Episodes
All My Sons
January 19, 1987
The Lawrenceville Stories 1: The Prodigious Hickey
January 26, 1987
The Wide Net
February 2, 1987
Smooth Talk
February 9, 1987
A Mistaken Charity
February 16, 1987
Eleanor: In Her Own Words
March 9, 1987
The Innocents Abroad
March 23, 1987
Story of a Marriage (1)
April 6, 1987
Story of a Marriage (2)
April 13, 1987
Story of a Marriage (3)
April 13, 1987
A Case of Libel
May 4, 1987
Charley's Aunt
May 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
Gal Young 'Un
May 18, 1987
The House of Blue Leaves
May 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 ...
Blue Window
June 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.
Dottie
June 8, 1987
Waiting for the Moon
June 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.
