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- A Norwegian doctor discovers that the source of the town's medicinal waters has become poisonous.
- Events leading up to Sweyn Forkbeard's invasion of England in AD 1013.
- Based on the famous play, 'Home' relates the conversations and musings of four seniors, two seemingly upper class men and two seemingly working class women, who may or may not be inmates at a mental institution.
- In 1990, the United States government is controlled by a youthful administration who decrees that middle-aged people are a drain on resources and orders them into detention camps, where they will be killed when they reach the age of 65. Five confined artists nearing the end of their lives discuss their fate.
- Christopher Fry's verse drama of four prisoners in an imaginary war.
- A poetic drama that explores the paradoxes of the master-slave relationship.
- A Japanese film that follows the experiences of a psychiatrist who accidentally revives his buried memory of a horrible wartime experience.
- Singer-actress Lotte Lenya offers a tribute to her late composer husband.
- The story of the Wright Brothers' personal lives, and their labors in designing, building and testing airplanes.
- When the United States government ignores the treaties it signed with the Cherokee Indian tribe, their chief attempts to litigate the issue in the Georgia courts. Unsuccessful, the tribe is forcibly relocated to Oklahoma, losing 4000 people in the long march that became known as "The Trail of Tears".
- Modern retelling of the Greek legend of Orestes, based on an off-Broadway play.
- An offbeat story of David Silver's search for America, including travels to New York, a Hare Krishna gathering and Ellis Island. He eventually goes to Washington, D.C. where a huge anti-war protest is being held, attended by Pete Seeger and Abbie Hoffman among others. The strange piece includes tongue-in-cheek advertisements for something called "America, Inc." and narration by Jean Shepherd.
- In 1754, the Royal Governor of Virginia orders young George Washington to build a road to the Ohio River, enforce Virginia's claims to the Ohio River Valley and defend a small British fort against French invaders. When Washington and his men arrive at the post, they discovers that it had fallen to French colonial forces. Although his small army is inexperienced and outnumbered, Washington chooses to attack the enemy and he soon learns that war is not just a manly adventure and actions can have dire consequences - such as igniting the French and Indian War.
- A modern folklore tale about a highly imaginative, fantasy-bound youth and his search for a troll.
- In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
- A religious devout woman falls in love with a married man.
- Helen Hayes recreates some of her most famous stage roles, such as Mary Stuart in "Mary of Scotland", Queen Victoria in "Victoria Regina", Nora Melody in "A Touch of the Poet" and Grandma in "The American Dream".
- Five of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales (The Golden Goose, The Blue Light, The Clever Gretel, The Goose Girl and The Bremen Town Musicians) are told using mime, music and imagination instead of props and costumes.
- This episode features two wildly different segments. In the first, ten short plays exposing the devastating effects of pollution are performed, including "The Beautiful Fish" about a couple's unhappy experience fishing in the Hudson River; "Play for Trees" concerning two pine trees about to be chopped down for Christmas and "Kissing Sweet" about industrial pollution. In the second segment Gwen Verdon and Cyril Ritchard read pieces written by Lewis Carroll, including a portion of "Alice in Wonderland".
- Adaptation of the 1943 play traces the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe from a youngster penning escapist fiction to the formidable writer striking a blow against slavery in "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
- Two short plays are featured in this episode. In the first, a widow struggles to keep her family from splintering; in the second, a secretary who is sent to a lonely apartment to take her boss's dictation from a tape recording is terrified by what she encounters.
- A dramatization adapted from the works of Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Max Von Sydow reads autobiographical writings and introduces vignettes from "The Father," "Miss Julie" and "The Bond."
- Based on Colette's autobiographical novel "La Maison de Claudine (1922) this drama portrays the French writer's turbulent years of adolescence.
- A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.
- Two infants in their baby carriages in Central Park discuss their doubts and satisfactions while their grown-ups pursue selfish interests; three youngsters run away from home, only to discover that their bus driver and his passenger are their parents.
- Poet Archibald MacLeish's play, written for his hometown's bicentennial celebration in June 1966. A boy who hates living in Conway wants to leave town forever. By having examine the town's past, MacLeish re-creates major events of the town history.
- A fictionalized account of the March 13, 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese on a New York City street while 38 of her neighbors watched but did not notify police.
- A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother (Uncle Vanya) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself. Sonya, the professor's daughter, who is about the same age as his new wife, also lives on the estate. The professor is pompous, vain, and irritable. He calls the doctor (Astrov) to treat his gout, only to send him away without seeing him. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. The presence of Yelena introduces a bit of sexual tension into the household. Astrov and Uncle Vanya both fall in love with Yelena; she spurns them both. Meanwhile, Sonya is in love with Astrov, who fails even to notice her. Finally, when the professor announces he wants to sell the estate, Vanya, whose admiration for the man died with his sister, tries to kill him.
- A Concert on Sacred Music by Duke Ellington, from the Grace Cathedral, seat of the Episcopal Archdiocese of San Francisco.
- Two short Tennessee Williams plays: 'Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen' and 'I Can't Imagine Tomorrow.'
- 1964–1972TV Episode
- 1964–19721h 30mTV EpisodeThe last days of Christ, from the raising of Lazarus from the dead through the Last Supper, his trail before Pilate, crucifixion and resurrection.
- In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.