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Episode Detail: The End of a Sentence - American Playhouse

Richard Nelson's one-character comic monologue "The End of a Sentence" stars Edward Herrmann as an English professor whose political ideals are dampened after he invites a Polish dissident to speak on campus.

Episodes: The End of a Sentence - American Playhouse - 190 total Episodes

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