American Playhouse - Season 10

First aired: 3/15/1991 16 episodes
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Episodes

1. Into the Woods

Aired: 3/15/1991

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

2. The Grapes of Wrath

Aired: 3/22/1991

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

3. Three Hotels

Aired: 3/29/1991

An American couple, Kenneth and Barbara Hoyle, reflect on their lives as players in international business, set in hotel rooms in Morocco, the Virgin Islands, and Oaxaca, Mexico.

4. The Sunset Gang

Aired: 4/5/1991

Three stories about the Jewish elderly in Florida: in 'Yiddish', a man and a woman, both married to others, form a bond through their native language; in 'The Detective', a married couple who have grown apart come together again as they pursue a thief in the neighborhood; and in 'The Home', a woman struggles against her grown children, who want to place her in a nursing facility.

5. Signs of Life

Aired: 4/26/1991

The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.

6. The End of a Sentence

Aired: 5/3/1991

Sentenced to community service in a prison, an English professor teaches creative writing to an inmate.

7. O Pioneers!

Aired: 5/15/1991

A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning for her childhood love to return.

8. Triple Play II

Aired: 5/21/1991

Three more short films: in 'Peacemaker', a 1950s father helps his 11-year-old son overcome his fear of the A-bomb; in 'The Price of Life', the hours of your life are a currency you can buy or sell, trade or squander...; and in 'Astronomy', a mother and her young daughter search for an escape from the poverty in which they live.

9. Hot Summer Winds

Aired: 5/22/1991

A look at the domestic tension between an illiterate Japanese immigrant farmer and his educated wife in 1930s California.

10. The Plot Against Harry

Aired: 5/31/1991

Deadpan, small-time Kosher Nostra mobster Harry Plotnick goes meshugga when he gets into the catering biz with his ex-brother-in-law.

11. Darrow

Aired: 6/7/1991

American lawyer Clarence Darrow evolves from a corporate attorney to a champion of the underdog, defending labor leaders like Eugene V. Debs and later taking on high-profile cases like the Leopold & Loeb trial.

12. The Hollow Boy

Aired: 6/14/1991

A lonely German boy, whose bigoted parents want him to constantly work in their bakery, finds solace in a close-knit, musically-gifted Jewish family in the apartment across the hall.

13. Misplaced

Aired: 6/28/1991

The story of strong-minded Polish mother Halina Nowak, who desperately wants her talented son Jacek to have a life in the free world.

14. A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz

Aired: 7/26/1991

Explores the complex, passionate, and often tumultuous relationship between the iconic artist and her mentor/husband, a pivotal figure in American modernism.

15. Longtime Companion

Aired: 9/29/1991

During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterious 'gay cancer' soon turns into a major crisis as, one by one, some of the friends begin to fall ill, leaving the others to panic about who will be next. As death takes its toll, the lives of these friends are forever redefined by an unconditional display of love, hope and courage.

16. Metropolitan

Aired: 12/4/1991

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society — until they're joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.