• Air date: 26 Nov '84 7 episodes
      American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
  • List of Episodes (7)
    • 1. Testament

      26 Nov '84
    • 2. A Matter of Principle

      03 Dec '84
    • 3. Solomon Northup's Odyssey

      10 Dec '84
      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 afte
    • 4. Tomorrow

      17 Dec '84
    • 5. Go Tell It On the Mountain

      14 Jan '85
    • 6. Noon Wine

      21 Jan '85
    • 7. The Joy That Kills

      28 Jan '85
      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.