American Playhouse - Season 6

1. All My Sons

Aired: 1/19/1987

2. The Lawrenceville Stories 1: The Prodigious Hickey

Aired: 1/26/1987

3. The Wide Net

Aired: 2/2/1987

4. Smooth Talk

Aired: 2/9/1987

5. A Mistaken Charity

Aired: 2/16/1987

6. Eleanor: In Her Own Words

Aired: 3/9/1987

7. The Innocents Abroad

Aired: 3/23/1987

8. Story of a Marriage (1)

Aired: 4/6/1987

9. Story of a Marriage (2)

Aired: 4/13/1987

10. Story of a Marriage (3)

Aired: 4/13/1987

11. A Case of Libel

Aired: 5/4/1987

12. Charley's Aunt

Aired: 5/11/1987

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney. - Written by Ed

14. The House of Blue Leaves

Aired: 5/25/1987

Zoo attendant Artie Shaughnessy dreams of being a successful songwriter. What his mistress, Bunny Flingus, who lives downstairs from his Queens apartment won't tell him -- and what his insane wife, Bananas, tries to get through to him -- is that Artie's songs stink. On Oct. 4, 1965, the day Pope Paul visits New York City, Bunny convinces Artie to call his old school buddy Billy Einhorn, a famous film director from Los Angeles, to finagle a job writing music for Billy's movies. (After all, Bunny feels that with the Pope here, there must be "miracles in the air.") But ...

15. Blue Window

Aired: 6/1/1987

In an affluent area of downtown New York City, a Sunday evening dinner party is taking place. Hosted by Libby, an insecure thirty-something widow who lost her husband in an unfortunate accident, her guest of honor is downstairs neighbor Alice, a successful novelist, and Alice's lesbian lover, Boo, a family therapist. The other guests are Griever, Libby's best friend from group therapy; Norbert, Libby's gentle skydiving instructor; Tom, an old high-school boyfriend of Libby's now working as a jazz musician and composer, and Emily, Tom's current live-in girlfriend.

16. Dottie

Aired: 6/8/1987

17. Waiting for the Moon

Aired: 6/15/1987

Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.

13. Gal Young 'Un

Aired: 5/18/1987