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Season 3

Season 3

8.0·January 17, 1984·17 épisodes·20h 10min
Épisodes · 17
E1

The Ghost Writer

Aspiring writer Nathan Zuckerman visits the secluded home of his literary idol, E.I. Lonoff. While there, Zuckerman becomes entangled in the author's complex domestic life and becomes captivated by a mysterious young woman.

1h 18min·Jan 17, 1984
E2

Pudd'nhead Wilson

A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.

1h 30min·Jan 24, 1984
True West
E3

True West

Estranged brothers, screenwriter Austin and drifter Lee, clash while staying at their mother's house in suburban Southern California, leading to a chaotic role reversal that explores themes of identity, family, and the American Dream.

1h 50min·Jan 31, 1984
E4

Nothing But a Man

Railroad laborer Duff Anderson struggles to maintain his dignity and marriage to a preacher's daughter in the racially segregated South.

1h 35min·Feb 7, 1984
Popular Neurotics
E5

Popular Neurotics

Two young urban professionals, Lynne and Murray, meet by happenstance and begin an on-again, off-again relationship in which they struggle to transcend modern-day neuroses concerning courtship.

1h·Feb 14, 1984
E6

The Cafeteria

Esther Mirkin, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.

52min·Feb 21, 1984
E7

Refuge

On a remote island off the coast of Maine, four people attempt to relax but the isolated refuge fails to protect them from their own insecurities and jealousies.

1h 30min·Feb 28, 1984
E8

The Gin Game

Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey reside at a nursing home, and they strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin rummy, and engage in lengthy conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world.

1h·Mar 6, 1984
E9

Haunted (aka Vengeance Is Mine)

A recently divorced woman returns to her dysfunctional Rhode Island family home and gets involved in drama with her neighbors.

1h·Mar 20, 1984
E10

The Killing Floor

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.

1h 58min·Apr 10, 1984
E11

Heartland

Miraculous occurrences happen to people throughout the world every day. God's Miracles presents personal experiences as well as unvarnished scientific and factual evidence, allowing the viewer to draw their own conclusions as to whether it is possible for God to grant miracles.

52min·Apr 17, 1984
E12

City News

The struggles of Tom Domino, publisher and editor of a seemingly doomed, underground newspaper in New York City's East Village are chronicled in this dark comedy.

1h 5min·Apr 24, 1984
E13

Hughie

In the lobby of a small hotel in midtown New York, small-time hustler Erie Smith talks to the hotel's new night clerk Charlie Hughes, lamenting how Smith's luck has worsened since the death of Hughie, Hughes' predecessor.

1h·May 1, 1984
E14

Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

55min·May 7, 1984
E15

Concealed Enemies, Part II: Accusation

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

55min·May 8, 1984
E16

Concealed Enemies, Part III: Investigation

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

55min·May 9, 1984
E17

Concealed Enemies, Part IV: Verdict

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alger Hiss of perjury before a federal grand jury and his resulting imprisonment.

55min·May 9, 1984