Hollywood Television Theatre

Law student Paul Cunningham arrives for his first day at a job typing advertisements where he meets supervising typist Miss Sylvia Payton, a day evolves fragmentedly showing many days of their relationship, indicated by costume changes for flashforwards and flashbacks as they learn more about each other and hint on and off about romance, despite the fact that Paul is married with children.

A pair of Peoria matrons set up competing lemonade stands by the highway which they have spiked with alcohol. Neither sells anything but they sample each other's wares and pass the time talking of their families.

A simple play about a retired gentleman (Ned Glass), set in his ways and very proud that he has reached an age that he can lord it over those whom he feels "under'" him. He is waited upon by an elderly waiter at his favorite restaurant (Sam Jaffe) and he, as is his way, treats his server as his underling. But something happens between the two. Slowly, as the two exchange life-stories, the retired gentleman realizes the emptiness of his life.

Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of equally well-to-do African American buyers from Harlem. Fielder Cook directs this Broadway staging of playwright Arkady Leokum's exploration of lingering racial prejudice in 1970s America.

"The Marriage" and "The Boor"

Just before the Salem witch trials, an embittered old woman, who's learned witchcraft, and brings a scarecrow to life, as part of her revenge on the judge who was once her lover.

special shown before a repeat of Beginning to End)

Water Matthau heads the cast of this television re-creation of Clifford Odet's 1935 Broadway play-the full length work performed on the commercial stage by the legendary Group Theatre. This portrait of a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement perfectly captures the spirit of the depression years, and is suffused with details of character and place that combine to be affecting even now. The Bergers burdened by fanatical difficulties have taken in a boarder - Moe Axelrod "Mathew Matthau"-who lost a leg in World War I. Cynical and outspoken, Moe adds a spark to the somewhat accepting lives of the Bergers. The family fights to survive on sixteen dollars a week while the intellectual, Marxist leaning grandfather "brilliantly played by famed Yiddish theatre star, Leo Fuchs" tries futilely to spur his family to action with the junction, "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust." -Isaiah 26:19