Times, 2019-04-22, en-US, 0362-4331, BOOK,books.google.com/books?id=9EOEDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Dr.+Margaret+Pfanstiehl%22&pg=PT132, Disability and Digital Television Cultures: Representation, Access, and Reception, Ellis, Katie, 2019-02-01, Routledge, 9781317627845, en,

    Episodes

    Season 1 (1982)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = 1| EpisodeNumber2 = 1| Title = The Shady Hill Kidnapping| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy =     		Who Am I This Time? (film)>Who Am I This Time?| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Ntozake ShangeFifth of July| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Lanford WilsonNorthern Lights (1978 film)>Northern Lightsamerican playhouse: northern lights (tv) - The Paley Center for Media| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Working (musical)>Working| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Oppenheimer (miniseries)>Oppenheimer (1)| DirectedBy = Barry Davis| WrittenBy = Peter PrincePeter PrincePeter PrincePeter PrincePeter PrincePeter PrincePeter PrinceThe Ballad of Gregorio Cortez| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy =

    Season 2 (1983)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = The Skin of Our Teeth| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Thorton Wilder    		Miss Lonelyhearts#1983 film>Miss Lonelyhearts| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy =

    Season 3 (1984)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = The Ghost Writer| DirectedBy = Tristram Powell| WrittenBy = Tristram Powell and Philip Roth, based on the novel by Roth    		Pudd’nhead Wilson| DirectedBy = Alan Bridges| WrittenBy = Philip H. Reisman Jr., based on the novel by Mark TwainTrue West (play)>True West| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Sam ShepardNothing but a Man| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Ernest Kinoy, adapted from the short story by Isaac Bashevis SingerThe Gin Game| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Donald L. CoburnMichael Roemer| WrittenBy = Michael Roemer The Killing Floor (1984 film)>The Killing Floor| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Heartland (film)>Heartlandamerican playhouse: heartland (tv) - The Paley Center for Media| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = City News (film)>City News| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Hughie| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Concealed Enemies (1)| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy =

    Season 4 (1984–1985)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1     		Testament (1983 film)>Testament| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Gwen Arner| WrittenBy = Morton Neal Miller and Nancy Miller, based on the short story by John D. Weaver Solomon Northup’s Odyssey| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Tomorrow (1972 film)>Tomorrow| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Go Tell It on the Mountain (film)>Go Tell It on the Mountain| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Noon Wine| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = The Joy That Kills| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Overdrawn at the Memory Bank| DirectedBy = Douglas Williams| WrittenBy = Corinne JackerThe Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = John Ford Noonan, based on his playCharlotte Forten Grimké>Charlotte Forten’s Mission: Experiment in Freedom| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Breakfast with Les and Bess| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Fae Myenne NgIlene Cooper, based on a short story by F. Scott FitzgeraldDisplaced Person (American Playhouse)>Displaced Person| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = The Europeans (1979 film)>The Europeans| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = El Norte (film)>El Norte| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984 film)>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Tennessee Williams

    Season 5 (1986)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy =     		Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1)| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Tell Me a Riddle (film)>Tell Me a Riddle| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Painting Churches| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Tina HoweSunday in the Park with George| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim

    Season 6 (1987)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = All My Sons| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Arthur Miller    		Smooth Talk| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = The Innocents Abroad| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Charley’s Aunt| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Gal Young Un>Gal Young ‘Un| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = The House of Blue Leaves (film)>The House of Blue Leaves| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = John GuareWaiting for the Moon (film)>Waiting for the Moon| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy =

    Season 7 (1988)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Strange Interlude (1)| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy =     		Lemon Sky| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Lanford WilsonPigeon Feathers and Other Stories>Pigeon Feathers| DirectedBy = Sharron Miller| WrittenBy = Jan Hartmawww.imdb.com/name/nm0366965/Billy Galvin| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = A Flash of Green| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Suspicion (1941 film)#Adaptations>Suspicion| DirectedBy = Andrew Grieve| WrittenBy = Jonathan Lynn and Barry Levinson from the 1941 screenplay1984 New York City Subway shooting#In popular culture>The Trial of Bernard Goetz| DirectedBy = Harry Moses| WrittenBy = Harry Morgan MosesThe Land of Little Rain| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Native Son (1986 film)>Native Son| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = The Big Knife (play)>The Big Knife| DirectedBy = John Jacobs| WrittenBy =

    Season 8 (1989)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = A Raisin in the Sun| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Lorraine Hansberry    		Laurie Colwin>Ask Me Again| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Stacking (film)>StackingMartin Rosen (director)>Martin Rosen| WrittenBy = My American Cousin| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Stand and Deliver| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Life Under Water| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = The Meeting (play)>The Meeting| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = A Walk in the Woods (play)>A Walk in the Woods| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Lee BlessingThe Thin Blue Line (1988 film)>The Thin Blue Line| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Imagining America| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy =

    Season 9 (1990)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Sensibility and Sense| DirectedBy = David Hugh Jones    		Richard Nelson (playwright)>Richard NelsonDon Scardino| WrittenBy = Jonathan Marc Sherman, based on his playNeema Barnette| WrittenBy = Andre’s Mother| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Terrence McNallyBloodhounds of Broadway (1989 film)>Bloodhounds of Broadway| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Gerald Gutierrez| WrittenBy = Peter Parnell

    Season 10 (1991)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1     		Into the Woods#Original Broadway production>Into the Woods| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = James Lapine, Stephen SondheimThe Grapes of Wrath (play)>The Grapes of Wrath| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy =

    Season 11 (1992–1993)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1     		Hop-Frog>Fool’s Fire| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Tales from Hollywood (play)>Tales from Hollywood| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Tru (play)>Tru| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Andre’s Mother| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Fires in the Mirror#Television film>Fires in the Mirror| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Angels in America on Broadway| DirectedBy = Tom Bywaters| WrittenBy = Tom BywatersPorgy and Bess#Television>Porgy and Bess| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Tales of the City (1993 miniseries)>Tales of the City| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Charles Lane (filmmaker)>Charles Lane| WrittenBy =

    Season 12 (1994)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1     		Tales of the City (1993 miniseries)>Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Ronald Ribman, based on the book by Warren AdlerMilan Stitt

    Season 13 (1995–1996)

    {{Episode table |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |episodes={{Episode list| EpisodeNumber = | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = The Making of Angels and Insects| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy =     		Fires in the Mirror| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Christopher Ashley| WrittenBy = Claudia Shear, based on her playPaul Fierlinger| WrittenBy = Paul FierlingerThe Beans of Egypt, Maine| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy = Passion (musical)>Passion| DirectedBy = | WrittenBy =

    Notable cast

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    Accolades

    Some of the productions won multiple Emmys: one from Robert Morse in Tru,Tru (American Playhouse)|Television Academy Outstanding Children’s Program for Displaced PersonDisplaced Person American Playhouse|Television Academy and technical achievements for The Meeting alongside many nominations.The Meeting American Playhouse|Television AcademyAcademy Award recognitions included El Norte’s nomination for Best Original Screenplay,1985|Oscars.orgRobert Benton and Peter Shaffer winning Writing Oscars®-Oscars on YouTube a Best Actress nod for Jane Alexander in Testament1984|Oscars.orgShirley MacLaine Wins Best Actress: 1984 Oscars and a Best Actor nod for Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver.1989|Oscars.orgDustin Hoffman Wins Best Actor: 1989 OscarsGolden Globe recognitions included 3 for Stand and Deliver (two for Olmos (Leading Actor) and Diamond Phillips (Supporting Actor) and one for Best Motion Picture - Drama).Stand and Deliver|Golden GlobesAmerican Playhouse also won a Peabody Award in 1990.WEB, American Playhouse, 2019-03-02,www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/american-playhouse,

    Legacy

    Episodes like Nothing but a Man, The Thin Blue Line, El Norte and Stand and Deliver were each inducted into the National Film Registry.Brief Descriptions and Expanded Essays of National Film Registry Titles | Film Registry | National Film Preservation BoardOverdrawn at the Memory Bank was featured as an episode of the cult science fiction series Mystery Science Theater 3000.WEB,www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/03/ranking-every-mst3k-episode-from-worst-to-best.html?p=6, Ranking Every MST3K Episode, From Worst to Best, Vorel, Jim, Paste (magazine), Paste, 6, April 13, 2017, April 29, 2019,archive.today/20180619043110/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/03/ranking-every-mst3k-episode-from-worst-to-best.html?p=6, June 19, 2018, WEB,www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/mst3k/260278/the-top-100-best-mst3k-episodes, The Top 100 Best MST3K Episodes, Cecchini, Mike, Den of Geek, April 15, 2017, April 29, 2019, November 16, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20201116195541/https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-top-100-best-mst3k-episodes/, live,

    References

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    External links

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