The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens' makes a magical and lasting change in the lives of an imaginative 12-year-old boy and a loving young woman.
Aired: Jan 11, 1982John Cheever's comedy of a supposedly kidnapped 5-year-old boy. At first the ...
Aired: Jan 18, 1982Hot-tempered Greek immigrant Andreas arrives in America in 1915. He finds wor...
Aired: Jan 25, 1982Seguin was not at the Alamo. All defender at the Alamo were killed. Seguin li...
Aired: Feb 1, 1982From a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken is a shy hardware sto...
5. Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine
Aired: Feb 8, 1982The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens'...
Aired: Feb 15, 1982Mabel Lederer is a recently widowed woman who sells all her belongings and le...
7. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Aired: Feb 22, 1982A unique award-winning tale of the African-American woman's journey in America.
8. Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
Aired: Mar 1, 1982"Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dr...
Aired: Mar 8, 1982Ken Talley is 32, strong, goodlooking and a Vietnam vet with both legs shot o...
10. The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
Aired: Mar 15, 1982Matt Dillon plays a young Jean Shepherd (author and narrator of A Christmas S...
Aired: Mar 22, 1982A woman suffering from terminal cancer determines to resolve several relation...
Aired: Mar 29, 1982On a North Dakota wheat farm at the turn of the 20th century, Ray Sorenson bu...
Aired: Apr 5, 1982A Medal of Honor-winning Vietnam veteran has difficulty readjusting to civili...
Aired: Apr 12, 1982A musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's book celebrating the lives of everyday...
Aired: Apr 19, 1982Weekend is a TV episode of American Playhouse directed by Paul Bogart.
Aired: Apr 27, 1982A young soldier goes home to attend his mother's funeral just before being sh...
Aired: May 4, 1982A middle-aged Greek immigrant visits his native village, with his American-bo...
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Aired: Jun 29, 1982The retelling of an incident in Gonzales, Texas in 1901 revolving around a st...
