American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

A group of three criminals on the run from the law, go about terrorizing the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an isolated farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her paralyzed grandfather. After being sexually assaulted by two of the gangsters, she retaliates using an axe and a razor blade.

Two identical twins, who were separated at birth, go on violent killing sprees thirty-five years later on the very same day. They are soon on a deadly path that will bring them face-to-face with each other.

A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.