The Tyrones as TV Family: O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Primetime

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As part of the 1988 centenary celebration of Eugene O'Neill's birth, PBS aired the made-for-cable television production by Jonathan Miller based on his stage presentation from 1986 of Long Day's Journey Into Night. The other available television version is also British directed, Peter Wood's adaptation of Michael Blakemore's acclaimed production for the National Theatre of Great Britain in 1971 which was first broadcast in the mid-seventies on American commercial television. While neither of these versions demonstrates the visual power of Sidney Lumet's 1962 film version of O'Neill's masterpiece, they exhibit, despite almost opposite styles of performance and mise en scène, the way the …