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American Playhouse Season 3 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Tuesday, January 17, 1984

Ended: Wednesday, May 9, 1984

When does American Playhouse Season 3 come out?

American Playhouse Season 3 premiered Tuesday, January 17, 1984 on PBS and ended Wednesday, May 9, 1984. The season has 17 episodes.

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American Playhouse Season 3 release schedule

American Playhouse Season 3 episode release dates
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1. The Ghost Writer

Aspiring writer Nathan Zuckerman visits the secluded home of his literary idol, E.I. Lonoff. While there, Zuckerman becomes entangled in the author's complex domestic life and becomes captivated by a mysterious young woman.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

2. Pudd'nhead Wilson

A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

3. True West

Estranged brothers, screenwriter Austin and drifter Lee, clash while staying at their mother's house in suburban Southern California, leading to a chaotic role reversal that explores themes of identity, family, and the American Dream.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

4. Nothing But a Man

Railroad laborer Duff Anderson struggles to maintain his dignity and marriage to a preacher's daughter in the racially segregated South.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

5. Popular Neurotics

Two young urban professionals, Lynne and Murray, meet by happenstance and begin an on-again, off-again relationship in which they struggle to transcend modern-day neuroses concerning courtship.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

6. The Cafeteria

Esther Mirkin, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

7. Refuge

On a remote island off the coast of Maine, four people attempt to relax but the isolated refuge fails to protect them from their own insecurities and jealousies.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

8. The Gin Game

Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey reside at a nursing home, and they strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin rummy, and engage in lengthy conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

9. Haunted (aka Vengeance Is Mine)

A recently divorced woman returns to her dysfunctional Rhode Island family home and gets involved in drama with her neighbors.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

10. The Killing Floor

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

11. Heartland

Miraculous occurrences happen to people throughout the world every day. God's Miracles presents personal experiences as well as unvarnished scientific and factual evidence, allowing the viewer to draw their own conclusions as to whether it is possible for God to grant miracles.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

12. City News

The struggles of Tom Domino, publisher and editor of a seemingly doomed, underground newspaper in New York City's East Village are chronicled in this dark comedy.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

13. Hughie

In the lobby of a small hotel in midtown New York, small-time hustler Erie Smith talks to the hotel's new night clerk Charlie Hughes, lamenting how Smith's luck has worsened since the death of Hughie, Hughes' predecessor.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

14. Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

Monday · 42 years ago

15. Concealed Enemies, Part II: Accusation

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

16. Concealed Enemies, Part III: Investigation

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

Wednesday · 42 years ago

17. Concealed Enemies, Part IV: Verdict Finale

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

Wednesday · 42 years ago

American Playhouse Season 3 guest stars

  • Mark Linn-Baker

    Mark Linn-Baker

    Nathan Zuckerman

  • Sam Wanamaker

    Sam Wanamaker

    E.I. Lonoff

  • Claire Bloom

    Claire Bloom

    Hope Lonoff

  • MacIntyre Dixon

    MacIntyre Dixon

    Dr. Zuckerman

  • Rose Arrick

    Rose Arrick

    Mrs. Zuckerman

  • Paulette Smit

    Amy Bellette

  • Joseph Wiseman

    Joseph Wiseman

    Judge Wapter

  • Patricia Pellows

    Mrs. Wapter

  • Cecile Mann

    Nurse

  • Harriet Wilson

    Taxi Driver

  • Ralph G. Morse

    Writer

  • Ken Howard

    Ken Howard

    Pudd'nhead Wilson

  • Lise Hilboldt

    Lise Hilboldt

    Roxana

  • Steven Weber

    Steven Weber

    Tom Driscoll

  • Nicholas Kadi

    Nicholas Kadi

    Angelo Cappella

  • Lori Kerfoot

    Effie Howard

American Playhouse Season 3 FAQ

When does American Playhouse Season 3 come out?

American Playhouse Season 3 premiered Tuesday, January 17, 1984 on PBS.

How many episodes are in American Playhouse Season 3?

American Playhouse Season 3 has 17 episodes.

Are new episodes of American Playhouse Season 3 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the American Playhouse Season 3 finale?

The American Playhouse Season 3 finale (Episode 17) aired Wednesday, May 9, 1984.

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