Starring Dan O Herlihy as Mark Twain, this PBS special was created by renowned Twain scholars.

Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.

A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologies. One brother works for a power-hungry builder...

The issue of popularity, specifically amongst the high school set, is dramatized.

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

An androgynous 'hep pixie' helps a lonely junior high student release his inner musician and join his school band.

Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the...

A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of...

Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city....

A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him...

Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young...

After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben,...

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...

Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having...

Harry is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on...

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.