American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Shady Hill Kidnapping | 1982-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | King of America | 1982-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Seguin | 1982-01-26 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Who Am I This Time? | 1982-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby is a Friend of Mine | 1982-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Come Along with Me | 1982-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf | 1982-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Echoes and Silences | 1982-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | The Fifth of July | 1982-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters | 1982-03-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Pilgrim Farewell | 1982-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Northern Lights | 1982-03-30 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Medal of Honor Rag | 1982-04-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Working | 1982-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | Weekend | 1982-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | Private Contentment | 1982-04-27 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | My Palikari | 1982-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | Oppenheimer: Part 1 | 1982-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | Oppenheimer: Part 2 | 1982-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | Oppenheimer: Part 3 | 1982-05-25 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | Oppenheimer: Part 4 | 1982-06-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | Oppenheimer: Part 5 | 1982-06-08 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | Oppenheimer: Part 6 | 1982-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | Oppenheimer: Part 7 | 1982-06-22 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | 1982-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | The Skin of Our Teeth | 1983-01-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Miss Lonelyhearts | 1983-01-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Family Business | 1983-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Keeping On | 1983-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | The File on Jill Hatch: Part 1 | 1983-02-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | The File on Jill Hatch: Part 2 | 1983-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | The File on Jill Hatch: Part 3 | 1983-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | For Us, the Living | 1983-03-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Verse Person Singular | 1983-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Until She Talks | 1983-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | Wings | 1983-04-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | The Rothko Conspiracy | 1983-05-03 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | The Ghost Writer | 1984-01-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Pudd'nhead Wilson | 1984-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | True West | 1984-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Nothing But a Man | 1984-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Popular Neurotics | 1984-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | The Cafeteria | 1984-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Refuge | 1984-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | The Gin Game | 1984-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Haunted | 1984-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | The Killing Floor | 1984-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | Heartland | 1984-04-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 12 | City News | 1984-04-24 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 13 | Hughie | 1984-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 14 | Concealed Enemies: Part 1 | 1984-05-07 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 15 | Concealed Enemies: Part 2 | 1984-05-07 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 16 | Concealed Enemies: Part 3 | 1984-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 17 | Concealed Enemies: Part 4 | 1984-05-09 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Testament | 1984-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | A Matter of Principle | 1984-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Solomon Northup's Odyssey | 1984-12-10 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Tomorrow | 1984-12-17 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | 1985-01-14 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | Noon Wine | 1985-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | The Joy That Kills | 1985-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | Overdrawn at the Memory Bank | 1985-02-04 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski | 1985-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | Some Men Need Help | 1985-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 11 | Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom | 1985-02-25 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 12 | Breakfast with Les and Bess | 1985-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 13 | Nightsongs | 1985-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 14 | Under the Biltmore Clock | 1985-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 15 | Displaced Person | 1985-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 16 | The Europeans | 1985-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 17 | El Norte | 1985-05-20 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 18 | Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part 1 | 1985-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 19 | Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part 2 | 1985-06-03 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 20 | Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part 3 | 1985-06-10 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 21 | Paper Angels | 1985-06-17 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 22 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1985-06-24 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket | 1986-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | The Roommate | 1986-01-27 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Valentine's Revenge | 1986-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 1 | 1986-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 2 | 1986-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 3 | 1986-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 4 | 1986-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | Tell Me a Riddle | 1986-03-17 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | The Little Sister | 1986-04-07 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | The House of Ramon Iglesia | 1986-04-14 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 11 | A Flash of Green | 1986-04-21 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 12 | Damien | 1986-04-28 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 13 | Rocket to the Moon | 1986-05-05 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 14 | A Case of Libel | 1986-05-12 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 15 | Painting Churches | 1986-05-19 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 16 | Roanoak: Part 1 | 1986-05-26 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 17 | Roanoak: Part 2 | 1986-06-02 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 18 | Roanoak: Part 3 | 1986-06-09 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 19 | Sunday in the Park with George | 1986-06-16 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | All My Sons | 1987-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | The Prodigious Hickey | 1987-01-26 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | The Wide Net | 1987-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | Smooth Talk | 1987-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | A Mistaken Charity | 1987-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Eleanor: In Her Own Words | 1987-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | The Innocents Abroad | 1987-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | Story of a Marriage: Part 1 | 1987-04-06 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 9 | Story of a Marriage: Part 2 | 1987-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 10 | Story of a Marriage: Part 3 | 1987-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 11 | A Case of Libel | 1987-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 12 | Charley's Aunt | 1987-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 13 | Gal Young 'Un | 1987-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 14 | The House of Blue Leaves | 1987-05-25 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 15 | Blue Window | 1987-06-01 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 16 | Dottie | 1987-06-08 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 17 | Waiting for the Moon | 1987-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | Strange Interlude: Part 1 | 1988-01-18 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | Strange Interlude: Part 2 | 1988-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | Strange Interlude: Part 3 | 1988-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 4 | The Return of Hickey | 1988-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 5 | Lemon Sky | 1988-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 6 | The Revolt of Mother | 1988-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 7 | Pigeon Feathers | 1988-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 8 | Billy Galvin | 1988-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 9 | A Flash of Green | 1988-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 10 | Journey Into Genius | 1988-04-06 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 11 | Suspicion | 1988-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 12 | The Trial of Bernard Goetz | 1988-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 13 | I Never Sang for My Father | 1988-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 14 | Native Son | 1988-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 15 | The Big Knife | 1988-07-27 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 1 | A Raisin in the Sun | 1989-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 2 | Ask Me Again | 1989-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 3 | Stacking | 1989-02-15 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 4 | My American Cousin | 1989-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 5 | Love and Other Sorrows | 1989-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 6 | Stand and Deliver | 1989-03-15 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 7 | The Silence at Bethany | 1989-03-22 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 8 | Life Under Water | 1989-04-12 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 9 | The Diaries of Adam and Eve | 1989-04-26 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 10 | The Meeting | 1989-05-03 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 11 | Big Time | 1989-05-17 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 12 | Land of Little Rain | 1989-05-31 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 13 | The Thin Blue Line | 1989-05-24 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 14 | Imagining America | 1989-06-07 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 1 | Sensibility and Sense | 1990-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 2 | Women and Wallace | 1990-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 3 | Zora is My Name! | 1990-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 4 | Andre's Mother | 1990-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 5 | Bloodhounds of Broadway | 1990-05-23 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 6 | Hyde in Hollywood | 1990-07-06 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 1 | Into the Woods | 1991-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 2 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1991-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 3 | Three Hotels | 1991-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 4 | The Sunset Gang | 1991-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 5 | Hot Summer Winds | 1991-05-22 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 6 | The Hollow Boy | 1991-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 1 | Fool's Fire | 1992-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 2 | Tales from Hollywood | 1992-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 3 | Tru | 1992-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 4 | Fires in the Mirror | 1993-04-28 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 5 | In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway | 1993-06-11 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 6 | La Carpa | 1993-06-16 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 7 | Porgy and Bess | 1993-10-06 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 8 | Tales of the City | 1993-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 9 | Hallelujah | 1993-12-22 | 60 min |
