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, Judd Hirsch and Richard Jenkins. 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 + Award Year Category Nominee(s) Result Cannes Film Festival 1978 (for Alambrista!) Peabody Awards 1977 — Visions Primetime Emmy Awards 1977 Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequence (for The Gardener's Son) Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction , Leard Davis (for Gold Watch) Outstanding Achievement in Video Tape Editing for a Series (for The War Widow) 1978 Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction , Leard Davis (for You Can Run But You Can't Hide)
References
Sources
External links
Visions at CVTA with list of episodes