Episodes List

Ep.1 All My Sons

Air Date: 1987-01-19

Ep.2 The Lawrenceville Stories 1: The Prodigious Hickey

Air Date: 1987-01-26

Ep.3 The Wide Net

Air Date: 1987-02-02

Ep.4 Smooth Talk

Air Date: 1987-02-09

Ep.5 A Mistaken Charity

Air Date: 1987-02-16

Ep.6 Eleanor: In Her Own Words

Air Date: 1987-03-09

Ep.7 The Innocents Abroad

Air Date: 1987-03-23

Ep.8 Story of a Marriage (1)

Air Date: 1987-04-06

Ep.9 Story of a Marriage (2)

Air Date: 1987-04-13

Ep.10 Story of a Marriage (3)

Air Date: 1987-04-13

Ep.11 A Case of Libel

Air Date: 1987-05-04

Ep.12 Charley's Aunt

Air Date: 1987-05-11

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney. - Written by Ed

Ep.13 Gal Young 'Un

Air Date: 1987-05-18

Ep.14 The House of Blue Leaves

Air Date: 1987-05-25

Zoo attendant Artie Shaughnessy dreams of being a successful songwriter. What his mistress, Bunny Flingus, who lives downstairs from his Queens apartment won't tell him -- and what his insane wife, Bananas, tries to get through to him -- is that Artie's songs stink. On Oct. 4, 1965, the day Pope Paul visits New York City, Bunny convinces Artie to call his old school buddy Billy Einhorn, a famous film director from Los Angeles, to finagle a job writing music for Billy's movies. (After all, Bunny feels that with the Pope here, there must be "miracles in the air.") But ...

Ep.15 Blue Window

Air Date: 1987-06-01

In an affluent area of downtown New York City, a Sunday evening dinner party is taking place. Hosted by Libby, an insecure thirty-something widow who lost her husband in an unfortunate accident, her guest of honor is downstairs neighbor Alice, a successful novelist, and Alice's lesbian lover, Boo, a family therapist. The other guests are Griever, Libby's best friend from group therapy; Norbert, Libby's gentle skydiving instructor; Tom, an old high-school boyfriend of Libby's now working as a jazz musician and composer, and Emily, Tom's current live-in girlfriend.

Ep.16 Dottie

Air Date: 1987-06-08

Ep.17 Waiting for the Moon

Air Date: 1987-06-15

Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.