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Season 6 • Episode 5 • A Mistaken Charity

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American Playhouse Season 6, Episode 5: A Mistaken Charity

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Episodes

17 episodes
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All My Sons

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2

The Lawrenceville Stories 1: The Prodigious Hickey

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3

The Wide Net

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4

Smooth Talk

5

A Mistaken Charity

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6

Eleanor: In Her Own Words

60 min
7

The Innocents Abroad

60 min
8

Story of a Marriage (1)

9

Story of a Marriage (2)

10

Story of a Marriage (3)

11

A Case of Libel

12

Charley's Aunt

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

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13

Gal Young 'Un

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14

The House of Blue Leaves

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 ...

60 min
15

Blue Window

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.

60 min
16

Dottie

60 min
17

Waiting for the Moon

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.

60 min