Great Performances Season 5 Episodes

Episode 0

Episode #5.0

Sat, Feb 5, 1977

Episode 1

The Marriage of Figaro

Wed, Oct 5, 1977

Episode 2

Cavalleria Rusticana

Sat, Feb 5, 1977

Episode 3

Episode #5.3

Sat, Feb 5, 1977

Episode 4

The Arcata Promise

Wed, Nov 16, 1977

In the small town of Arcata, a successful actor made a promise to a young, attractive and vulnerable girl that he would always love her and never hurt her. But the promise was broken, and Laura leaves him and he turns to drink and plunges into alcoholism and insanity, while enjoying his past celebrated performances of Richard II.

Episode 5

Episode #5.5

Sat, Feb 5, 1977

Episode 6

Episode #5.6

Sat, Feb 5, 1977

Episode 7

Secret Service

Wed, Jan 12, 1977117 mins

Set in Richmond, Virginia on an evening in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office by posing as the wounded Confederate Captain Thorne. The spy's false orders raise the suspicions of a southern agent, who uses a local girl in love with Thorne to set a trap.

Episode 8

Dance in America: Choreography By Balanchine

Sat, Feb 5, 1977

Episode 9

Arthur Rubinstein at 90

Wed, Jan 26, 1977

Episode 11

The Planets

Wed, Feb 1, 1978

Episode 12

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Wed, Feb 8, 1978

Episode 13

All Richard Strauss Program

Wed, Feb 22, 1978

Episode 14

Count Dracula: Part 1

Wed, Mar 1, 1978

Episode 15

Count Dracula: Part 2

Wed, Mar 8, 1978

In Part 2 of "Count Dracula," the monster claims Lucy for the ranks of the undead, but he al-so gains a formidable foe: vampire expert Prof. Van Helsing.

Episode 29

Out of Our Father's House

Wed, Aug 2, 197859 mins

"Out of Our Fathers' House" comprises vignettes about six women in U.S. history, including 18th-century New England student Eliza Southgate (Carol Kane), labor organizer "Mother' Mary Jones (Jan Miner), suffragette leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Kaiulani Lee).