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Great Performances Season 9 Episodes
Season 9 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 1981 - 1981
Episode 1
Episode #9.1
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 2
Episode #9.2
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 3
Edith Wharton: Summer
Mon, Nov 9, 198190 mins
The story of a seventeen-year-old girl's early disillusionment with life followed by her accommodation to reality.
Episode 4
Edith Wharton: Looking Back
Mon, Nov 16, 198160 mins
Noted American author Edith Wharton, in her later years, returns home and reminisces about her life. This was part of a PBS Great Performances trilogy, which also included dramatizations of her novels "Summer" (starring Diane Lane and John Cullum) and "The House of Mirth" (starring Geraldine Chaplin).
Episode 5
Episode #9.5
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 6
Episode #9.6
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 7
Episode #9.7
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 8
Episode #9.8
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 9
Episode #9.9
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 10
A Lincoln Center Special: Beverly! Her Farewell Performance
Mon, Jan 5, 1981
Carol Burnett hosts a gala tribute to retiring opera soprano and former general director of the New York City Opera since 1974, Beverly Sills.
Episode 11
Episode #9.11
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 12
Episode #9.12
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 13
Episode #9.13
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 14
Episode #9.14
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 15
Episode #9.15
Tue, Feb 3, 1981
Episode 16
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
Mon, Jun 1, 198190 mins
Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.