Visions (TV series)
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Genre | Anthology |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Production company | KCET |
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Original network | PBS |
Original release | 1980 |
Visions is a 90-minute American television weekly anthology series that aired from 1976 to 1978. It was produced by KCET in Los Angeles[1] and televised nationally on PBS. It concentrated on the works of mostly new and some prominent writers, including Cormac McCarthy, Marsha Norman, Jean Shepherd, Luis Valdez, and Robert M. Young. Each episode was written by a different writer and starred a different cast.
Among its stars were Tyne Daly, Charles Durning, Brad Dourif, Morgan Freeman, Carol Kane, and Judd Hirsch. Its directors included Maya Angelou, Richard Pearce, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Paul Bogart, and Gordon Davidson.
Episodes included The War Widow and El Corrido.
It won one prime-time Emmy Award and was nominated for two others.
References[]
- ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 887. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
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Categories:
- Primetime Emmy Award winners
- 1976 American television series debuts
- 1980 American television series endings
- 1970s American anthology television series
- 1980s American anthology television series
- PBS original programming
- United States non-fiction television series stubs