Hollywood Television Theatre - Season 5
Season 5
Episodes
The Chinese Prime Minister
A famous actress comes to terms with the fascination and disaster of being old.
The Lady's Not for Burning
A soldier tries to convince a clearic to accuse him of witchcraft and hang him instead of a beautiful condemned woman.
For the Use of the Hall
The successes and failures of six individuals on Long Island.
Requiem for a Nun
Set in fictional Jefferson, Miss., the play roots up the events and the motives that precipitated the murder of an infant child by a black servant.
The Ladies of the Corridor
The story of a widowed woman moving into a residence hotel and refusing to be pulled into the cliques of the hotel and petty life adopted by other women without men.
Knuckle
Suspenseful thriller concerns a young man who returns to Los Angeles after an absence of twelve years to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his sister. His search leads him into a web of evasion, corruption, scandal and mystery.
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
The "Chicago Eight" (David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale) were charged with conspiring to incite a riot.
Shakespeare Wallah
Set in the late 1940's, it tells of a struggling troupe of English Shakespearean actors touring the Indian countryside while the "new" India was casting off old English colonial trappings and an unwanted British cultural heritage.
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