Saturday, September 13, 2025

Good to Brilliant: Sitcoms: TRYING TIMES (a sitcom anthology series, PBS, 1987-89)

Trying Times (co-produced with CBC, which ran these as episodes of a previously-extant anthology series called Lies from Lotus Land)

103: "Get a Job" (1987) starring Steven Wright, Catherine O'Hara and Tim Matheson; written by Earl Pomerantz; directed by Allen Goldstein

"The Visit" (1987) starring Julie Hagerty, Jeff Daniels, Swoosie Kurtz; written by Christopher Durang; directed by Alan Arkin. Apparently ?later staged elsewhere as "Wanda's Visit"

"The Boss" (1989) starring Jean Stapleton, Alan Arkin & Corey Feldman; written by Marilyn Suzanne Miller; directed by Arkin 

"The Hit List" (1989) starring Peter Riegert and Geena Davis; written by A. R. Gurney; directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg

"Hunger Chic" (1989); starring Carrie Fisher, Danitra Vance, Griffin Dunne; written by George C. Wolfe; directed by Buck Henry.
A period of distortion, leading to less than a minute's drop-out, about five minutes in, but otherwise intact.

"A Family Tree" (1987; the PBS pilot episode); starring Rosanna Arquette, Hope Lange, John Stockwell, David Byrne; written by Beth Henley and Budge Threlkeld; directed by Jonathan Demme. Uploaded, 15 years ago, in 3 parts: part 1

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