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English: Advertisement printed in the Los Angeles Times on October 19, 1976, promoting the upcoming October–January episodes of the new PBS anthology television series Visions. The text of the advertisement reads as follows:

"We had visions of producing a sort of off-Broadway television..."
Barbara Schultz
Artistic director of Visions
Produced at KCET-Los Angeles
For the Public Broadcasting Service

            When you tune in to the Visions series this fall on your PBS station, don't expect the expected—the made-for-TV movies or the BBC revisited.

            Expect of Visions an innovative, personal brand of theatre. Visions was conceived as drama that would give young American writers an opportunity to be heard on television and to develop their talents. It's drama that challenges big-time television the way off-Broadway challenges the Broadway stage.

            Each of the Visions productions is unique, the work of a different playwright. They don't look alike or sound alike. What ties them together is that they speak openly and with a new voice about the American experience.

'Visions premieres October 21st with 'Two Brothers,' by Conrad Bromberg. A young doctor's battle against his own mental illness, and the desperate efforts of his older brother to help him.

			Oct. 21 Two Brothers, by Conrad Bromberg
Oct. 28 The War Widow, by Harvey Perr	Nov. 4 El Corrido, by Luis Valdez	Nov. 11 Gold Watch, by Momoko Iko	Nov. 18 Liza's Pioneer Diary, by Nell Cox
Nov. 25 The Great Cherub Knitwear Strike, by Ethel Tyne	Dec. 2 Life Among the Lowly, by Adrian Hall and Richard Cumming	Dec. 9 Pennsylvania Lynch, by David Epstein	Dec. 16 Scenes from the Middle Class, Betty Patrick/David Trainer
Dec. 23 The Phantom of the Open Hearth, by Jean Shepherd	Dec. 30 The Tapestry and Circles, by Alexis De Veaux	Jan. 6 The Gardener's Son, by Cormac McCarthy	Jan. 13 Prison Game, by Susan Yankowitz

            We hope you'll watch all the Visions productions and enjoy them. In another departure from television, we're inviting you to participate by becoming our critics.

Visions – It's off-Broadway television.

You'll be seeing coupons like this on the television pages of many newspapers during the Visions series. Please use the space to give us your comments about the production, so we can reprint the most representative ones.

You be the critic. ✂