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A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Actors, comedians and artists get together to perform short, hilarious skits on current, intelligent and at times ridiculous topics.

A retired Intelligence Agent turned private detective helps various threatened clients to equalize the odds.

An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in his city.

A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-convict husband shows up.

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.

A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.

Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.

In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York City's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but she has difficulty assimilating.

Four Jewish intellectuals carpool to the funeral of their old friend Leslie Braverman, who died suddenly at age 41.

Based on the novel by Belva Plain, covering a time span from 1909 to 1959. The story begins in New York's Lower East Side with the arrival of Polish-Jewish immigrant Anna (Lesley Ann Warren). At first employed as a humble seamstress, Anna is whisked into a whole new world when she becomes the wife of the enterprising Joseph Friedman (Armand Assante), who eventually becomes a wealthy Westchester contractor. Even so, Anna's heart belongs to Paul Lerner (Ian McShane), the son of the prosperous Fifth Avenue family which employs her relatives. In 1918, Anna gives birth to Paul's daughter, allowing Joseph to believe that he is the father. The secret surrounding Anna's child will lead to a daunting and frequently heartbreaking chain of events, culminating decades later in the newly formed state of Israel, where Anna's grandson Eric hopes to "find himself" -- and ends up finding more than he bargained for.

A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.

Peter runs a New York tour. Christine is a recently widowed art gallery owner, and she falls in love with him. But, her 10-year-old son loves her way too much and has an unhealthy and pathological attachment to his mother.

A Jewish man who owns a Brooklyn deli asks his domineering uncle for a loan so he can buy his dream restaurant in Manhattan, but the uncle demands that he give up his Gentile girlfriend even though she's one of the few sources of stability in his somewhat chaotic life.

Barney (Jack Klugman) owns the last working farm in Manhattan. For various reasons, city officials have decided to close it down. A special event is planned to raise awareness and money to keep it running. Based on a true story, the original title of this film was P.O.N.Y. (a double entendre alluding to a metaphoric old pony that gave kids pony rides at the farm and to Poor Old New York - the heartless city that would close down a long standing and beloved neighborhood institution).

The cast of a horror film go out for dinner with their director one night and they all exchange horror stories.

Two wealthy, independent young people meet in Venice and fall in love, but their affair takes a tragic turn as the young woman becomes hooked on heroin.

A combined Emergency Services of the FDNY, NYPD and Emergency Medical Service units in New York City called the Harlem Eastside Life-saving Program, or H.E.L.P.

From Elie Wiesel, one of the most important voices of our time, comes Zalmen or the Madness of God. Set in post-Stalinist Russia in a synagogue on the eve of an appearance by a Western acting troupe, Zalmen has been described as a cry of anguish about the collective guilt of €œthe silent.€ The Play was written after Wiesel's visit to the Soviet Union in 1965. Directed by Peter Levin and Alan Schneider, the play also concerns man's need for tradition as well as the futility of gestures.

Now an insurance adjuster, former C.I.A. agent John Pope becomes the target of both Mafia and C.I.A. hitmen. Pope is the last of the secret agents who can ruin a money laundering collaboration between a corrupt agency leader (Kirkpatrick) and a Mafia boss (Matera).

An artist is plagued by nightmares of a love triangle and murder. A psychic says the dream figure is his brother, a "troubled soul" from an ancient past life. Nearly born as his twin but miscarried, this past life rival now breaks through in nightmares in attempt to repeat history.

The 13-year-old son of a secular Jewish couple discovers Judaism, wants to have a bar-mitzvah, and studies for it at a small sympathetic unaffiliated synagogue, against his parents' wishes. Well-done.

Esther, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.