American Playhouse: Season 10
Season 10 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of American Playhouse Season 9.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 10 Progress Shield
Into the Woods
Mar 15, 1991 · 151 min
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
The Grapes of Wrath
Mar 22, 1991 · 142 min
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the n
Three Hotels
Mar 29, 1991 · 60 min
An American couple, Kenneth and Barbara Hoyle, reflect on their lives as players in international business, set in hotel rooms in Morocco, the Virgin Islands, and Oaxaca, Mexico.
The Sunset Gang
Apr 5, 1991 · 180 min
Three stories about the Jewish elderly in Florida: in 'Yiddish', a man and a woman, both married to others, form a bond through their native language; in 'The Detective', a married
Signs of Life
Apr 26, 1991 · 90 min
The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.
The End of a Sentence
May 3, 1991 · 60 min
Sentenced to community service in a prison, an English professor teaches creative writing to an inmate.
O Pioneers!
May 15, 1991 · 99 min
A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning for her childhood love to retur
Triple Play II
May 21, 1991 · 75 min
Three more short films: in 'Peacemaker', a 1950s father helps his 11-year-old son overcome his fear of the A-bomb; in 'The Price of Life', the hours of your life are a currency you
Hot Summer Winds
May 22, 1991 · 90 min
A look at the domestic tension between an illiterate Japanese immigrant farmer and his educated wife in 1930s California.
The Plot Against Harry
May 31, 1991 · 81 min
Deadpan, small-time Kosher Nostra mobster Harry Plotnick goes meshugga when he gets into the catering biz with his ex-brother-in-law.
Darrow
Jun 7, 1991 · 101 min
American lawyer Clarence Darrow evolves from a corporate attorney to a champion of the underdog, defending labor leaders like Eugene V. Debs and later taking on high-profile cases
The Hollow Boy
Jun 14, 1991 · 55 min
A lonely German boy, whose bigoted parents want him to constantly work in their bakery, finds solace in a close-knit, musically-gifted Jewish family in the apartment across the hal
Misplaced
Jun 28, 1991 · 98 min
The story of strong-minded Polish mother Halina Nowak, who desperately wants her talented son Jacek to have a life in the free world.
A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz
Jul 26, 1991 · 90 min
Explores the complex, passionate, and often tumultuous relationship between the iconic artist and her mentor/husband, a pivotal figure in American modernism.
Longtime Companion
Sep 29, 1991 · 99 min
During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterious 'gay cancer' soon turns int
Metropolitan
Dec 4, 1991 · 99 min
A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to di