The BEST episodes of Great Performances season 3
Every episode of Great Performances season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Great Performances season 3!
Great Performances, a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on PBS since 1972. The show is produced by WNET in New York City. It is one of the longest running performing arts anthologies on television, second only to Hallmark Hall of Fame. Great Performances presents concerts, ballet, opera, an occasional documentary, and plays. The series has also won many television awards, including an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an Image Award, with nods from the Directors Guild of America and the Cinema Audio Society.
#2 - Berlin Philharmonic: Herbert von Karajan
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/13/1974
Watch Now:Apple TV#4 - Zalmen, or The Madness of God
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/8/1975
Joseph Wiseman stars in Elie Wiesel's drama set in post-Stalinist Russia. (THEATER IN AMERICA)
Watch Now:Apple TV#5 - The Seagull
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/1975
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin (Frank Langella), an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
#6 - Brother To Dragons
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/19/1975
#7 - Forget-Me-Not Lane
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/12/1975
#8 - Pagliacci
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/19/1975
#9 - The School For Scandal
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/2/1975
#10 - Rules of the Game
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/30/1975
The main characters are an impulsive young woman, Silvia Gala (Joan Van Ark), the lover she exasperates (David Dukes) and her cynical, sneering spouse, Leone (John McMartin). The husband's apathetic attitude is that life is a game played by arbitrary rules, and his role is that of an unemotional observer. His philosophy is severely put to the test when his wife draws him into a duel with a nobleman who drunkenly accosted her.