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Visions
Genre	Anthology drama
Creative director	Barbara Schultz
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	32
Production
Executive producer	Barbara Schultz
Running time	90–120 minutes
Production company	KCET
Original release
Network	PBS
Release	October 21, 1976 (1976-10-21) – January 26, 1980 (1980-01-26)

Visions is a 90-minute American television weekly anthology series that aired from 1976 to 1978. It was produced by KCET in Los Angeles and televised nationally on PBS. It concentrated on the works of mostly new and some prominent writers, including Cormac McCarthy (The Gardener's Son), 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 primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for three others.

Episodes

Episode list and credits adapted from The Arts on Television, 1976–1990: Fifteen Years of Cultural Programming (1991).

Series overview

Season 1 (1976–77)

Season 2 (1977)

Season 3 (1978–1980)

Awards

References

1. McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 887. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
2. Krafft 1991, pp. 100–104.
3. Smith 1978b, p. 16.
4. Jones 1977, p. 9-B.
5. ^ Margulies 1977, p. 16.
6. Brown 1977, p. 26.
7. Smith 1978a, p. 32.

Sources

• Cook, Bruce (October 1976). "The Writer Unblocked". American Film. II (1). Washington, D.C.: American Film Institute: 26–30 – via the Internet Archive. (registration required)
• Jones, Paul (April 25, 1977). "Peabody Awards Cite Winners". The Atlanta Constitution. Vol. 109, no. 234. p. 9-B – via Newspapers.com. (subscription required)
• Krafft, Rebecca, ed. (Fall 1991). "Visions". The Arts on Television, 1976–1990: Fifteen Years of Cultural Programming. Washington, D.C.: Media Arts: Film/Radio Television Program, National Endowment for the Arts. pp. 100–104. ISBN 978-0-16-035926-2. Retrieved August 3, 2023 – via Google Books. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• Margulies, Lee (August 4, 1977). "'Roots' Tops Nominations at Emmy Rerun". View – Part IV. Los Angeles Times. Vol. XCVI, no. 244. Los Angeles. pp. 1, 15–16 . Retrieved August 21, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. (subscription required)
• Brown, James (September 11, 1977). "'Eleanor and Franklin' Wins Television Honors". Part I. Los Angeles Times. Vol. XCVI, no. 282. Los Angeles. pp. 3, 26 . Retrieved September 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. (subscription required)
• Smith, Cecil (August 11, 1978a). "NBC Leads in Emmy Nominations". View – Part IV. Los Angeles Times. Vol. XCVII, no. 251. Los Angeles. pp. 1, 29–30, 32 . Retrieved September 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. (subscription required)
• ——— (October 9, 1978b). "A Living Black Cowboy in 'Visions'". View – Part IV. Los Angeles Times. Vol. XCVII, no. 310. Los Angeles. pp. 1, 16 . Retrieved September 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. (subscription required)

External links

• Visions at IMDb
• Visions at CVTA with list of episodes

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