Every season of American Playhouse ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of American Playhouse!

The Shady Hill Kidnapping

King of America

Seguin

From a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken 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 screen. Susan Sarandon is new in town, a lonely itenerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Walken's Stanley when the theater group does A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the problem, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.

Who Am I This Time?

Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine

Come Along With Me

For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

Echoes and Silences

Fifth of July

The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters is a 1982 comedy drama TV movie written by Jean Shepherd and directed by Richard Bartlett.

The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters

Pilgrim Farewell

Northern lights

Medal of Honor Rag

Working

Weekend is a TV episode of American Playhouse directed by Paul Bogart.

Weekend

Private Contentment

My Palikari

Oppenheimer (1)

Oppenheimer (2)

Oppenheimer (3)

Oppenheimer (4)

Oppenheimer (5)

Oppenheimer (6)

Oppenheimer (7)

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

The Skin of Our Teeth is the 1983 biographical drama TV episode of American Playhouse TV Series.

The Skin of Our Teeth

A young Depression-era reporter is assigned to write his newspaper's advice column on the insistence of his mocking editor. Unhappy in the demeaning assignment, he begins to take an interest in one of the readers sending letters.

Miss Lonelyhearts

Family Business

Keeping On

The File on Jill Hatch (1)

The File on Jill Hatch (2)

The File on Jill Hatch (3)

For Us, the Living

Verse Person Singular

Until She Talks

Wings

The Rothko Conspiracy

The Ghostwriter

Pudd'nhead Wilson

A videotaped stage performance of Sam Shepard's play

True West

Nothing But a Man

Two young urban professionals, each with their own neuroses, make the fatal mistake one day of meeting by chance at an automatic bank teller machine and making a date for the movies.

Popular Neurotics

The Cafeteria

Refuge

The Gin Game

Haunted

The Killing Floor

Heartland

City News is an independent, American comedy film, written and directed by David Fishelson and Zoe Zinman in New York City in 1983, which was nationally broadcast on PBS in 1984, exhibited theatrically in the U.S. and Canada in 1983, and selected for 12 international film festivals in 1983-4.

City News

Hughie

Concealed Enemies (1)

Concealed Enemies (2)

Concealed Enemies (3)

Concealed Enemies (4)

Testament

A Matter of Principle

Solomon Northup's Odyssey, reissued as Half Slave, Half Free, is a 1984 American television film based on the autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The film, which aired on PBS, was directed by Gordon Parks with Avery Brooks starring as the titular character. It was the second film to be funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, following Denmark Vesey's Rebellion in 1982. Parks returned to direct the film after years of absence. He chose to work in the Deep South and to collaborate with a crew of mixed races. The film first aired on PBS on December 10, 1984 and as part of PBS's American Playhouse anthology television series in the following year. It was released on video under the title Half Slave, Half Free.

Solomon Northup's Odyssey

Tomorrow

Go Tell It On the Mountain

Noon Wine

The Joy that Kills is a 1984 television film adaptation of Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." It was directed by Tina Rathborne and co-written by Rathbone and Nancy Dyer. It was released in 1984 as a part of the PBS series American Playhouse.

The Joy That Kills

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski

Some Men Need Help

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

Breakfast with Les and Bess

Nightsongs

F. Scott Fitzgerald's comedy of a stylish young flapper (Sean Young) who chooses a husband (Lenny Von Dohlen), but finds she can't compete with his family.

Under the Biltmore Clock

Displaced Person

The Europeans

El Norte

Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part I

Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part II

Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part III

Paper Angels

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket

The Roommate

Valentine's Revenge

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part I

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part II

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part III

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part IV

Tell Me a Riddle

The Little Sister

The House of Ramon Iglesia

A Flash of Green

Damien

In 1938 New York, a dentist finds his business failing and his marriage on the rocks. He is a hen-pecked husband with little drive left for success. That is, until he starts getting involved with his lively assistant, a free spirit with a penchant for tall tales and a hidden loneliness.

Rocket to the Moon

A Case of Libel

Painting Churches

Roanoak (1)

Roanoak (2)

Roanoak (3)

Sunday in the Park with George

All My Sons

The Lawrenceville Stories 1: The Prodigious Hickey

The Wide Net

Smooth Talk

A Mistaken Charity

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

The Best Seasons of American Playhouse

The Best Seasons of American Playhouse

The Best Seasons of American Playhouse

Season 12

Season 6

Season 10

Season 3

Season 5

Season 8

Season 11

Season 2

Season 4

Season 9

Season 1

Season 7

Season 13