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Episode Detail: The Joy That Kills - American Playhouse

"The Joy That Kills" centers on a woman (Frances Conroy) who lives vicariously through her husband's tales of travel and slides of faraway places. Brently: Jeffrey DeMunn. Dr. LeBrun: Patrick Horgan. Maggie: Rosalind Cash.

Episodes: American Playhouse - 195 total Episodes

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Any Friend of Nicholas Nickelby Is a Friend of Mine
Blue Window
The Cafeteria
Concealed Enemies
Dottie
Family Business
Hughie
Lemon Sky
Long Day's Journey into Night
The Meeting
A Mistaken Charity
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
The Prodigious Hickey
The Revolt of Mother; Pigeon Feathers
Roanoak
Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
Come Along with Me
Some Men Need Help
Story of a Marriage
Story of a Marriage
Strange Interlude
Under the Biltmore Clock
Valentine's Revenge
The Wide Net
Ask Me Again
The Beginning of the Firm
The Big Knife
Big Time
Concealed Enemies
Concealed Enemies
Damien
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
The House of Blue Leaves
The House of Ramon Iglesia
Love and Other Sorrows
Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson
A Matter of Principle
Painting Churches
Paper Angels
Pilgrim, Farewell
Roanoak
Rocket to the Moon
The Roommate
The Rothko Conspiracy
Story of a Marriage
Story of a Marriage
Story of a Marriage
Story of a Marriage
The Trial of Bernhard Goetz
Triple Play
The True Story of Gregorio Cortez
Andre's Mother
Breakfast with Les and Bess
A Case of Libel
Concealed Enemies
Displaced Person
Eleanor: In Her Own Words
For Us, the Living
The Gin Game
I Never Sang for My Father
Journey into Genius
Life Under Water
Miss Lonelyhearts
Oppenheimer
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Private Contentment
A Raisin in the Sun
The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
Roanoak
Seguin
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Story of a Marriage
Strange Interlude
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
True West
Working
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Charley's Aunt
Concealed Enemies
The Fifth of July
The File on Jill Hatch
The Joy That Kills
The Killing Floor
Noon Wine
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
The Return of Hickey
The Silence at Bethany
The Skin of Our Teeth
Strange Interlude
Sunday in the Park with George
Suspicion
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Verse Person Singular
Weekend
Who Am I This Time?
Lethal Innocence
Surviving Desire
The Grapes of Wrath
The Hollow Boy
Hot Summer Winds
Hyde in Hollywood
Darrow
An Enemy of the People
O Pioneers!
Three Hotels
Break of Dawn
The End of a Sentence
A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
The Prisoners of Inertia
Triple Play II
Strange Interlude
The Sunset Gang
The Sunset Gang
Tales from Hollywood
Tru
Fires in the Mirror
La Carpa
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Hallelujah
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Long Shadows
Ethan Frome
Blown Sideways Through Life
Drawn from Memory
Passion
Safe
Medal of Honor Rag
Haunted
Popular Neurotics
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Land of Little Rain
Women and Wallace
Into the Woods
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
Wings
The Trial of Bernhard Goetz
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Story of a Marriage
Mrs. Cage
The Ghost Writer
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
All My Sons
Zora Is My Name!
Concealed Enemies
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Roanoak
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Concealed Enemies
The Trial of Bernhard Goetz
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Star Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski
My Palikari
Sensibility and Sense
Imagining America
Refuge
Until She Talks
A Thousand Pieces of Gold
The File on Jill Hatch
City News
King of America
The File on Jill Hatch
Separation
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Fool's Fire
Charlotte Forten's Mission
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Feud
All God's Dangers
The Sunset Gang
Keeping On
A Walk in the Woods
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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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