The Play of the Week

The Iceman Cometh (1) (2x8)

Air date: Nov 14, 1960

The spotlight is on the failed lives, empty hopes, and perpetual pipe dreams of an assortment of down-and-out denizens of a seedy saloon, set in New York in 1912. Their sad, but complacent existences are rattled when Hickey arrives for his annual bender a changed man - forswearing alcohol and preaching a deliverance from ""the lie of the pipe dream.""