Season 4 (1984)
Episodes: 22
Star Cast:
Episodes List
Ep.1 Testament
Air Date: 1984-11-26
Ep.2 A Matter of Principle
Air Date: 1984-12-03
Ep.3 Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Air Date: 1984-12-10
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 after years of absence. He chose to work in the Deep South and to collaborate with a crew of mixed races. The film first aired on PBS on December 10, 1984 and as part of PBS's American Playhouse anthology television series in the following year. It was released on video under the title Half Slave, Half Free.
Ep.4 Tomorrow
Air Date: 1984-12-17
Ep.5 Go Tell It On the Mountain
Air Date: 1985-01-14
Ep.6 Noon Wine
Air Date: 1985-01-21
Ep.7 The Joy That Kills
Air Date: 1985-01-28
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.
Ep.8 Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Air Date: 1985-02-04
Ep.9 The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski
Air Date: 1985-02-11
Ep.10 Some Men Need Help
Air Date: 1985-02-18
Ep.11 Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Air Date: 1985-02-25
Ep.12 Breakfast with Les and Bess
Air Date: 1985-03-11
Ep.13 Nightsongs
Air Date: 1985-04-15
Ep.14 Under the Biltmore Clock
Air Date: 1985-04-25
F. Scott Fitzgerald's comedy of a stylish young flapper (Sean Young) who chooses a husband (Lenny Von Dohlen), but finds she can't compete with his family.
Ep.15 Displaced Person
Air Date: 1985-05-06
Ep.16 The Europeans
Air Date: 1985-05-15
Ep.17 El Norte
Air Date: 1985-05-20
Ep.18 Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part I
Air Date: 1985-05-27
Ep.19 Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part II
Air Date: 1985-06-03
Ep.20 Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part III
Air Date: 1985-06-10
Ep.21 Paper Angels
Air Date: 1985-06-15