Playhouse - Season 8

1. Mrs. Reinhardt

Aired: 10/30/1981

An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.

2. Last Summer's Child

Aired: 11/6/1981

A boy feels restless during a hot summer in prewar Cornwall.

3. Autumn Sunshine

Aired: 11/13/1981

4. The Grudge Fight

Aired: 11/27/1981

5. Virginia Fly Is Drowning

Aired: 12/4/1981

6. Findings on a Late Afternoon

Aired: 12/11/1981

7. Dancing Country

Aired: 12/18/1981

8. The Combination

Aired: 1/8/1982

9. A Silly Little Habit

Aired: 1/15/1982

A woman with an apparently happy and privileged life begins shoplifting.

10. Aubrey

Aired: 1/22/1982

A play about the brilliant, shocking Victorian artist Aubrey Beardsley, who died in his twenties.

11. Preview

Aired: 1/29/1982

12. Out of Step

Aired: 2/5/1982

A keen ballroom dancer begins to drink heavily when she discovers she's infertile.

13. A Shilling Life

Aired: 2/12/1982

A once-famous writer, now long out of fashion, is interviewed by a disconcerting young woman.

14. The Workshop

Aired: 2/19/1982

15. How Many Miles to Babylon?

Aired: 2/26/1982

Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.

16. The Pigman's Protege

Aired: 3/5/1982

17. A Pocketful of Dreams

Aired: 3/12/1982

18. Keeping in Touch

Aired: 3/19/1982

19. The Guest

Aired: 3/26/1982

20. The Sidmouth Letters

Aired: 4/2/1982

Shorty, an academic scavenger, believes he has tracked down some letters revealing an unexpected side to Miss Jane Austen's nature.

21. The Queen of Annagh

Aired: 4/16/1982

22. By George

Aired: 4/23/1982

23. Lunch

Aired: 4/30/1982

Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different.

24. Passing Through

Aired: 5/7/1982

25. Jake's End

Aired: 5/14/1982

26. Housewarming

Aired: 5/21/1982

27. Easy Money

Aired: 5/28/1982

At a concert, Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends.

28. Potatohead Blues

Aired: 6/4/1982

29. Irwin Shaw Triple Bill: The Man who Married a French Wife/The Monument/The Girls

Aired: 6/11/1982

30. Chains

Aired: 6/18/1982

31. Come Into the Garden, Maud

Aired: 7/7/1982

A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.

32. A Song at Twilight

Aired: 7/9/1982

A famous writer finds that a long-suppressed secret is about to be revealed by his former mistress.

33. Fraulein Else

Aired: 1/14/1983

34. Imaginary Friends

Aired: 4/1/1983

35. Possibilities

Aired: 5/20/1983