Golden Age of Hollywood Book Club discussion

Back in the day it was routine to find classic Hollywood or British actors performing on PBS.

I can't even remember them all; but this thread is a place I'd like to list what titles do come to mind.

Typical series were:

~ Great Performances
~ American Playhouse
~ American Masters
~ Masterpiece Theater (host: Alistair Cooke)
~ Mystery! (host: Vincent Price)

I don't quite consider all this to be the sickening 'network television' as we ordinarily know it in the USA; and this is not a thread for TV-popcult-chat.

PBS was really something extraordinary at the time. The stuff you'd find there (for free, 'over the airwaves') was something "inbetween".

Not exactly movies; not exactly Broadway or West End, not exactly TV either.

Worth a little documentation.

To kick this off ...these are the foist titles that I can recollect...


Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Alec Guinness, Ian Bannen, Ian Richardson, Alexander Knox
Smiley's People - Alec Guinness, Patrick Stewart
Dracula - Louis Jordan (this is my all-time favorite version of Stoker)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Lange, Rip Torn (better than Paul & Liz)
On Approval - Jeremy Brett
Sweet Talk - Treat Williams
Brideshead Revisited - Jeremy Irons, Lawrence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Diana Quick, Anthony Andrews, John Gielgud, Brian Blessed
The Heat of the Day - Michael York
All My Sons - James Whitmore
Death of a Salesman - Dustin Hoffman
Reilly: Ace of Spies - Sam Neill
A Flash of Green - Richard Jordan
The Gin Game - Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn
Doctor Fischer of Geneva - James Mason
Painting Churches - Donald Moffat
Game, Set, & Match - Ian Holm
The Elder Statesman Ralph Richardson
Prospero's Books - John Gielgud