I am planning an imaginary TV show that no one would actually watch except for literature lovers like me My idea: an hour-long TV show where the episodes are adaptions of a short story. Would feature lots of different short stories, one per episode. Ones with recurring characters would actually be filmed around the same time but not necessarily aired near each other.

Season One:

• The Birds (Du Maurier)
• Benito Cereno (Melville)
• A Good Man is Hard to Find (O'Connor)
• Leave It to Jeeves (Wodehouse)
• Witness for the Prosecution (Christie)
• The Orator (Chekhov)
• The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
• The Purloined Letter (Poe)
• Lily Daw and the Three Ladies (Welty)
• Green Tea (Le Fanu)
• The Yellow Wallpaper (Gilman)
• 12
• 13
• 14

Season Two:

• The Fall of the House of Usher (Poe)
• 2
• The Red-Headed League (Conan Doyle)
• 4
• Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest (Wodehouse)
• 6
• 7
• 8
• Three Blind Mice (Christie)
• 10
• A Transgression (Chekhov)
• 12
• The Birthmark (Hawthorne)
• 14

Season Three:

• 1
• The Five Orange Pips (Conan Doyle)
• The Adventure on the Split Infinitive (Wodehouse)
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• A Rose for Emily (Faulkner)
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg (Wodehouse)