American Playhouse Season 6 Episodes

Episode 1

All My Sons

Mon, Jan 19, 1987

Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years. Love and death play equal roles in determining the outcome of events.

Episode 2

The Prodigious Hickey

Mon, Jan 26, 198760 mins

Adapted from Owen Johnson's "The Lawrenceville Stories" that are set in the prestigious Lawrenceville School in 1905. In this tale, chief prankster William Hicks comes up with a scheme to make his shy, unpopular roommate a legend.

Episode 3

The Wide Net

Mon, Feb 2, 198755 mins

Episode 4

A Mistaken Charity

Mon, Feb 16, 1987

Two elderly, impoverished women are forced from the family farm by well-meaning neighbors. Ensconced at a "Home for Elderly Ladies", they are miserable and begin their journey back home.

Episode 5

Eleanor: In Her Own Words

Mon, Mar 9, 1987

A one-woman show featuring Lee Remick as former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who gives forth with her views - many of them controversial at the time and which infuriated the right wing of both parties, as they still do today - on integration, women's rights, communism, and other important subjects of the day.

Episode 6

The Innocents Abroad

Mon, Mar 23, 1987

Reporter Mark Twain (Craig Wasson) tours Europe and the Holy Land for a San Francisco newspaper in 1867.

Episode 7

Charley's Aunt

Mon, May 11, 1987

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney. - Written by Ed

Episode 8

The House of Blue Leaves

Mon, May 25, 1987113 mins

Zoo attendant Artie Shaughnessy dreams of being a successful songwriter. What his mistress, Bunny Flingus, who lives downstairs from his Queens apartment won't tell him -- and what his insane wife, Bananas, tries to get through to him -- is that Artie's songs stink. On Oct. 4, 1965, the day Pope Paul visits New York City, Bunny convinces Artie to call his old school buddy Billy Einhorn, a famous film director from Los Angeles, to finagle a job writing music for Billy's movies. (After all, Bunny feels that with the Pope here, there must be "miracles in the air.") But before Artie can reach out to Billy, Artie's son, Ronnie, goes AWOL from Fort Dix, secretly preparing to blow up His Holiness at Yankee Stadium. Instead, when the bomb explodes prematurely, the victims include a deaf film starlet and two Sisters of Charity ... but no Pope.

Episode 9

Blue Window

Mon, Jun 1, 1987

In an affluent area of downtown New York City, a Sunday evening dinner party is taking place. Hosted by Libby, an insecure thirty-something widow who lost her husband in an unfortunate accident, her guest of honor is downstairs neighbor Alice, a successful novelist, and Alice's lesbian lover, Boo, a family therapist. The other guests are Griever, Libby's best friend from group therapy; Norbert, Libby's gentle skydiving instructor; Tom, an old high-school boyfriend of Libby's now working as a jazz musician and composer, and Emily, Tom's current live-in girlfriend.

Episode 10

Dottie

Mon, Jun 8, 1987

Dottie, a middle-aged woman leading a reclusive life who suffers from agoraphobia, the fear of open spaces, is forced to confront her illness when she must make the difficult journey to travel to see her estranged sister, Agnes, who is dying of leukemia.

Episode 11

Waiting for the Moon

Mon, Jun 15, 1987

Episode 15

Gal Young 'Un

Mon, May 18, 1987