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Series of 54 original televised plays and classic dramas produced by public television station KCET in Los Angeles, featuring all-star talent, was broadcast nationally on the National Educational Television (NET) network and its successor PBS between 1970 and 1978.
1971
Two pathetically ordinary people waste their lives in the office of a company offering typing services.
A black comedy about a country where all criminals have been rehabilitated.
Edith Northrup and Mabel Lamston pass the time drinking up the profits in glass after glass of their spiked lemonades. They talk about their children, their husbands, and their fantastic dreams, mixing the fabrications and truths of their lives.
Story about a struggling young writer working in a New York restaurant as a counterman and a co-worker in the same place who is a waitress.
Irish theatre actor Jack MacGowran's celebrated readings from Samuel Beckett. Included are "Waiting for Godot", "Embers" and "Krapp's Last Tape".
The play deals with the interrelationship between two elderly Jewish men.
Arkady Leokum's study of the nature of prejudice centers around the encounter between a white couple, in an affluent neighborhood and the black couple to whom they are selling their house.
A theatrical family of puppets celebrate the subject of love in song, monologue, and drama. The Standwells are brother and sister hand puppeteers who perform with three other puppets in a repertory troupe based in New York.
An exceptional experimental company consisting of both puppets (from 2 to 8 feet tall) and live actors. Program includes, "The Great Warrior", about a champion who turns against those he's called in to save. "The Dead Man Rises", in which a maiden finds a drowned man and brings him back to life. And "A Man Says Goodbye to His Mother", in which a doomed soldier leaves for war in a far-off land.
Two couples meet for an evening of Monopoly -- and wrecked social amenities by truth telling.
An unhappy rich old man tries to buy beauty by purchasing a painting from a young artist.
The golden age of radio drama lives again in this re-creation of a studio broadcast about the Devil's plan to kill off Santa Claus.
Satire about a slice of white society that crumbles when the black work force mysteriously disappears. With one exception (the reporter), the actors are blacks in white-face, members of the Negro Ensemble Company. Playwright Douglas Turner Ward appears as the mayor.
(1) A Marriage Proposal: The hot tempers of two Russian landowners almost ruin a love match. (2) The Bear (originally The Boor): A widow clashes with a soldier over a debt.
In 17th-century Massachusetts, a vengeful witch turns a scarecrow into a gentleman. His mission: Win the heart of a rival's fiancee.
A celebration of the human spirit, examining the frustrations and hopes of a Jewish family struggling to survive the Depression in the Bronx -- and even live a little in the bargain.
A socialite bride-to-be is aroused from her slumber of boredom by a beach-combing free spirit.
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1970
Dramatization of the 1865 Andersonville trial where thirteen thousand Union prisoners died from starvation and maltreatment.
Story of people who make it and the people who don't and how each affects the other.
Set during the South American Wars and the story of the political hostages whose lives depend on a stranger's decision. The stranger -- a young Spanish officer who has become a follower of the revolutionary leader, Simon Bolivar -- can save their lives and his own by revealing the whereabouts of Bolivar to the Spanish conquerors.
A portrait of a tormented Irish poet who seeks at least economic salvation from an American lecture-reading tour.
A kaleidoscopic view of the first 30 years in 20th century America.
