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Episode Detail: King of America - American Playhouse

B.J. Merholz' "King of America" centers on a Greek immigrant (Michael Welden) and his conflict with an exploitative labor agent. Mekakis: Larry Atlas. Markos: Andreas Katsulas.

Episodes: King of America - American Playhouse - 190 total Episodes

9/17/1999: An American Love Story: We Were Never Ozzie and Harriet
9/17/1999: An American Love Story: It's My Job
9/16/1999: An American Love Story: Marion Truth
9/16/1999: An American Love Story: True Love
9/15/1999: An American Love Story: The Devil You Know
9/15/1999: An American Love Story: Chaney and the Boy
9/14/1999: An American Love Story: It's Another Year and I Ain't Gone
9/14/1999: An American Love Story: I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up
9/13/1999: An American Love Story: A Piece of the Puzzle Is Missing
9/13/1999: An American Love Story: Welcome to America
Drawn from Memory
Passion
Women and Wallace
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
Wings
The Trial of Bernhard Goetz
The Trial of Bernhard Goetz
Until She Talks
All God's Dangers
Three Hotels
La Carpa
Land of Little Rain
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Concealed Enemies
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
My Palikari
The File on Jill Hatch
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Long Shadows
Popular Neurotics
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Blown Sideways Through Life
Story of a Marriage
Keeping On
A Walk in the Woods
Roanoak
Sensibility and Sense
Refuge
Separation
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Haunted
Concealed Enemies
Imagining America
City News
Fool's Fire
Hughie
Long Day's Journey into Night
Painting Churches
Pilgrim, Farewell
Story of a Marriage
The Trial of Bernhard Goetz
Andre's Mother
A Case of Libel
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
The Silence at Bethany
Strange Interlude
The Hollow Boy
Triple Play II
Strange Interlude
Tru
Hallelujah
Any Friend of Nicholas Nickelby Is a Friend of Mine
Lemon Sky
The Revolt of Mother; Pigeon Feathers
The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
Paper Angels
Story of a Marriage
Concealed Enemies
Life Under Water
Roanoak
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Noon Wine
Sunday in the Park with George
Lethal Innocence
The Grapes of Wrath
The Sunset Gang
Medal of Honor Rag
A Mistaken Charity
Oppenheimer
The House of Ramon Iglesia
Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson
The True Story of Gregorio Cortez
Displaced Person
For Us, the Living
Strange Interlude
True West
Concealed Enemies
The File on Jill Hatch
The Killing Floor
Suspicion
Verse Person Singular
Surviving Desire
An Enemy of the People
Blue Window
The Cafeteria
Story of a Marriage
Story of a Marriage
Big Time
Concealed Enemies
The Rothko Conspiracy
Story of a Marriage
Oppenheimer
A Raisin in the Sun
Hot Summer Winds
Break of Dawn
The Sunset Gang
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Mrs. Cage
The File on Jill Hatch
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Concealed Enemies
Dottie
Come Along with Me
Some Men Need Help
Strange Interlude
The Big Knife
Concealed Enemies
Rocket to the Moon
The Roommate
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Private Contentment
Oppenheimer
The Return of Hickey
Hyde in Hollywood
The End of a Sentence
A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
Tales from Hollywood
The Prodigious Hickey
Roanoak
Under the Biltmore Clock
The Wide Net
The Beginning of the Firm
Damien
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The House of Blue Leaves
Journey into Genius
Miss Lonelyhearts
The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
Seguin
Story of a Marriage
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Charley's Aunt
Fires in the Mirror
Family Business
Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
Valentine's Revenge
Ask Me Again
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Roanoak
Story of a Marriage
Breakfast with Les and Bess
I Never Sang for My Father
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Oppenheimer
The Skin of Our Teeth
Who Am I This Time?
The Prisoners of Inertia
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
The Meeting
Oppenheimer
Love and Other Sorrows
A Matter of Principle
Triple Play
Eleanor: In Her Own Words
The Gin Game
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Working
The Fifth of July
The Joy That Kills
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Weekend
Darrow
O Pioneers!
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
The Ghost Writer
All My Sons
Into the Woods
Zora Is My Name!
The Star Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski
King of America
Charlotte Forten's Mission
The Sunset Gang
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Premiered: 1982, on PBS
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Premise: 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 Wilder, James Baldwin and Stephen Sondheim. Perhaps the most memorable (and controversial) presentation: `Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City,' which won a Peabody Award.

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