Jason Robards – MRQE

Thomas Hart Benton (TV)

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Thomas Hart Benton’s paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people to appreciate.

Hallmark Hall of Fame:: A Doll’s House (TVE)

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A wealthy woman’s attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.

My Antonia (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.

The Iceman Cometh (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope’s 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar’s patrons from their “lying pipe dreams.”

American Playhouse:: Noon Wine (TVE)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A dark tragedy about a farmer’s futile act of homicide that takes place on a small dairy farm in southern Texas during the 1890s. Sam Peckinpah directed this original adaptation of the Katherine Anne Porter novel for ABC, and the project became an hour-long presentation for ABC Stage 67, premiering on Nov. 23, 1966.

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, whose violent films such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs had a telling effect on the cinema of the 1970s and 80s. Those who knew and worked with him, including actor James Coburn, actress Ali MacGraw, his associate Katherine Haber, his cousin Bob Peckinpah, and several screenwriters and producers, examine his life in an attempt to separate the man from the persona. Clips from key films reinforce this detailed discussion of Peckinpah’s art and a fixation on violence that still permeates Hollywood today.

Lincoln (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

The Day After (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town’s residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.

Old Faithful (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A forest ranger is asked by his boss to attract a record-breaking crowd to Yellowstone National Park. Various celebrities are enlisted to help.

The House Without a Christmas Tree (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and refuses due to events from the family’s past.