17 episodes

American Playhouse - Season 3

First aired Jan 17, 1984Season 3

Browse all 17 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Ghost Writer

8.0
Jan 17, 198478 min1 votes

Aspiring writer Nathan Zuckerman visits the secluded home of his literary idol, E.I. Lonoff. While there, Zuckerman becomes entangled in the author's complex domestic life and becomes captivated by a mysterious young woman.

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Episode 2

Pudd'nhead Wilson

NR
Jan 24, 198490 min

A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.

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Episode 3

True West

NR
Jan 31, 1984110 min

Estranged brothers, screenwriter Austin and drifter Lee, clash while staying at their mother's house in suburban Southern California, leading to a chaotic role reversal that explores themes of identity, family, and the American Dream.

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Episode 4

Nothing But a Man

NR
Feb 7, 198495 min

Railroad laborer Duff Anderson struggles to maintain his dignity and marriage to a preacher's daughter in the racially segregated South.

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Episode 5

Popular Neurotics

NR
Feb 14, 198460 min

Two young urban professionals, Lynne and Murray, meet by happenstance and begin an on-again, off-again relationship in which they struggle to transcend modern-day neuroses concerning courtship.

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Episode 6

The Cafeteria

NR
Feb 21, 198452 min

Esther Mirkin, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.

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Episode 7

Refuge

NR
Feb 28, 198490 min

On a remote island off the coast of Maine, four people attempt to relax but the isolated refuge fails to protect them from their own insecurities and jealousies.

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Episode 8

The Gin Game

NR
Mar 6, 198460 min

Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey reside at a nursing home, and they strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin rummy, and engage in lengthy conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world.

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Episode 9

Haunted (aka Vengeance Is Mine)

NR
Mar 20, 198460 min

A recently divorced woman returns to her dysfunctional Rhode Island family home and gets involved in drama with her neighbors.

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Episode 10

The Killing Floor

NR
Apr 10, 1984118 min

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.

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Episode 11

Heartland

NR
Apr 17, 198452 min

Miraculous occurrences happen to people throughout the world every day. God's Miracles presents personal experiences as well as unvarnished scientific and factual evidence, allowing the viewer to draw their own conclusions as to whether it is possible for God to grant miracles.

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Episode 12

City News

NR
Apr 24, 198465 min

The struggles of Tom Domino, publisher and editor of a seemingly doomed, underground newspaper in New York City's East Village are chronicled in this dark comedy.

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Episode 13

Hughie

NR
May 1, 198460 min

In the lobby of a small hotel in midtown New York, small-time hustler Erie Smith talks to the hotel's new night clerk Charlie Hughes, lamenting how Smith's luck has worsened since the death of Hughie, Hughes' predecessor.

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Episode 14

Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion

NR
May 7, 198455 min

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

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Episode 15

Concealed Enemies, Part II: Accusation

NR
May 8, 198455 min

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

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Episode 16

Concealed Enemies, Part III: Investigation

NR
May 9, 198455 min

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

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Episode 17

Concealed Enemies, Part IV: Verdict

NR
May 9, 198455 min

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.