Playhouse 90 Season 4, Episode 14: Alas, Babylon

1

Target for Three

Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.

90 min

2

The Sounds of Eden

Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.

90 min

3

Misalliance

A group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend engage in an exploration of their varied romantic entanglements.

90 min

4

The Hidden Image

A journalist out to expose political corruption finds his family is in danger.

90 min

5

The Grey Nurse Said Nothing

In Australia, a landowner is arrested for murder - but where's the body?

90 min

6

The Tunnel

In the Civil War, a tunnel is dug under Confederate lines, and filled with explosives.

90 min

7

The Silver Whistle

The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.

90 min

8

John Brown's Raid

The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.

90 min

9

A Dream of Treason

A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.

90 min

10

To the Sound of Trumpets

In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naïve and romanticized attitude to war.

90 min

11

The Cruel Day

Violence and brutality greet a French Army captain when he arrives in Algeria to assume command of a remote outpost. He is appalled by the savage massacre of an Algerian family by the Rebels. When the French take a prisoner who knows the names of Rebel leaders, the captain is told that torture is the only way to make him talk. Then the captain meets the prisoner - a handsome, intelligent teenage boy.

90 min

12

Tomorrow

Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes her in and cares for her, eventually falling in love with her.

90 min

13

The Hiding Place

In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his cellar, neglecting to tell them when the war ends.

90 min

14

Alas, Babylon

Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.

90 min

15

Journey to the Day

Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.

90 min

16

The Shape of the River

Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.

90 min

17

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.

90 min