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$weepstake$

  • 1979
  • Ended
  • Drama
  • ~1h / ep
  • 1 season

An anthology depicting the lives of people who hope to win a large amount of money in a sweepstakes and what happens after they win — or do not win — the money.

Latest: Season 1 · 1979

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  1. E1. Lynn and Grover and Joey

    Jan 26, 1979 · 90m

    This week's ticker buyers are a man who just got out of jail and is on probation needs to try and find a legitimate job, a woman who's separated from her husband who has a girlfriend and a dog whose owner's relatives try to get a piece of what he wins.

  2. E2. Dewey and Harold and Sarah and Maggie

    Feb 2, 1979 · 60m

    A blind girl faces expensive eye surgery. Another girl seeks her long-lost father. An artist whose paintings are painted on the wall of his own apartment building will be lost if the building is demolished.

  3. E3. Vince, Pete and Patsy, Jessica and Rodney

    Feb 9, 1979 · 60m

    A circus performer, an unhappily married couple plus a pickpocket and his victim all see a winning lottery ticket as a solution to their problems.

  4. E4. Billy, Wally and Ludmilla, and Theodore

    Feb 16, 1979 · 60m

    A wealthy man shuns his overly philanthropic nephew when the latter has given away his money to the poor.

  5. E5. Episode 5

    Feb 23, 1979 · 60m

  6. E6. Roscoe, Elizabeth, and the M.C.

    Mar 2, 1979 · 60m

    Roscoe, a school bus driver who wants to go into business for himself, is a finalist. 12-year-old Elizabeth wants to make her parents' dreams come true.

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