Six Characters in Search of an Author

Andy Griffith - in a brilliant departure from his television persona as a country sheriff - stars in Luigi Pirandello's modern classic, along with Academy Award-winner John Houseman (The Paper Chase). A ground breaking work which has exerted a considerable influence on 20th Century drama, Six Characters is directed by Stacy Keach, who has transposed the play's traditional theatrical setting to a television studio. As a group of actors prepare for a rehearsal of another Pirandello play - The Rules of the Game - the television monitors in the control booth give way to an electrical interference which inexplicably replaces the images of the actors with the images of six mysterious strangers.