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Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox, Tom Alger
references:
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Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)
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The episodes listed below first aired on "Desilu Playhouse" (between
1-July-1960 and 26-Aug-1960)
and were rerun on "Kraft
Mystery Theatre" (NBC Summer 1962)
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[--] Desilu Playhouse?: DR. KATE
1960 (original airdate not known)
Guest Cast:
Jane Wyman ......... Dr. Kate
Bobby Buntrock ..... Buddy
Willard Parker ..... Bill
Karen Lee .......... Sally
Rhys Williams ...... Torphy
Johnny Eimen ....... Tommy
Stanja Lowe ........ Lucy
Synopsis:
A country doctor takes over the rearing of two homeless children: one deaf and
the other abnormally hostile. [RF]
[--] Desilu Playhouse? / Kraft Mystery Theatre: #2.1: IN CLOSE PURSUIT
1960 (original airdate not known)
Guest Cast:
Jan Sterling
William Windom ..... Fuller
Beverly Garland .... Loise
Robert Fortier ..... Calvin
Maxine Stuart ...... Jane
Dan Tobin .......... Walter
John Milford ....... Pagano
Synopsis:
A society woman turns to murder when her husband is unfaithful. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A neurotic socialite, with a compulsion to help people, is driven
to murder when she learns that her husband is in love with a waitress. [RF]
[--] Desilu Playhouse? / Kraft Mystery Theatre: #2.2: DEATH OF A DREAM
1960 (original airdate not known)
written by Paul Savage
directed by Robert Altman
Guest Cast:
Robert Vaughn
Dianne Foster ...... Marge
Murvyn Vye ......... Vieta
Dean Harens ........ Alex
Susan Oakes ........ Beedy
Flip Mark .......... Bud
Sherwood Price ..... Stanley
Synopsis:
A woman finds that her husband is a thief. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A thief on the run returns to the wife he ran out on years before. [RF]
[--] Desilu Playhouse? / Kraft Mystery Theatre: #2.4 DEAD ON NINE
1960 (original airdate not known)
written by William Templeton
from a play by Jack Popplewell
directed by William Claxton
Guest Cast:
Louis Hayward
Signe Hasso ........ Diana
Maxwell Reed ....... Tom
Audrey Dalton ...... Marion
Leo G. Carroll ..... Farrow
Synopsis:
A husband and wife tired of each other, both decide on
murder as a way out. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
With the help of an adoring secretary, a man plans to murder
his wife unaware that the intended victim and her lover are plotting to kill
him. [RF]
[--] Desilu Playhouse? / Kraft Mystery Theatre: #2.6: NIGHT PANIC
1960 (original airdate not known) (rerun 08Feb63)
script by Peg and Lou Shaw
story by A.A. Roberts
directed by Richard Kinon
Guest Cast:
John Ericson ....... Dick
Cloris Leachman .... Joan Lindsay
Marion Ross ........ Elaine
Gordon Jones ....... Tucker
S. John Launer ..... Underhill
Synopsis 1:
A girl is driven to hysteria by anonymous phone calls. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
Office worker Joan Lindsay is getting threatening phone calls. Frightened, she
turns
to a friend for help - then begins to suspect that he may be the guilty party. [RF]
Synopsis 3:
A young woman, terrified by threatening phone calls, appeals to
a new friend for help-then begins to suspect that he is the guilty party. [RF]
[--] Desilu Playhouse? / Kraft Mystery Theatre: #2.8: THE SOUND OF MURDER
1960 (original airdate not known)
written by William Templeton
directed by Robert Altman
Guest Cast:
Liam Redmond ....... Gates
Alex Davion ........ Oliver
Antoinette Bower ... Helen
Ronald Long ........ Eldridge
Hedley Mattingly ... Prescott
Ben Wright ......... Harris
Synopsis:
A student's future is threatened by blackmail. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A brilliant ornithology student, competing for a research grant,
is menaced by another man who covets the prize. [RF]
[--] Desilu Playhouse? / Kraft Mystery Theatre: #2.10 CRY RUIN
1960 (original airdate not known)
written by John Kneubuhl and John Mantley
directed by Paul Stanley
Guest Cast:
Keir Dullea
Larry Gates ........ Dryden
Richard Anderson ... Hal
Denver Pyle ........ Lister
Robert F. Simon .... March
Ellen McRae ........ Greta (aka Ellen Burstyn)
Synopsis:
The son of a politician turns to violence. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
An emotionally unstable young man, resentful of his father's
neglect, confesses to a murder which never occurred. [RF]
[--] Desilu Playhouse? / Kraft Mystery Theatre: #2.12: THE PROBLEM IN CELL 13
1960 (original airdate not known)
written by A.A. Roberts
directed by Richard Kinon
Guest Cast:
Claude Dauphin ..... Lowell
Everett Sloane ..... Gough
June Walker ........ Mrs. Lowell
Phillip Pine ....... Hatch
Evelyn Ward ........ Sabrina
Joseph Ruskin ...... Slatter
Vic Perrin ......... Ballard
Synopsis:
A scientist takes a bet that he can escape from a maximum security prison. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A scientist sets out to prove that he can escape from a maximum-security prison
cell within five days. [RF]
[--] Desilu Playhouse? / Kraft Mystery Theatre: #2.14 CHANGE OF HEART
1960 (original airdate not known)
written by David J. Goodman
directed by Richard Kinon
Guest Cast:
Robert Middleton
Evans Evans ........ Cora
Dick Sargent ....... Sprague
Donald May ......... Wood
Karl Swenson ....... Lawson
Russ Conway ........ Inspector
Synopsis:
A blind criminologist solves a murder. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A young woman receives help from a blind criminologist
when she discovers that her fiance plans to kill her father. [RF]
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