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Season 3

January 17, 198417 Episodes

EP 1

The Ghost Writer

January 17, 19841h 18m • ★ 8.0

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.

EP 2

Pudd'nhead Wilson

January 24, 19841h 30m • ★ 0.0

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

True West
EP 3

True West

January 31, 19841h 50m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 4

Nothing But a Man

February 7, 19841h 35m • ★ 0.0

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

Popular Neurotics
EP 5

Popular Neurotics

February 14, 19841h 0m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 6

The Cafeteria

February 21, 198452m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 7

Refuge

February 28, 19841h 30m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 8

The Gin Game

March 6, 19841h 0m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 9

Haunted (aka Vengeance Is Mine)

March 20, 19841h 0m • ★ 0.0

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

EP 10

The Killing Floor

April 10, 19841h 58m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 11

Heartland

April 17, 198452m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 12

City News

April 24, 19841h 5m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 13

Hughie

May 1, 19841h 0m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 14

Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion

May 7, 198455m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 15

Concealed Enemies, Part II: Accusation

May 8, 198455m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 16

Concealed Enemies, Part III: Investigation

May 9, 198455m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 17

Concealed Enemies, Part IV: Verdict

May 9, 198455m • ★ 0.0

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.